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Name: Kiryuu Noboru
Kanji: 桐生 のぼる
Current Troupe: n/a
Role: Otokoyaku → Musumeyaku
Status: Retired

Nickname: Mayumi
Height: 163 cm
Birthday: July 11
Blood Type: O
Hometown: Nagata-ku, Kobe, Hyogo
Favorite Food: melon
Favorite Flower: pink roses
Favorite Colors: baby blue
Hobbies: skiing, playing the guitar
Collections: records, handbags
Special Talent: buyou
Origin of Stage Name: modeled after a paulownia tree that grows straight up
Favorite Role: Substitute role as Oscar in The Rose of Versailles, Scarlet in the Gone with the Wind shinjin kouen
Would Like to Try Playing: Billy from Carousel, Hamlet

Debut: 1971 (57th Class) Flowers are Falling, Falling
Troupe History:
1972 - 1983 Star Troupe


1983: The Window of Orpheus, Alraune Von Egenolf
1983: Sing, Sing, Sing! '83 (Bow Hall)
1983: Spring, When the Magnolias Bloom / Love Connection, Sugino Kanae
1982: Aegean Sea Blues / The Storm, Mimi
1982: Lovers' Suicide (Bow Hall), Kamon Tayuu
1982: A Small Flower Has Bloomed / Fascination
1982: The Adventures of Papii from the Planet Mir / Fascination, Pepii
1981: The Samurai's Poem in the Rumbling of the Sea / Crescendo!, Kayo
1981: Beautiful, Secret Seasons / New Fancy Game (National Tour)
1981: Sing, Sing, Sing! (Bow Hall)
1981: A Small Flower Has Bloomed / La Vie en Rose
1980: Beautiful, Secret Seasons / New Fancy Game, Asagiri
1980: Hometown Flower Scrolls / Rose Fantasia (National Tour)
1980: My Song Resounds! -Beautiful, Secret Seasons- / Fancy Game, Asagiri
1980: Adventurers in Love / Festa Festa, Vicky
1980: The Star Antares / Rose Fantasia
1979: The Star Antares / Rose Panic, Georges
1979: The Midnight Sun, My Love
1979: Hokashu / C'est Charmant (Tokyo)
1978: The Takarazuka (South American Tour)
1978: For Whom the Bell Tolls
1977-78: A Sad Goodbye in the Thames Fog / C'est Magnifique, David
1977: Gone With the Wind, Phil Meade
1976-77: Gypsy of the Setting Sun / Happy Tomorrow, Cesar
1976: The Rose of Versailles III, Crown Prince Louis Charles
1975: The Blue Danube / That's Family
1975: Fairies in the Attic / My High Swing
1974-75: Brigadoon, Meg Brockie (shared with Hiro Yuri)
1974: Beautiful Young Warrior / Funny Feeling (National Tour)
1974: The Man From Algiers / Juju, Armand
1974: Purely, Righteously, Beautifully / Yu the Beautiful
1973: Ukifune and Kaoru-no-Kimi / Golden Sound, Kogimi
1973: This Boundless Love
1973: Ephemeral Flowers / La La Fantastique
1972-73: Beautiful Young Warrior / Arabesque
1972: Beautiful Japan / Wandering Youth


1978: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Andres
1977-78: A Sad Goodbye in the Thames Fog / C'est Magnifique, Prince George
1977: Gone With the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara (musumeyaku lead)
1976-77: Gypsy of the Setting Sun, Zurka
1976: The Rose of Versailles III, Oscar
1975: The Blue Danube, Poldi
1975: Fairies in the Attic
1974: The Man From Algiers
1974: Yu the Beautiful, Shi Ki
1973: Ephemeral Flowers
1972-73: Beautiful Young Warrior


2006: AKIKO: On Stage with Takarasiennes

• Member of the 6th Group of Bambies.
• Switched from otokoyaku to musumeyaku sometime around 1979
• Kiryuu Noboru Blog
• Manages Dance Studio Petipa Mayumi in Kobe