Name: Saotome Wakaba
Kanji: 早乙女 わかば
Current Troupe: n/a
Role: Musumeyaku
Status: Retired

Nickname: Wakaba, Ayako
Height: 162 cm
Birthday: May 30th
Blood Type: A
Hometown: Kobe
Favorite Food: cream puffs, pasta
Favorite Flower: rose
Favorite Colors: light blue
Hobbies: shopping
Collections: beauty products from Laudrée
Special Talent: swimming
Origin of Stage Name: thought of it with her family and a teacher
Favorite Role: Marie-Antoinette from Jean-Louis Fargeon, Flaemmchen from Grand Hotel
Would Like to Try Playing: various roles

Debut: 2008 (94th Class) Me and My Girl
Troupe History:
2014 - 2018 Moon Troupe
2008 - 2014 Star Troupe


2018: Company / Baddy, Ariake Sara
2017: The Seven of the House of God (Senka / Moon - Bow Hall), Robin White
2017: All for One, Marie Louise
2017: Shigure Hill Road in Nagasaki / Carousel Rondo (Hakataza), Horen
2017: Grand Hotel / Carousel Rondo, Frida Flaemmchen (double cast with Umino Mitsuki)
2016: The Legend of King Arthur (Bunkyo Civic / Drama City), Leia
2016: Nobunaga / Forever Love!!, Nene
2016: Passion -Jose and Carmen- / Apasionado!! III (National Tour), Micaela
2015-16: Manon / Golden Jazz, Caroline De Leroy
2015: Dragon Night!! (Drama City & Bunkyo Civic Hall)
2015: 1789: The Lovers of Bastille, Olympe (double cast with Umino Mitsuki)
2015: Bandito (Bow Hall / Nippon Seinenkan), Amelia di Vallelunga (musumeyaku lead)
2014: Puck / Crystal Takarazuka, Tracy
2014: The Kingdom (Nippon Seinenkan / Drama City), Sasha (double musumeyaku lead with Umino Mitsuki)
2014: Chapter Two (Nippon Seinenkan), Faye Medwick
2014: Napoléon, the Man Who Never Sleeps, Caroline
2013: Chapter Two (Bow), Faye Medwick
2013: Romeo & Juliette
2013: Takarazuka Japonisme / The Bandit Chu Liuxiang Side Story / Etoile de Takarazuka (Chunichi / Taiwan Tour), Song Tian'er
2012-13: Takarazuka Japonisme / A Second Fortuitous Meeting 2nd / Etoile de Takarazuka, Colette
2012: Jean-Louis Fargeon (Bow Hall / Nippon Seinenkan), Marie-Antoinette (musumeyaku lead)
2012: Danza Serenata / Celebrity, Rita
2012: Reon!! (Drama City)
2011-12: Ocean's 11
2011: Lancelot (Bow Hall), Guinevere (musumeyaku lead)
2011: Nova Bossa Nova / A Second Fortuitous Meeting, Colette
2011: Too Short a Time to Fall in Love / Love Potion II (Chunichi), Dolly McCormick
2010: Takarazuka Floral Dance Scrolls / An Officer and a Gentleman
2010: Romeo & Juliette (Umeda / Hakataza)
2010: Passion: Jose and Carmen / BOLERO (National Tour), Conchita
2010: The Treasure Sword of Habsburg / Bolero
2009: The Tale of Coimbra (Drama City)
2009: The Legend of the Great King and Four Gods Ver.II
2009: My Dear New Orleans / A Bientôt
2008: The Wind of Buenos Aires (Bow Hall), Waitress
2008: The Scarlet Pimpernel
2008: Me and My Girl (Grand Theater)


2014: Puck, Helen
2014: Napoléon, the Man Who Never Sleeps, Hortense de Beauharnais
2013: Romeo & Juliette
2012-13: A Second Fortuitous Meeting 2nd / Etoile de Takarazuka, Mademoiselle Etoile / Virgo Femme S / Adore Femme
2012: Danza Serenata, Monica (musumeyaku lead)
2011-12: Ocean's 11, Paula
2011: Nova Bossa Nova, Estrela (musumeyaku lead)
2010: An Officer and a Gentleman, Lynette Pomeroy
2010: The Treasure Sword of Habsburg, Adelheid / Maria Theresa (musumeyaku lead)
2009: The Legend of the Great King and Four Gods Ver.II
2009: My Dear New Orleans, Louise (as a child) / Pauline
2008: The Scarlet Pimpernel
2008: Me and My Girl (Grand Theater)


2017: Takarazuka Special 2017 Je t'aime Revue -90th Anniversary of Mon Paris-
2016: Takarazuka Special 2016 ～Music Succession to Next～
2015: Takarazuka Special 2015 - New Century, Next Dream
2014: Takarazuka Special 2014 -Thank you for 100 years-~
2012: Takarazuka Special 2012 - The Stars ~Pre- Pre- Centennial~
2011: Takarazuka Special 2011 - Dreams Built on Tomorrow
2007: Pure, Proper, Beautiful, Chorus

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• The first Takarazuka performance she saw was Snow Troupe's Shun'ou Fu / Let's Jazz.
• Featured in New Generation III.
• Member of the 3rd & 4th groups of Sky Navigators. Harune Aki replaced her after her retirement.