World Premiere of Frank Wildhorn's New Musical "Your Lie in April" Opens in Tokyo

The globe premiere of a brand name-new musical Your Lie in April ultimately opened its curtain to a house full of enthusiastic viewers at the prestigious Nissay Theatre on Saturday, May possibly 7th in Tokyo two decades soon after the cancellation of the globe premiere in 2020 thanks to the pandemic. The house continues to be full everyday with tickets currently bought out just about completely.

The musical, an adaptation of Naoshi Arakawa’s masterpiece manga of the exact title which has been adapted into a Television set anime series in 2014 as well as a hit reside-motion movie in 2016, boasts a great collaboration of Broadway creators and Japanese musical talents. Songs is by musical maestro Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Wonderland, Bonnie & Clyde, Dying Observe, Mata Hari, Rudolf), lyrics by Tracy Miller and Carly Robyn Environmentally friendly (The Mild of Firenze, Kung-Fu Masters, Houdini) and Frank Wildhorn, preparations and orchestrations by Jason Howland (Very little Gals – the Musical, Ikiru, Wonderful – the Carole King Musical, Jekyll & Hyde), e-book by Riko Sakaguchi who has co-created a Studio Ghibli movie and composed lots of other Tv drama and movies (The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, Mary and The Witch’s Flower), and lyrics translation and course by Ikko Ueda (Little Shop of Horrors, Love’s Labour’s Shed, The Male Who Laughs, On Your Ft!, Lifeless Poet Culture, Future to Usual, Lawfully Blonde). The show is manufactured by Toho Co., Ltd. and Fuji Tv Network, Inc.

Your Lie in April centers about a piano prodigy Kosei Arima, who has shed the skill to hear the sound of the piano in his childhood since the dying of his mom, who employed to be his demanding piano instructor, and is no more time ready to experience the piano. This modifications a person day in April when Kosei, now a superior university college student, fulfills a violinist of the exact same age, Kaori Miyazono, through his childhood pal Tsubaki Sawabe with his higher university friend Ryota Watari. Immediately after listening to Kaori’s overwhelmingly cost-free functionality at a violin opposition, Kosei’s entire world commences to consider on colorful hues once once again. Kaori attempts to provide Kosei again to the planet of audio someway, and Kosei gets far more and much more attracted to Kaori. Having said that, just as Kosei is about to return to the entire world of new music, he discovers that Kaori has a large magic formula.

The musical stars Yuta Koseki and Tatsunari Kimura as Kosei Arima (double solid), Erika Ikuta as Kaori Miyazono, Fuka Yuzuki as Tsubaki Sawabe, and Koki Mizuta and Takuto Teranishi as Ryota Watari.

The viewers showered the solid associates with applause at the raucous curtain connect with of the opening evening and continued expressing their fervent appreciation as the casts brought on phase the Grammy- and Tony-nominated musician, Mr. Frank Wildhorn as well as Ms. Carly Robyn Eco-friendly. Mr. Wildhorn and Ms. Inexperienced experienced flown from the states to rejoice the opening of the intercontinental collaboration. Mr. Wildhorn saluted the audience, introducing the cast and creatives, and mentioned:

The buzz on the online is created not only by the lovers of the resource content and musicals but also by newcomers of these, which a lot of commented on the properly-sent thoughts and youthful vitality as a result of the terrific ability of tunes. Testimonials integrated the phrases of: a “universal” story that is refreshingly introduced with each other by the numerous excellent music with innumerable “acquire-residence tunes”.

Your Lie in April proceeds its Tokyo operate at the Nissay Theatre until finally Sunday May perhaps 29th. The musical will then tour to Gunma, Aichi, Hyogo, Toyama, and Fukuoka from Saturday June 4th to Sunday July 3rd.