![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Cosmos Announcements
We have announcements... finally... Two weeks too late if you ask me.
I knew something hinky was going on when we didn't get the announcements together. I worried Tom would slide into soragumi again and take it for some disastrous twirl at that Drama City / Seinenkan slot. And I wasn't half wrong.
She half slide in. She'll be doing Papa, I Love You, (which is based off It Runs in The Family) in Bow hall at the same time as the other soragumi shows. Meaning, no doubt that she will steal part of our troupe. According to my research this show takes 11 people, so she'll be stealing 10 people from our ranks to make it work. Unless she takes some senka people, but I don't know how likely that is. We all know how Tom would rather work with Infants who do All The Heavy Lifting.
In terms of the other shows, I know haven't written about Dark Brown Eyes / Viva! Disappointment! I mean... Viva Festa. I think this is such an expected and boring show choice for such an interesting (and out of the way) theatre. Viva! Festa! wasn't particularly memorable the first go around, and making it smaller can't improve the show itself... sadly. Do not get me started on what an awful taidan show this was for Mirion *pulls out long list of complaints* I can and I will write a novel if anyone wants it. *looks around* okay then *shoves list back into it's pocket* And paired with Dark Brown Eyes, which I am watching as I type this up. I just.... want better choices, I guess. So far the lead is completely unmemorable except two very cute outfits in the beginning. And with soragumi being split three ways, I think the casting is going to make or break for this production. Who will play Pugachov? The nibante role. Kiki will be off leading her own angst fest.... Will it be Ai-chan? Will it be a last hurrah for Akki? Who despite everyone's expectations keeps hanging in through retirement announcement after retirement announcement. Personally, I am hoping it is Ai-chan mostly because I don't want to have to spend my little disposable income on going to Fukuoka to see this show. A boring musumeyaku role, and a shitty show for the top musumeyaku. Frankly, not interested. Don't get me wrong, Madoka will SLAY Masha, but there is frankly only so much you can do with it. Polish a turd it is still a turd... all that jazz, ya know.
Right now Kiki's show is much more intriguing. Kiki will be starring in "Die Räuber". Die Räuber, or "The Robbers" as it is known in English. This show looks like ANGST heaven, and I am so excited for Kiki to get something with some DRAMA in it to cut her considerable acting chops. I'm thinking she will either get Mineri or Aya as her partner, and hopefully Zun-chan as her nibante. In my fantasy world Tom will take Mineri because I consistently find her underwhelming, and she's obviously. And there is nothing Tom loves more than is groping Top Musumeyaku before the become Top Musumeyaku. That would probably leave Yumeshiro Aya as Kiki's partner, and she has me intrigued. I really want to know what she is capable of since I have missed most of her roles with an exception of Anybody. Which she did an AMAZING job of, if anyone was wondering.
Takarazuka.... bring me something joyful next. I want a Good Daisuke Revue for the GT... based off... Makaze's smoldering hip wiggles or something equally ridiculous.
I knew something hinky was going on when we didn't get the announcements together. I worried Tom would slide into soragumi again and take it for some disastrous twirl at that Drama City / Seinenkan slot. And I wasn't half wrong.
She half slide in. She'll be doing Papa, I Love You, (which is based off It Runs in The Family) in Bow hall at the same time as the other soragumi shows. Meaning, no doubt that she will steal part of our troupe. According to my research this show takes 11 people, so she'll be stealing 10 people from our ranks to make it work. Unless she takes some senka people, but I don't know how likely that is. We all know how Tom would rather work with Infants who do All The Heavy Lifting.
In terms of the other shows, I know haven't written about Dark Brown Eyes / Viva! Disappointment! I mean... Viva Festa. I think this is such an expected and boring show choice for such an interesting (and out of the way) theatre. Viva! Festa! wasn't particularly memorable the first go around, and making it smaller can't improve the show itself... sadly. Do not get me started on what an awful taidan show this was for Mirion *pulls out long list of complaints* I can and I will write a novel if anyone wants it. *looks around* okay then *shoves list back into it's pocket* And paired with Dark Brown Eyes, which I am watching as I type this up. I just.... want better choices, I guess. So far the lead is completely unmemorable except two very cute outfits in the beginning. And with soragumi being split three ways, I think the casting is going to make or break for this production. Who will play Pugachov? The nibante role. Kiki will be off leading her own angst fest.... Will it be Ai-chan? Will it be a last hurrah for Akki? Who despite everyone's expectations keeps hanging in through retirement announcement after retirement announcement. Personally, I am hoping it is Ai-chan mostly because I don't want to have to spend my little disposable income on going to Fukuoka to see this show. A boring musumeyaku role, and a shitty show for the top musumeyaku. Frankly, not interested. Don't get me wrong, Madoka will SLAY Masha, but there is frankly only so much you can do with it. Polish a turd it is still a turd... all that jazz, ya know.
Right now Kiki's show is much more intriguing. Kiki will be starring in "Die Räuber". Die Räuber, or "The Robbers" as it is known in English. This show looks like ANGST heaven, and I am so excited for Kiki to get something with some DRAMA in it to cut her considerable acting chops. I'm thinking she will either get Mineri or Aya as her partner, and hopefully Zun-chan as her nibante. In my fantasy world Tom will take Mineri because I consistently find her underwhelming, and she's obviously. And there is nothing Tom loves more than is groping Top Musumeyaku before the become Top Musumeyaku. That would probably leave Yumeshiro Aya as Kiki's partner, and she has me intrigued. I really want to know what she is capable of since I have missed most of her roles with an exception of Anybody. Which she did an AMAZING job of, if anyone was wondering.
Takarazuka.... bring me something joyful next. I want a Good Daisuke Revue for the GT... based off... Makaze's smoldering hip wiggles or something equally ridiculous.