{"id":1074,"date":"2019-08-19T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2021-01-09T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T02:29:58","slug":"5-episodes-that-time-back-then-makaze-suzuho-cosmos-troupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/19\/5-episodes-that-time-back-then-makaze-suzuho-cosmos-troupe\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Episodes: \u2018That time back then\u2026\u2019 (Makaze Suzuho, Cosmos Troupe)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

5 Episodes is a 2019 Kageki <\/em>feature for the 105th year of the Takarazuka Revue\u2019s operation. Makaze\u2019s was published in the April issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

5 Episodes: \u2018That time back then\u2026\u2019 (Makaze Suzuho, Cosmos Troupe)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the 105th anniversary of the Takarazuka Revue, we\u2019re presenting anecdotes of \u2018that time back then\u2026\u2019 themed around the number 5!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 years old<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Episode 1<\/em>
Apparently I played a mouse in my kindergarten play, although I don\u2019t remember it (laughs). When I was looking at some photos I thought \u2018What\u2019s this mouse?\u2019 and my mother said, \u201cYou played a mouse.\u201d Although, I actually might not yet have been 5 years old then. Maybe I was 4 years old? I\u2019m a bit unsure about that situation\u2026 You see, in kindergarten I actually went through the middle year twice. When I enrolled, I ought to have been in the junior class by age, but I threw a tantrum and said that I wanted to be in the same class as an older girl from the neighborhood I was friends with, so I was given special permission to enroll in the middle class. Therefore, I don\u2019t have a clear distinction between when I was 4 or 5 (laughs). I wonder which year that mouse was from\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Episode 2<\/em>
This is another story from sometime when I was in kindergarten\u2026 you know how there are rooms with lots of colored balls all over the floor and you run around and play on them? I was running around in their too vigorously and apparently I broke pinky toe. So I ended up in a cast, at just the age when I wanted to run around the most (laughs). I remember that the cast really got in the way when I was trying to play. Even now, every time I see kids playing around on play equipment like that I\u2019ll think to myself \u2018Please be careful\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5th grade<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, everyone was really into shooting rubber bands, and I know I\u2019m the one saying this (laughs), but I think I was really good at it. I\u2019d keep shooting rubber bands whenever we had a break. I was constantly polishing my skills\u2026I had a \u2018rubber band life\u2019. Also, once I barely escaped dying after falling off a swing set\u2026 After school, all of us were playing around trying to see how far we could get our shoes to fly from the swings, but I got too excited about swinging. Somehow I ended up letting go of the swings. And then I flew straight into the ground\u2026 I wasn\u2019t seriously injured, but because of the impact I wasn\u2019t able to breathe for a moment, so I learned from experience \u2018I should never let go of the swings!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken-5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of my ken-3 year I had my first shinjin kouen lead, and when I was ken-4 I had Yuzuki (Reon)-san\u2019s shinjin kouen role for her Top Star debut performance, so at that time I was desperately trying to deal with what was right in front of me, so there were a lot of things I wasn\u2019t able to properly sort out within myself. It was just so much\u2026 But when I became ken-5, there were a lot of things I was able to pick up on since I\u2019d had those previous experiences from lead roles, even if it was just in shinjin kouens. I feel like it was a time when I was able to think once more about what I wanted to do from now on. Also, around that time I encountered the role of Death in Romeo et Juliette<\/em>, and I was able to act closely together with Yuzuki-san and other senior actresses, and also experience what it was like to use my body to express myself without speaking, so it gave me an opportunity to think once again about \u2018what it means to perform on stage\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 years ago<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Episode 1<\/em>
5 years ago was the 100th year of the Takarazuka Revue. I had the opportunity to be in the year\u2019s opening performance. On January 1st, opening day, Todoroki-san and the Top Stars of all 5 troupes came to address the audience. Even though I was so busy before the start of the performance, I remember that I dashed to the wings to watch them. Also, that was when I was in the Sports Festival with all the Star Troupe members from back then! I can\u2019t leave that out. To put it frankly, we won! (laughs). All of us in the troupe practiced like our lives depended on it. We were saying \u2018Chie-san (Yuzuki) has to hold that winner\u2019s trophy!\u2019 I was so exhausted after the tug-of-war practice that my hands were shaking (laughs), but our hopes came true\u2026 It was so much fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Episode 2<\/em>
This was the year I was able to perform on the stage of the Budokan. It\u2019s not an experience most people have in their lifetime so I\u2019m really grateful, and being on that stage I was able to see the extent of Yuzuki-san\u2019s performance power and her realm of entertainment, so I suppose I can say that I was impacted at how wonderful \u2018entertainment\u2019 is. That I was born to be able to do that left a big impression on me\u2026 That performance really made me think about what it is, as a stage performer, to \u2018make people happy\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 weeks ago<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was the first day when we arrived at the Hakata-za. We had the dress rehearsal for Dark Eyes. It was my first time in the Hakata-za since when I was in Romeo et Juliette at ken-5. The next day we had the dress rehearsal for the revue, but it was my first time ever doing a revue show in Hakata-za, so when the curtain opened for that on the first day I thought \u2018so this is what it feels like!\u2019 at the audience\u2019s enthusiasm\u2013it was a really fresh feeling. For dress rehearsals, you have the sets there in front of you, and the costumes on, so you have that day to get used to everything and put everything together, which is a really unique atmosphere, and also you have the quick changes and things on top of that, and all the time has to be used thoroughly, so 5 weeks ago was a really tough day for me, I think. I was thinking about what I\u2019d have to do the next day of dress rehearsals to make sure the audience could have the most fun. And I was a little nervous and also excited about the opening day coming up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 hours from now<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is the first day of rehearsals for Ocean\u2019s 11<\/em>, so 5 hours from now I might be reading the script, or singing the songs. Of course it\u2019s always both nervous and exciting on the first day of working on something new. This time around it\u2019s a show I\u2019ve already performed in, so I\u2019m used to it, but I want to find something new within myself and work together with all the Cosmos Troupe members to make a new Ocean\u2019s 11 from square one, and today is the first day I\u2019ll be able to go through the script with everyone, so I wonder how it will turn out. Of course it\u2019s not like I don\u2019t have any concerns, but I\u2019m also extremely excited. \u201cI want to make sure the audience will love the final result, so I\u2019ll do my best looking forward to the opening day!\u201d I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll be reading my script with something like that in mind 5 hours from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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