Uff... it's been a while since I last wrote on here!
Sorry for the absence!
While I was away from the blog, I finally managed to watch a show that I had been wanting to watch for quite some time.
It's not actually Takarazuka, but it's linked to it: the Japanese version of DRACULA, starring Wao Youka and Hanafusa Mari (and also Natsumi Abe, who previously was part of Morning Musume).
The show was very good, though I must (reluctantly) admit, that I liked Wao better back in the Zuka days.
Still, the show is definitely worth watching.
I honestly think it's awesome that the golden combi Wao-Hanafusa is still active even though their Takarazuka days are over. No matter what the reason behind it might be, I love that.
I also found out something pretty interesting in an interview with Wao regarding this show: apparently Frank Wildhorn was keeping the part especially for her.
Since this is not a Takarazuka show, there wasn't any need for the main male character to be played by a woman... and yet he picked her.
Most of you probably already know this, but Frank Wildhorn and Wao had met in 2006 because of her last show as a top star, Never Say Goodbye (an incredibly good show in my humble opioion), which was written by Frank Wildhorn himself especially for the occasion.
That was already a great honour, but I believe it's an even greater honour that he kept the role of Dracula for her up til 2011. Apparently (according to the interview I mentioned earlier), Frank Wildhorn had already talked about having Wao as Dracula back in her top star days.
At any rate, Wao makes without doubt a pretty good Dracula and her skills are impressive, even though, as I already pointed out, I wouldn't put it among my favourite performances.
Still, I encourage you to watch it if you have not watched it yet!
Here you can find a video of one song of the show(WARNING: this might be a spoiler!)
And this is the first part of the interview I mentioned earlier.
If you feel like watching this musical, you can find it on tudou.com ... if you can't find it, let me know and I'll help you out!
