Troupe Report is a Kageki feature where an appointed reporter will write about current events in the troupe, often via Q&A content with questions solicited from readers. Reporters are generally only replaced on retirement, unlike other backstage features that rotate monthly or quarterly.
This edition was written by Shimon Yuriya and mainly features an interview-style Q&A with Ryuu Masaki.
Continue readingThe Costume is a GRAPH feature where Top Stars and Top Musumeyaku give a detailed photoshoot of costumes from their latest performance and explain their key details. In July 2010 Kiriya and Aono presented costumes from their Grand Theatre debut production, THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL.
Continue readingThis talk feature between Maikaze Rira and Sena Jun, who she had been in Flower Troupe with, was published for Maikaze’s retirement in the December 2006 issue of GRAPH.
Continue readingThis review of 1789, by freelance theatre and film reviewer Kotooda Chieko (d. 2018), was published in the June 2015 issue of Kageki.
Continue readingVoyage With You was a Kageki photoshoot and interview feature where the Top Combi picked a destination and time period for a photoshoot, as well as having a talk about the location and related Takarazuka shows. Tsukishiro and Umino picked ‘Nostalgic Morocco’ as the setting for their feature, which was published in October of 2022.
Continue readingCARNIVAL was longtime Takarazuka interviewer Ashizawa Jin’s 2015 GRAPH column. This talk with then-Moon Troupe member Asami Jun was published in April.
Continue readingThis is a slightly older version of To the Future, so the questions vary a bit from its current form.
This young star introduction feature was published in the September 2010 issue of GRAPH.
Continue readingTroupe Report is a Kageki feature where an appointed reporter will write about current events in the troupe or ask troupe members for questions to answers sent in by readers. Reporters rotate more slowly and in many troupes are only replaced on retirement or transfer, unlike other backstage features that rotate monthly or quarterly. (Moon Troupe sometimes rotates faster.)
Moon Troupe’s Troupe Report was written by Shimon Yuriya in 2015. The May edition focuses on the rehearsals for 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille.
Continue readingThere’s a section in Kageki called ‘Words and Pictures’ where one sienne from each troupe is chosen quarterly to write about behind-the-scenes episodes from their troupe. (It’s slightly similar to Troupe Report, but longer and with a fixed turnover.)
Shirayuki Sachika was the writer for Moon Troupe in the second quarter of 2015. In this issue she writes about the rehearsals for 1789 (with a surprise cameo from Hokushou Kairi).
Continue readingThis rehearsal roundtable talk was recorded for the May 2015 issue of Kageki.
Besides Director Koike Shuuichiro, 15 performers from Senka and Moon Troupe participated.
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