110 Years of Takarazuka Love Songs / Razzle Dazzle
Picture Credit: serikagumi | Official Chirashi, from personal collection
English Title: 110 Years of Takarazuka Love Songs / Razzle Dazzle
Japanese Title: 宝塚110年の恋のうた / Razzle Dazzle（ラズル ダズル）
Romanized Title: Takarazuka Hyakujuunen no Koi no Uta / Razuru Dazuru
Troupe: Cosmos
Year: 2025
Performances: Takarazuka Grand Theater, 05/17/24 - 06/23/24 (postponed), 01/01/25 - 02/02/25 (rescheduled); Tokyo Takarazuka Theater, 07/13/24 - 08/25/24 (postponed), 03/15/25 - 04/27/25 (rescheduled)
Shinjin Kouen Performances: Takarazuka Grand Theater, 01/23; Tokyo Takarazuka Theater, 03/27
110 Years of Takarazuka Love Songs:
Based On: a nihonmono revue celebrating the 110th anniversary of the Takarazuka Revue
Adaptor/Director: Oono Takuji
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Razzle Dazzle:
Author/Director: Tabuchi Daisuke
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Available on DVD: TBA
Available on Blu-Ray: TBA
DVD Scene/Music Cuts: TBA
Other Cast: Kyou Misa (Senka)
WARNING!! MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!
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(From official site)
110 Years of Takarazuka Love Songs
A performance that showcases a selection of love songs from the most memorable Japanese-style shows of Takarazuka Revue’s 110-year history and weaves them into a new production. Enjoy this show that connects the traditional Japanese-style shows of Takarazuka with the future.
Lamenting love lost, Fujiwara no Teika doubts he would ever compose a love poem again. Amidst his lamentations, a mysterious figure appears before him. Beckoned by this beautiful woman who has been performing and singing about the joy, beauty, and pain of love, Teika sets off on a journey to a mysterious world overflowing with love songs...
Razzle Dazzle
The story takes place in Los Angeles in the 1950s. As always, the revelry of the hedonistic celebrities is in full swing this evening at Razzle Dazzle, a nightclub on the Sunset Strip near Hollywood.
They are greeted by its new owner, Raymond Blue. Having lost his wealthy parents and inherited a vast fortune as a child, he is dubbed “the richest orphan in Hollywood,” but the inheritance comes with conditions that have to be met.
To claim it, Raymond has to marry Abigail (Abby), the only daughter of his guardian and distant relative, businessman Richard Winters, and eventually become his successor. However, Raymond despises his materialistic fiancée and flatly refuses to marry her. To start his own business and to find a way out of his current situation, that’s what made him decide to buy his favorite nightclub.
Abigail, seeking to criticize Raymond, visits the nightclub with her father. While Raymond dreams of “true love” just like the plot in a movie, Abigail decisively tells him that no woman in the world would ever love him without his fortune. Their argument escalates, and at this point, Tony, who is Raymond’s close friend and a movie star, proposes a bet.
The bet is this: if Raymond can make someone fall for him without revealing his identity as the richest man in Hollywood, Abigail will give up on marrying him and persuade Richard to allow Raymond to gain full control of his fortune; but if Raymond fails, he must immediately propose marriage to Abigail.
Abigail then adds a twist: she makes Tony join the game as Raymond’s romantic rival. What they also need is someone to be the heroine ─ the one who doesn’t know Raymond’s true identity...
At this very time, a young woman who fits the bill walks into the nightclub. Her name is Dorothy, and she has just arrived in Hollywood from a small town in Kansas with dreams of being in a movie.
Raymond chases after Dorothy, who has left her bag behind when leaving the nightclub, trying to attract her attention by pretending to be nice to her. Just then, Tony appears. He pretends that Raymond is his personal assistant and offers Dorothy the chance to become an extra in the musical movie he is starring in. She is overjoyed by the unexpected offer from the star she admires. Not wanting Tony to get ahead, Raymond also applies to be an extra in the movie.
The next day, the filming of the large-scale musical movie “Sunset in Babylon” is underway at Cosmo Pictures, a major film studio. Using his privileges as a movie star, Tony selects Dorothy as his dance partner. Meanwhile, Raymond struggles with his unfamiliar work as a movie extra rather than trying to outshine his rival and win Dorothy’s affection. To make matters worse, he runs into Charlene, a troublemaking actress with whom he was once in love.
As Raymond dreams of “true love” while struggling to win “false love”, what will be the ultimate outcome of his dreams?
- Final performance for top star Serika Toa, as well as Mizune Shiho and Aoi Yuuki.
- Originally scheduled to appear in this performance, on 09/04/24 Aimi Sara announced her retirement effective 10/27/24, making My Blue Heaven her final performance on a Takarazuka stage.
- Final Cosmos Troupe performance for Rukaze Hikaru before transferring to Star Troupe.
- Senka's Kyou Misa performed in the 110 Years of Takarazuka Love Songs revue only, and did not appear in Razzle Dazzle.
- Originally intended to be part of the Takarazuka 110th Anniversary lineup of shows in 2024, 110 Years of Takarazuka Love Songs was initially paired with a collaboration with the 2023 Square Enix video game Final Fantasy XVI, with the Takarazuka musical adaptation to be written and directed by Koyanagi Naoko.
- Announced 03/05/24: The show in its entirety was postponed, and replaced on the 2024 schedule with a different show. New performance name and dates to be announced.
- Announced 04/13/24: The show was replaced on the 2024 schedule by Le Grand Escalier, a revue-only special performance by Cosmos Troupe.
- Announced 07/04/24: The show was rescheduled for early 2025, with the Final Fantasy XVI collaboration replaced with Razzle Dazzle, a Takarazuka original production written and directed by Tabuchi Daisuke.
- Announced 11/13/24: Yumekaze Sayaka was announced to perform only in Razzle Dazzle and not 110 Years of Takarazuka Love Songs for the entirety of both the Takarazuka and Tokyo runs due to injury.
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