{"id":392,"date":"2016-04-14T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2021-01-09T22:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T05:58:47","slug":"stage-turning-points-nanami-hiroki-star-troupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/14\/stage-turning-points-nanami-hiroki-star-troupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage Turning Points: Nanami Hiroki (Star Troupe)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this feature from\u00a0Kageki,<\/em>\u00a0Nanami talks about some of the roles she finds most memorable and how they\u2019ve affected her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage Turning Points: Nanami Hiroki (Star Troupe)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nanami\u2019s Turning Points<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April-May 2003: Takarazuka Floral Diary<\/em> – Debut<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 2005: Le Petit Jardin<\/em> (Bow) – Paul
<\/strong>This was the first time I had the same part through the whole show1<\/sup>, so during this performance I learned a lot about how important it is to inspire the audience while still enjoying myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 2007: THE SECOND LIFE<\/em> (Bow) – Mark White
<\/strong>I\u2019d never had a part that was so important to the overall story before, so I was really happy that I was allowed to have a chance at performing this role. In any case, I decided I\u2019d really give it my all, but by the time rehearsals were over I still hadn\u2019t managed to grasp his character\u2026 At that point, Michiko-san [Hokushou] said \u201cIf you don\u2019t just go for it you\u2019ll never get it, so why don\u2019t you try it once the way you want to do it?\u201d Those words gave me a lot of courage, and when I tried performing without overthinking it it became much more fun, and as a result that was a very memorable performance for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2009: Raindrops Fall on Roses <\/em>(junior performance) – Justin Belzac
<\/strong>My first junior lead
<\/em>This was my first junior lead, so even while I was struggling with the large amount of lines, of course this role also required me to do more dancing and singing: it was a performance I almost felt I wasn\u2019t going to survive. To make it through performing for 90 minutes I knew it would require tons of concentration, so I respect the Top Stars from the bottom of my heart for managing to do that and then perform in the revue show afterwards. On the day of my performance, I was somehow defiant and thought \u201cThis is everything I\u2019m capable of at this point,\u201d so I wasn\u2019t really nervous and just had fun with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 2011: Valentino<\/em> (Drama City) – Natacha Rambova
<\/strong>Aiming to communicate my performance
<\/em>I learned a ton of things from Director Koike. In particular, I learned that just thinking on the inside won\u2019t come across to the audience, so I felt like I had to work hard on studying ways of showing and communicating my performance. I wasn\u2019t really prepared for a female role, and I\u2019d never had a very feminine life, so understanding a woman\u2019s heart was difficult (laugh). But Yuuhi-san [Oozora Yuuhi] gave me a lot of advice about how important it was at this stage to experience both male and female roles and such, so it was a performance where I really expanded my horizons!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August-October 2012; January 2013: Legend of Galactic Heroes<\/em> – Wolfgang Mittermeyer; Paul von Oberstein
<\/strong>A performance without which I feel I wouldn\u2019t have made it here now
<\/em>I feel like without this performance, I wouldn\u2019t be at this point now, because of all the experiences I gained from it. I really liked the original work, so I wanted to perform in a way that would satisfy both Takarazuka fans and fans of the original work. While performing I also worked on how to show how cool the main character Reinhardt was. And then when I received the role of Oberstein in the Hakataza production, I thought, \u201cI\u2019m definitely going to do it like this!!\u201d and had a furious discussion with Director Koike about the image I had for it (laugh)\u2014I was aiming for an interpretation of the character that was faithful to the original work. During that performance, I realized that if I were to do things the way I wanted them I had to take responsibility for that, so I decided to keep myself together and take the stage with confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July-August 2013: the WILD Meets the WILD (Bow Hall) – Benjamin Northbrook
<\/strong>First Bow Hall lead
<\/em>Putting together the double-lead production with Hasumi [Yuuya]-san was really fun, and our parts allowed us to let our real selves go so we were able to perform cheerfully on stage without many concerns. While it was my first Bow Hall lead role, I really felt like I was living as my character onstage, and to tell the truth I didn\u2019t really feel much pressure. Even as I enjoyed having the chance to perform on center stage, I also had to consider during each performance how, as the lead performer, I would please the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 2013: Gone with the Wind<\/em> – Scarlett (switch role)
<\/strong>Performing the part of Scarlett in \u201cButler Version\u201d2<\/sup> is always difficult, and in this production I had so many things to do that I was constantly wondering \u201cshould I do it this way? Should I do it that way?\u201d That was all I could think of when it came time to go onstage. The first day as Scarlett, I was the most nervous I\u2019ve ever been in my life. If I ever became any more nervous than that I think I\u2019d die. I also had to do a pair dance on the Grand Stairs so I was feeling more pressure than ever before, but I decided \u201cin any case I\u2019ll follow along with Rika-san [Ouki Kaname]\u201d. As that thinking came through on stage, I think my performance made Butler seem even more appealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 2015: Catch Me If You Can<\/em> (Akasaka ACT Theatre) – Carl Hanratty
<\/strong>First performance after moving troupes
<\/em>Although this was my first performance since moving troupes, Sayumi-san [Kurenai] and I have similar personalities and ways of dealing with things, so from the very start I felt like I could perform naturally. This impression might be unrequited, though (laugh). When I\u2019m with Sayumi, it\u2019s really easy to communicate \u201cthis is how I want to perform\u201d so during this performance I really enjoyed my self as an actor while seeing those cues and responding to them. My feelings about changing troupes was that, no matter what troupe I\u2019m in, I want to perform in a way that entertains the audience, so I\u2019ll take on any challenge in order to accomplish that. Thanks to that I was able to dive into this role just after joining Star Troupe and be really happy every day of this production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 – Junior performers start out playing multiple background roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 – There is a variant script to Gone With The Wind<\/em> where Scarlett is the lead role, though it is no longer performed..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this feature from\u00a0Kageki,\u00a0Nanami talks about some of the roles she finds most memorable and how they\u2019ve affected her. Stage Turning Points: Nanami Hiroki (Star Troupe) Nanami\u2019s Turning Points April-May 2003: Takarazuka Floral Diary – Debut June 2005: Le Petit … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,4],"tags":[13,354,360,67,42,66],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}