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    • The Best of 2006

    Posted by Chioco on Sat 06 of Jan, 2007 21:08 GMT-0000
    2007's started, and I've been looking back on the great shows of 2006. Do you have any favorite musicals? revues? stars? What are your favorite 2006 moments?

    1. Lucifer's Tears: Maybe I'm a bit biased because it's my newest DVD, but I can't help but love it. I cried a ridiculous amount the first time I saw it.

    2. Rose of Versailles (Fersen): It's the only performance I was able to see live, but I can't complain, because it was the January 1st performance. Wataru, Chie, Komu, and Tonami on one stage is special :)

    3. Rome at Dawn: The Yuuhi factor.

    4. Too Short a Time to Fall in Love: It's so light-hearted and enjoyable. The revue was fun too. It made me into a huge Chie + Ryoka Kazu fan!!

    Rose of Versailles Oscar version is up there too, and I loved Copacabana
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    Posted by bunretsu on Tue 09 of Jan, 2007 12:54 GMT-0000
    > Chioco:
    > I fell in love with Kazu Ryoka, Tono Asuka (She was always there, but she had so much personality as Conchita :)), Asumi Rio, and Ayana Oto. There's always so many new people

    ASUMI RIO! Yes, yes, LOVE HER. But 2006 was a good year for me to adore musumeyaku, I think, and Asuka certainly captured my love in Copacabana. Another good 2006 moment was Touko finally becoming top. I think she and Asuka are wonderful together.

    2006 had me a little depressed with the expected and unexpected departures of 'siennes I liked, but now the excitement of new (yet familiar) faces in the lead roles has almost made up for the fact that many favorites moved on. I'm looking forward to 2007. ;)
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    Posted by Chioco on Mon 08 of Jan, 2007 00:42 GMT-0000
    I didn't think they looked a like either, except for the poster of Kurotokage! It's great that some top musumeyaku are starting to get roles with actual personalities :)

    Ogita Koichi is interesting. I haven't had the opportunity to see Marrakech, but Romantica Takarazuka and Tarantella were much darker than the usual revue.
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    Posted by princesslucia on Mon 08 of Jan, 2007 00:02 GMT-0000 posts: 144 ☆ ☆ ☆ United States
    No, Chioco, I don't think they look alike. The most similar thing about them is their hands: they both have wonderfully elegant long fingers, although Ginger's are even longer than Osa's!

    I'll be seeing Kurotokage / Tuxedo Jazz. :) It's especially exciting because a) Ginger has her fourth good role in a row, which as I'm sure you know is very rare for a top musumeyaku, and b) the revue is by Ogita Koichi, whose work I absolutely adore. I just know he's going to come up with something very special for Flower Troupe — he certainly did with Marrakech.
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    Posted by Chioco on Sun 07 of Jan, 2007 20:56 GMT-0000
    princesslucia, do you think that Sakurano Ayane and Haruno Sumire look alike? (with makeup, of course). I'm jealous you get to see them live! What production are you seeing?

    And the retirements and new announcements were so exciting this year!

    I fell in love with Kazu Ryoka, Tono Asuka (She was always there, but she had so much personality as Conchita :)), Asumi Rio, and Ayana Oto. There's always so many new people

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    Posted by csh_121476 on Sun 07 of Jan, 2007 05:54 GMT-0000
    A lot has happened in the year 2006, a lot of retirements, a lot of new Top Stars, a lot of performance specials, a lot of opportunity for younger Siennes to shine.

    My new discovery for the year 2006 is Misuzu Aki! Sure I like her singing before, but now, I'm really hooked ^^. I hope I can join her fan club when I go to Japan this March...*hopes*
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    Posted by princesslucia on Sun 07 of Jan, 2007 02:46 GMT-0000 posts: 144 ☆ ☆ ☆ United States
    For me the event of 2006 was Sakurano Ayane becoming Haruno Sumire's musumeyaku. Loving Osa as I do, I was nervous about seeing this very new, very young girl opposite my darling. I didn't like either Otori Rei or Fuzuki Miyo and I was afraid this would be another near-miss and Osa would never find her perfect stage partner.

    But I needn't have worried: by the end of the first act of Appartement Cinema I liked Ayane; by the end of the second I loved her; and the pair dance at the end convinced me utterly that here, at last, Osa was part of a true golden combi. They reminded me so much of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers that I began to call Ayane Ginger, and the nickname has since rather taken off among the foreign fan community. ;)

    In a couple of months' time I'll be seeing them perform in person. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it!
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    Posted by caithion on Sat 06 of Jan, 2007 23:51 GMT-0000 posts: 708 ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
    I think, for me, 2006 was wonderful because of how much was going on. There was always an exciting announcement someone was holding their breath for.

    And it was special to watch my favorite baby Masao (Ryuu Masaki) have her first Bow Hall lead and her first understudy under a top star in a shinko. And then to learn that Mizu would be the next top star of Snow Troupe with Shirahane Yuri as her partner! A wonderful year, all around.
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