English Title: Growing Up / The Love Robbers -Cheerio to Venice of Love-
Japanese Title: たけくらべ / ラブ・ラバー -さよなら恋のベニス-
Romanized Title: Takekurabe / Rabu Rabaa -Sayonara Koi no Benisu-

Troupe: Snow
Year: 1973
Performances: Takarazuka Grand Theater, 11/01 - 12/02
Shinjin Kouen Performances: Takarazuka Grand Theater, 11/17

Growing Up:

Based On: Higuchi Ichiyo's novella "Growing Up" (たけくらべ - Takekurabe)
Author/Director: Shibata Yukihiro
Composer: Irie Kaoru, Terada Takio, Totoki Kazuo
Choreographer: Nishikawa Richou
Conductor (Takarazuka): Totoki Kazuo
Conductor (Tokyo): n/a
Shinjin Kouen Director:

The Love Robbers:

Based On:
Author/Director: Kamogawa Seisaku
Composer: Terada Takio, Nakai Mitsuharu, Yoshizaki Kenji, Hashimoto Kazuaki
Choreographer: Kita Hiroshi, Tsukasa Konomi, Shuri Misao
Conductor (Takarazuka): Hashimoto Kazuaki
Conductor (Tokyo): n/a

Available on DVD: No
Available on Blu-Ray: No
DVD Scene/Music Cuts: n/a

Growing Up
Role	Cast	Shinko Cast
Fujimoto Nobuyuki, eldest son of Ryugeji temple	Migiwa Natsuko	Asami Rei
Midori, younger sister of Yoshiwara's Oiran Omaki	Maya Akemi	Mizuho Mari
Shoutarou, street gang leader. grandson of Tanakaya	Jun Mitsuki	Shou Sumire
Choukichi, street gang leader	Asami Rei	Kamijou Akira (?)
Nakazou, master of the house next to the stationary shop / Onui, Shoutarou's grandmother. Tanakaya pawn shop
Oshou, Nobuyuki's father. chief priest of Ryugeji Temple	Ooji Michio
Omaki, Nobuyuki's mother
Oomaki, Oryou. Midori's sister	Takamiya Sachi	Tamazusa Maki (?)
Okuni, Midori and Oryou's mother
Natsu, mistress of the stationary shop / Narrator
Genshichi, temple man at Ryugeji. former young master of a futon store	Kamijou Akira
Tetsugorou, rickshaw man
Sangorou	Kishi Kaori
Sakichi	Shou Sumire
Ohana, Nobuyuki's sister
Otsuma, new prostitute of the red-light district
The Love Robbers
Role	Cast
Sutania	Maho Shibuki
Junciano	Migiwa Natsuko
Contessa Cashima	Mizushiro Tamamo
Street Cameraman	Ooji Michio
Pigeon Seed Seller	Kishi Kaori
Piccolia	Takamiya Sachi
Yaccina	Maya Akemi
Sister Sies	Shizu Misaki
Cunicore	Uraji Natsuko
Yumiko	Tamazusa Maki
Mickino	Jun Mitsuki
Sumileila	Shou Sumire
Parisian Detective	Asami Rei

Other Cast: Konohana Sakuya, Soga Keiko, Matsumoto Yuri, Hayama Michiko, Oka Chiaki, Jou Hiroe, Mitaka Yuuko, Mai Chizuru, Seto Chihiro, Aoba Mitsuru, Hitomoto Miki, Momo Chikage, Sakura Keiko, Asaki Kozue, Chibana Sachiyo, Kou Hizuru, Katase Chiho, Natsu Teruko, Shouji Michiru, Tama Kazumi, Yashiro Kou, Asaji Mariko, Watari Chihiro, Masaki Keiko, Ban Akira, Juri Misa, Kunizuki Miki, Katsu Sachiyo, Sei Renka, Asami Rei, Waka Chitose, Mario Sachi, Hide Natsuki, Emi Hiroki, Matsukata Rika, Shimizu Akira, Mizuki Ai, Katori Aki, Kana Kasumi, Akira Miyabi, Ako Chinami, Sara Kei, Houjou Hiroki, Kinugasa Akira, Aizono Yuka, Mon Ami, Akane Mayumi, Hanami Kaori, Chibune Yuka, Yuuzuru Mai, Chishiro Kei, Nagiri You, Gojou Aisen, Makina Erika, Fujinami Yuu, Hikari Kaoko, Kumi Mari, Aran Mika, Yutaka Ayumu, Umi Shiraho

WARNING!! MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!

Summary of the novella:
The main characters are children living on the edge of Yoshiwara, the only district of Edo (later Tokyo) that was licensed for prostitution. As they grow up, they find themselves assuming their family professions and losing the freedom they enjoyed as children.



A very hot love story unfurled at Venice, the world-famous sea resort in Italy.

Sutania and Junciano, both gondolers, were childhood pals. They lived in the same room and everything went all right between them as they agreed on almost everything. Except Sutania was liked by womenfolk, perhaps too much, and this caused quarrels which occurred between them almost incessantly.

Junciano had a fiancee, named Yaccina, who was a telephone operator at a hotel. This Yaccina was curt to Junciano ans did not cast him looks of love. Instead she was mad about Sutania, and always chasing after him.

Sutania, for his part, had a girl he had met in Venice some years ago. She then married a baron, but he had died and she was now a widow. She, Piccolia by name, was now back in Venice, where she happened to board Sutania's gondola. Thus the fire of love began to be re-kindled.

On the other hand, Yaccina's aunt, a peddler of peas for cloves, and Junciano's father, a street cameraman, were lovers of oldstanding. Both of them, however, missed an opportunity of making a proposal for wedding. Even so, the old man and woman were still in love with each other, a love in old age.

Sumileila, a student of a school of theology in Venice, happened to come across Sister Sies on the street. A fire of love flared up between them at the moment their eyes met together.

Still on another occasion, Contessa Cashima, a countess from Paris, was attracted by Cunicore, a hotel boy, and the lady began chasing after him day and night.

Mickino and Yumiko, street musicians, were also on good terms with each other, they always had something to quarrel about.

Thus these various couples would vie with each other in love adventures, giving a rise to one trouble after another.

All, however, end up in a happy ending.


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