..how is it that I don't have a MiiMai icon yet?  Probably because I'm trying my best not to spoil myself.  Anyway, on the news today, I found out that apparently Noel Gay's grandson went to see tsukigumi's production of MiiMai.  (Noel Gay was the composer for MiiMai ( Read more... )

I've translated the article "Takarazuka Anonymous Research 2006."  Unfortunately the way it's formatted makes it difficult to post to Live Journal.  For the moment I've uploaded it to sendspace, so you can download it as a Word document there. 
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Pari no Sora Yori mo Takaku/Fancy Dance was the first time that I saw tsukigumi live.  Right now I'm watching it on TV.

It was my second live Takarazuka show.  My first was Ryoma-den.  However, in between the two I had bought copies of Tsuki's Elisabeth and Ernest in Love and was budding into a fan.  As my crummy luck would have it, I came down with ( Read more... )

Watching Rika's L./R. concert is leaving almost completely speechless.  Instead, I will sum up my thoughts in the form of a badly written haiku:

"Tsuki, you are awesome
Natsukawa, I miss you!
Much hot Rika crack"

...excuse me, Rika just started singing "Amor Amor."  If anyone is looking for me, I'm busy dying a blissful death at the moment.

ETA: Crap!  ( Read more... )

Tsukigumi starts Me and My Girl tomorrow~~~!  Break a leg, girls ( Read more... )

I'm hurting a lot right now from all of the retirement announcements.  However, some of the doom and gloom that's been posted here...well, it makes me sad.

Tsukigumi is my favorite troupe.  I'm going to miss Taki-san, Erio, Mihoko, and Kitajima Mami like crazy.  I already miss Yuuhi, Eri-san, and Sueko.  But tsukigumi is still my troupe, and that ( Read more... )

It’s always the ones you don’t suspect.  I was worried that it was going to be one of the M girls unexpectedly taking off.  Obviously I’m happy that didn’t happen, but…this sucks just as much as that scenario would have.

And I swear, I am cursed when it comes to background people in tsukigumi.  Every time I start to notice someone they announce ( Read more... )

This is not okay.  I knew something bad was going to happen when MiiMai rehearsals started, I just didn't know what.  This. Is. Not. Okay.

And what the heck will be happening with top musumeyaku for the next few show?!

But...but...Mihoko... *sob*

And if the page gets updated later today to show that anyone else is retiring, I may resort to throwing ( Read more... )

Ueda Keiko really got this one right.  First of all, the whole show just has a sense of well-directed style.  In that way it kind of reminded me of Scout, although obviously that one was very different animal.  It was about the making of a classic Hollywood film while also feeling like one itself.

Ueda-sensei knew when to let things linger just a ( Read more... )

...as if I could really stay away -_-;

If I'm reading this right, tsukigumi's going to be doing a tour to England and Ireland the same way yukigumi did a tour to Austria for Elisabeth.  I was never completely clear of what that consisted of, but it sounded like for the fans it was your general tour of the country plus some special talk show ( Read more... )