Xiang Fei / Aloha 'Oe
Picture Credit: program cover (Kuji Asami)
English Title: Xiang Fei / Aloha 'Oe
Japanese Title: 香妃 / アロハ・オエ
Romanized Title: Shan Fei / Aroha Oe
Troupe: Moon
Year: 1949
Performances: Nagoya Takarazuka Theater, 10/08 - 10/17
Shinjin Kouen Performances: n/a
Xiang Fei:
Based On:
Author/Director: Koumura Kikuo
Composer: Kawasaki Ichirou
Choreographer: Tamada Yuuzou
Conductor (Takarazuka): n/a
Conductor (Tokyo): n/a
Aloha 'Oe:
Based On:
Author/Director: Uchimura Rokuya
Composer: Sakai Kyou, Yamane Hisao
Choreographer: Watanabe Takeo, Tamada Yuuzou
Conductor (Takarazuka): n/a
Conductor (Tokyo): n/a
Available on DVD: No
Available on Blu-Ray: No
DVD Scene/Music Cuts: n/a
Xiang Fei
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Role | Cast | ||
Qianlong Emperor, 6th emperor of the Qing Dynasty | Minami Yuuko | ||
Xiang Fei (The Fragrant Concubine), Amursana's wife | Awashima Chikage | ||
Empress Dowager, the emperor's mother | Muromachi Yoshiko | ||
Amursana, prince of the Khoit-Oirat tribe | Kuji Asami | ||
Jume, Xiang Fei's lady-in-waiting | Kazuki Sumie | ||
Peza, Xiang Fei's lady-in-waiting | Tsukushi Mari | ||
Yang DeHui | Hino Akira | ||
Gao ChengLing, minister | Miyama Shigure | ||
Yan Fei | Yumi Azusa | ||
Aloha 'Oe
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Role | Cast | ||
Richard Taylor, Hollywood star | Kuji Asami | ||
Joan, a tourist headed for Hawaii | Awashima Chikage | ||
William Russel, a pineapple farmer from Hawaii | Amagi Tsukie | ||
Ruth, William's girlfriend | Minami Yuuko | ||
Jim Hutton, Richard's manager | Miyama Sakura | ||
Norma Sheridan, Hollywood actress | Yumi Azusa | ||
John | Tsukibue Sayaka | ||
Rosalie, Joan's friend | Kiyokawa Hayami | ||
Ken, William's houseboy | Kamiuta Misuzu | ||
George, Ruth's father | Muromachi Yoshiko |
Other Cast: Asagiri Sanae, Shijou Hideko, Suga Umeyo, Asaka Mitsuru, Hoshi Youko, Ookura Tamako, Maya Midori, Kouzuki Akira, Tsubasa Hikaru, Shizumachi Misayo, Kunishima Katsuyo, Tazuru Chieko, Katsuragi Yutaka, Mikasa Mari, Saga Miyaji, Asabuki Reiko, Hoshimiya Masami, Urashima Utame
WARNING!! MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!
Xiang Fei
Prince Amursana was the last of the Dzungar rulers, and his rebel forces were defeated by the Qing armies. He fled, sending his wife Xiang Fei to safety. However, Xiang Fei was eventually captured by the Qing forces and brought to the forbidden palace along with her ladies-in-waiting. There the Qianlong Emperor falls in love with her, but she remains loyal to her husband and hates the Qing.
Seeing her as a distraction, the minister Gao ChengLing leaves her in a dark forest to get eaten by wild beasts, but the animals there adore her. Xiang Fei hears the emperor calling her name and decides to kill the emperor with her bow, but in her attempt she ends up getting wounded herslef. When she sees the emperor's response to her injury, her heart begins to soften towards him.
Next, the emperors mother decides to interfere. She has learned that Amursana was killed, and brings Xiang Fei to see her husband's body so that she will believe the rumors. Seeing her husband dead, Xiang Fei decides to take her own life to join him.
Aloha 'Oe
Hollywood star Richard Taylor is feeling drained by the attention from his fans and wishes he could spend a quiet, slow day away from the limelight.
One day, Norma Sheridan, his co-worker, comes to tell him that his crazed fans waiting for him at the theater for autographs had mobed someone who had been hurt and taken away in an ambulance. After Richard's manager says he is planning to send him to New York for an appearance, he finds another man in his bedroom who looks just like him. Both men are astonished, and Richard realizes this man must have been the one mistakenly mobbed by his fans.
The man is William Russel, a pineapple farmer from Hawaii, who is visiting to gain a little sophistication with his lover Ruth. Richard thinks William's life sounds perfect, so the two men hatch a plan to switch places. William will go to New York, and Richard will go to Hawaii.
On the boat to Hawaii, Richard meets Joan and her friend Rosalie, who are headed for the Honolulu Royal Hawaiian Hotel, and he falls for Joan. When she first sees him, Joan thinks he is the popular star Richard, but then believes his words that he is William. Joan hears on the news that "Richard" has been shot by a crazy fan in New York City, but the real Richard remains oblivious. He is studying tour guides so that he can give Joan a tour when they arrive. When he arrives at William's house, everyone believes he is William, except the houseboy Ken, who has a letter from the real William explaining the situation.
Meanwhile, Ruth thinks her boyfriend is acting very oddly, but stays quiet. She invites him to her house for a welcome home party, but while there Richard inadvertently tells a story of buying a car that has Ruth's father George up in arms. Before they left, George had loaned William a significant amount of money, and now he thinks that William spent it on an expensive car. Caught, Richard admits that he is actually the star Richard Taylor, but no one believes him.
Finally escaping back to William's Richard is confronted by Joan, who accuses him of having a girlfriend. When he explains that he is actually Richard to her, she then accuses him of cheating on his fiancee Norma, which startles him. She shows him a New York paper, which is running an announcement of his engagement to Norma. Ken is soon shocked to hear the news that "William" and Ruth's wedding date has been set.
Meanwhile, not knowing what has been going on at home, William has boarded a clipper bound for Hawaii. He makes it back just in time, as Richard pretends to have forgotten the ring and slips off. When Joan sees William and Richard together, she realizes the truth.
William and Ruth and Richard and Joan enjoy a fun honeymoon in Hawaii.
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