days was a photo feature in GRAPH where performers created a journal or blog-style timeline of photos with captions. Aizuki’s, recorded while she was still a Cosmos Troupe member features the end of Chateau de la Reine through the start of rehearsals for A Motion.
Continue reading‘Fresh Questionnaire’ is a Kageki feature from 2012 about up-and-coming young stars. Riku’s was published in the March issue.
Fresh Questionnaire: Sorahane Riku, Cosmos Troupe
Recommendations from your hometown (places, local goods, etc):
Ookumitama shrine, ‘Musashinonisshi’ sweets1.
Favorite school subject:
In TMS it was Modern Dance.
The first Takarazuka show you saw:
Star Troupe’s Rose of Versailles: Oscar and Andre (2001).
Reason for taking the TMS entrance exam:
I liked being on stage, and I wanted to be able to try all sorts of dance styles.
How you felt when you first put on the TMS uniform:
I was so emotional, I was like ‘Wahh~’
Strongest memories from TMS:
Rehearsing with my classmates for events like the Western Dance Recital and the Culture Festival.
Essential things for the stage:
Drinks, feelings.
Method for escaping nervousness on stage:
I take a deep breath and trust in my rehearsals!!
How you spend the night before a show opens:
I run a mental simulation of opening day and try to go to bed with a good mental image.
What you focus on as an otokoyaku:
I work hard to be always seen as a male, or rather an otokoyaku, on stage.
A role you’d like to pay in the future:
There are a lot of roles I’d like to try challenging myself with, but I really want to play a character who has an epic romance.
Someone you’d like to meet:
Figure skater Takahashi Daisuke. (I was so moved by him at the end of last year.2)
Qualifications:
I have a driver’s license.
The shampoo you use currently:
KERASTASE.
Favorite OOO (insert 3 categories instead of OOO):
Favorite film – Pirates of the Caribbean, favorite food – (my mother’s) harumaki, favorite pattern – leopard print.
Do you have a pet?
I hope to have one someday.
Something you always make sure to do for your health:
Stretching, I suppose…
When do you have the most fun?
When I’m laughing from the bottom of my heart.
Your signature color:
Sky blue.
If you were an animal, what would you be?
A horse or maybe…a pegasus!? (Kind of…since I had the role of YAMATO in NICE GUY!!3)
Your ‘charm point’:
I’m not really sure myself…
An instrument you can play:
Tenor horn.
1 – Musashinonisshi sweets are cream-filled mini baumkuchens
2 – In late 2011 Takahashi achieved many medals and made the Japanese Winter Olympics team.
3 – YAMATO is a sort of pegasus/unicorn creature that appears throughout the NICE GUY!! revue, which was produced in 2011.