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    • Switch (Bow Hall, October 2002)

    Posted by quinquin on Sun 08 of Apr, 2007 21:19 GMT-0000 posts: 57 ☆ ☆ ☆
    Is anyone familiar with a Takarazuka play/show called Switch?

    After seeing a couple of clips on youtube I've tried to find out more about it. I have found no traces of it here at the wiki except that Yoshizuki Eri mentions the parts in Switch as her favorites. But with the aid of google/babelfish I've located the following information:

    It seems to have been at the Bow Hall 2002.10.5-12
    It was called Switch -75th コラボレーション-」
    The complete cast was:

    Iori Naoka (Senka)
    Yoshizuki Eri (Moon)
    Miho Keiko (Snow)
    Kozuki Wataru (Senka)

    It was in two parts with the first half being some sort of thriller called Play of Switch, possibly based on/inspired by the movie Face off(?).

    The other part is a revue/show called Show of Switch. This was what the youtube clips was taken from, and they had the Sky Stage logo so at least the show should have been aired there.
    Kozuki Wataru and Shirahane Yuri performs one number from Switch called Little Boy Blue in the Kozuki Wataru Dinner Show Passion.

    Anyone who reads japanese may get some more from these links than what babelfish and I did :-)
    http://www.jj.e-mansion.com/~u-tsu/switch.html
    http://lakemoongallery.littlestar.jp/switch.htm

    I'm sort of wondering if this was a regular Takarazuka production or something else? The minimalistic, cross troupes casting and what seems to be a very violent play looks a bit "odd" somehow.

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    Posted by Zephy on Sun 15 of Apr, 2007 17:31 GMT-0000 posts: 128 ☆ ☆ ☆ Japan
    I was just flipping through some of my older books and noticed that there are actually 4 pages of photos from the performance in Le Cinq #47. It appears to have been a Sky Stage production
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    Posted by mizukusa on Wed 11 of Apr, 2007 14:28 GMT-0000 posts: 32 ☆ ☆ ☆
    From what I know it was a 75th class special 'show' from what its poster says.

    By the way, there was rehearsal footage of it on Wataru's Sky Stage Box.
    So they at least should have broadcasted stuff in connection with it.

    But same for me, I also long to see that show very, very much.
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    Posted by quinquin on Mon 09 of Apr, 2007 06:48 GMT-0000 posts: 57 ☆ ☆ ☆
    So if it isn't a Takarazuka production, what is is? Does Sky Stage do show stagings?
    I didn't even know there were productions by Takarazuka performers in Takarazuka theaters that wasn't listed as official productions. There seems to be new things to discover about the world of Takarazuka all the time. Now I have to wonder what other stuff that might be out there....

    And I'll just join genkigimp in hoping to stumble over a copy one day.

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    Posted by genkigimp on Mon 09 of Apr, 2007 02:45 GMT-0000
    Aaaaa....I've wanted to see this for a while....not a high chance of that unless I find someone with a copy from skystage.
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    Posted by caithion on Sun 08 of Apr, 2007 22:08 GMT-0000 posts: 708 ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
    That's really interesting! Looks like all of the performers were 75th class (1989), and these four were the last left from their class who hadn't retired yet at the time.

    It's not listed on the Takarazuka home page, or in my 90th anniversary book, which is unusual, and I guess points to it not being considered a "normal" show....

    Found these on my favorite Sky Stage info pages:
    TCA Sky Stage - They say it was never released on video.
    Rock in Takarazuka
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