Sailor Moon Musical

YES OMG FHBCKAHBFCB, YOU GUYS. It's sooo cool that this is happening..  After almost a decade, this is like a revival !! This musical will only be shown in Japan though, which is sad for all of my fellow Americans. Luckily for me, it's from September 13-23 in Tokyo which is about a 2-3 hour trip from Yawatahama. I'd have to take an hour-long train ride to Matsuyama and then an hour-long plane ride to Tokyo but ahh! I feel like it may be worth that, plus the $68 admission fee. I just wish I could understand what they're saying ; ~ ;

The original magical girl manga's creator, Naoko Takeuchi, launched the original manga in Nakayoshi in 1992, and the hit anime premiered that same year. The manga inspired 27 earlier stage musical runs with over 800 performances between 1993 and 2005. The cast and staff of the new musical are largely different from the past versions. 

Takeuchi personally auditioned actressses for the cast. Satomi Ōkubo will be the fifth actress to assume the role of the title magical girl. Yūga Yamato, another former actress of male roles in the Takarazuka troupe, will play the love interest, Tuxedo Kamen (Tuxedo Mask). The full main cast includes:

17-year-old Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon

16-year-old Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury
16-year-old Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars
22-year-old Yū Takhashi as Sailor Jupiter
21-year-old Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus
Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask
A female Tuxedo Mask! You go girl~ (•ิ‿•ิ ✿)
The rest of the cast includes:

• (Former Takarazuka actress) Midori Hatsukaze as Queen Beryl
• (Former Takarazuka actress) Ryō Saika as Kunzite
• Misaki Komatsu as Zoisite
• Koro as Nephrite
• (Model) Root as Jadeite
• Mayumi Shintani as Lemures Leader
• Jamie Natsuki as Queen Serenity

Both Hatsukaze and Saika played male roles during their stints in the famed all-female Takarazuka troupe, while Root modeled for Kera Boku, Japan's first women's fashion magazine for male clothing. 
The story will be a new recounting of the battles between the Sailor Senshi and the Dark Kingdom that seeks the Silver Crystal. (The subtitle of the new production is La Reconquista — the name of the movement to reclaim the Iberian Peninsula from Islamic invaders during the 14th and 15th centuries.)
Here's a clip from one of the past shows:

Takuya Hiramitsu is producing, writing, and directing the new musical with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. Dwango and Nelke Planning are co-producing the musical's run from September 13 to 23 at Shibuya's AiiA Theater Tokyo. General ticket sales will begin on August 17 for 6,800 yen (about US$68), but advance reservations began already via Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine. Source: animenewsnetwork.com