Friendship Networking was a relay-style talk feature published in GRAPH in the early 90s. This talk between Takumi Hibiki and Todoroki Yuu was published in August 1992.
Continue readingSalut! was a 2019 GRAPH feature interviewing young performers. Ren’s was published in March.
Continue readingTo the Future is a small GRAPH interview of junior actresses. This one was published in the August 2017 issue.
Continue readingTalk DX is a GRAPH talk feature with the otokoyaku leads of a recent Grand Theatre show. This one, which was recorded towards the end of the Takarazuka run of The Rose of Versailles 2001: Fersen and Marie Antoinette, was published in the July 2001 issue, when the show was being performed in Tokyo.
Ayaki was in Senka at the time, and they also spend some time discussing her previous show with Cosmos Troupe, Nostalgia Across the Sea.
An outtake photo from the back of the magazine is also included.
Continue readingThe Costume is a GRAPH feature where Top Stars give a detailed photoshoot of certain costumes and explain their key details. These two feature Snow Troupe Top Stars of the time Sagiri Seina and Sakihi Miyu introducing costumes from their holiday revue Greatest HITS! and were originally published in the January 2017 issue.
Continue readingThis cute talk feature between classmates Hanafusa Mari and Aran Kei was published in the February 1997 issue of GRAPH. At the time, Hanafusa Mari was Top Musumeyaku of Snow Troupe, and Aran Kei was still an up-and-coming otokoyaku (her first Bow Hall lead show, ICARUS, took place almost exactly a year after this was published).
Continue readingThis talk, featuring Mizu Natsuki, Ayabuki Mao, and Otozuki Kei, was recorded late in the Takarazuka run of the 2007 Snow Troupe Elisabeth and published in the August 2007 issue of GRAPH.
lost-in-the-land-of-stories kindly provided the translation excerpts used when they quote the show.
Continue readingThis GRAPH feature ran in the mid-2000s. Takarasiennes would be given categories to pick their ‘Top 3′ for. Kiriya’s ran in the September issue.
Continue readingThis brief interview with Snow Troupe otokoyaku Kiraha Reo was published in the May 2017 issue of GRAPH.
Continue readingThis round-robin style talk with all the 88th class members was published in the May 2017 issue of GRAPH, as part of a series on the more senior classes (those who have been in the company 10 years of more).
The participants are: Kouzuki Ruu, Asaka Manato, Kagetsu Miyako, Sahana Mako, Kurenai Yuzuru, Hoshou Dai, Yugiri Rai
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