Shirosaki Ai
Picture Credit: yaomeis | The Takarazuka IV: Moon Troupe / Me And My Girl Programme
Name: Shirosaki Ai
Kanji: 城咲 あい
Current Troupe:
Role: Musumeyaku
Status: Retired
Nickname: Ai-chan
Real Name: 中村愛 (Nakamura Ai)
Height: 163 cm
Birthday: January 24, 1983
Blood Type: A
Hometown: Kokubunji, Tokyo
Favorite Food:
Favorite Flower: Roses, tulips
Favorite Colors: Pink
Hobbies:
Collections:
Special Talent:
Origin of Stage Name: Thought it up with classmates
Favorite Role: Rosa Heming in "Senor Don Juan" shinjinkouen, Izayoi in "Namida Bashi, Egao Bashi", and Josephine in "Itoshiki Hito Yo"
Would Like to Try Playing:
Debut: 2000 (86th Class) Lived in a Dream
Troupe History:
2000 - 2009 Moon Troupe
2009: Last Play / Heat on Beat!, Esmeralda
2009: Elisabeth, Sophie
2008-09: Floating Bridge of Dreams / Apasionado!!, Kozaishou no Kimi
2008: The Great Gatsby (Nissay), Daisy (lead musumeyaku role)
2008: Me and My Girl, Jaqueline Carstone / Sophia Brighton
2007-08: Hollywood Lover (Bow Hall / Nippon Seinenkan), Rose L'Amour (lead musumeyaku role)
2007: Mahoroba / A Magician's Misfortunes, Marek
2007: Love at Dal Lake (National Tour), Rita, Etoile
2007: Higher than the Sky of Paris / Fancy Dance, Elsa
2006: Oklahoma! (Nissay), Laurey (lead musumeyaku role)
2006: Rome at Dawn / Les Bijoux Brillants, Cleopatra
2006: Yearning for My Husband (Bow Hall), Kogou (lead musumeyaku role)
2005: Jazzy Fairies / Revue of Dreams, Rosie Wilcox
2005: Ernest in Love (Umeda Arts), Cecily
2005: Elisabeth, Black Angel / Madeline
2004: The Glow of Sunset in Asuka / Takarazuka Splendor II, Ikoma
2004: Beloved (Bow Hall / Nippon Seinenkan), Josephine (lead musumeyaku role)
2003-04: Seal of Roses
2003: Bridge of Tears, Bridge of Smiles (Bow Hall / Nippon Seinenkan), Izayoi (lead musumeyaku role)
2003: Takarazuka Floral Diary / Senor Don Juan, Catherine
2003: Spring Again / Love Goblin (Bow Workshop), Yono / O-haru
2002: At the End of a Long Spring / With a Song in My Heart
2002: Slapstick (Bow Hall / Nippon Seinenkan), Margaret
2002: Guys and Dolls
2001: Blood and Sand (Bow Hall / Nippon Seinenkan), Permitas (boy)
2001: Great Pirates / Jazzmania
2001: Liebessonate / ESP!!
2001: Practical Joke
2001: Now the Violets are Blooming / Liebessonate
2000: Prisoner of Zenda / Jazzmania
2000: Golden Pharaoh / Miracat
2006: Rome at Dawn
2005: Jazzy Fairies, Shannon (lead musumeyaku role)
2005: Elisabeth, Sophie
2004: The Glow of Sunset in Asuka, Menou (lead musumeyaku role)
2003-04: The Seal of Roses, Jennifer / Paula (lead musumeyaku role)
2003: Senor Don Juan, Rosa Hemming
2002: At the End of a Long Spring, Natalie
2002: Guys & Dolls, Sarah Brown (lead musumeyaku role)
2001: Great Pirates, Lucia
2001: Liebessonate (Takarazuka)
2001: Liebessonate (Tokyo)
2000: Prisoner of Zenda
2009: 0 -Zero- (Sena Jun Dinner Show)
2009: The Road to 100 Years - Kageki 1000th Issue Commemoration Special
2008: Takarazuka Special 2008 - La Festa!
2007: TCA Special 2007 - 'Allo! Revue!
2007: Pure, Proper, Beautiful
2006: Dream Memorandum
2006: TCA Special 2006 - Wonderful Dreamers
2005: Golden Steps
2004: TCA Special 2004 - Takarazuka 90
2004: Sweet & Chic (Kiriya Hiromu Dinner Show)
2003: TCA Special 2003 - Dear Grand Theater
2014: Live Performance: 『FEEL』
2014: Dance tte Omoshiroi? Vol. 7
2014: Shirosaki Ai Birthday Live
2013: Live Performance: 『REAL』
2013: Last+a
2012: Live Performance: 『Shirosaki Ai TALK 2 LIVE』
2011: Destiny
2011: Hakkenden : Murasame Koi Kidan, Princess Fuse
2010: I² Dinner Show
My Dream Suddenly Vanished On June 3, 2021 Ai-chan spoke honestly to the press for the first time about feeling crushed at not becoming top musumeyaku, when her only goal since childhood had been to be top and she'd gotten so close. "It wasn't that my dream didn't come true, but that it was gone. It was the company's decision, so no matter how humiliated I felt, it would not change. I was able to go down the grand staircase at the end as the heroine, but I couldn't feel happy with that for a long time." She says now she is happy to have a husband and child who teach her not to take things as seriously as she did in Takarazuka, and to just try and enjoy each day.
- Happy Rose - Her current blog
- Happy Rose - Her old blog
- Youtube Page
- Member of the 1st group of Sky Fairies.
- In 2004, she won the Shinjin-shou - it means "rookie of the year".
- Originally she wanted to be an otokoyaku, but she stopped growing and wasn't tall enough. She says she is glad she became a musumeyaku, however.
- One of the four Moon Troupe members to be featured in Takarazuka Young Star Guide: Musumeyaku Edition.
- Like Mirai Yuuki, played the role of Sophie in both the Shinjin Koen (Moon 2005), and Grand Theatre (Moon 2009), productions of "Elisabeth".
- She has an older brother and an older sister. She is the youngest child in her home.
- Performs occasionally, but mostly teaches a physical fitness course called "Body Make Jazz" and dance classes.
- She married K-Ballet's dancer Fuzuki Isaka on 09/22/15
- In 2013, she joined Dance Company Lasta and announced she would begin performing regular dance shows with them.