{"id":573,"date":"2017-10-11T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2021-01-09T22:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T05:44:06","slug":"triple-4-ootori-mayu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/triple-4-ootori-mayu\/","title":{"rendered":"TRIPLE 4 – Ootori Mayu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TRIPLE 4 is a Kageki<\/em> feature where siennes list their top 3 favorites in 4 different Takarazuka-related categories. Ootori Mayu\u2019s was published in the July 2016 issue, along with Tenju Mitsuki\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, a lot of these shows I haven\u2019t seen so I have to go by her descriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

TRIPLE 4 – Ootori Mayu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Characters I\u2019ve played who are most like me<\/em>
1. Victorian Jazz,<\/em> Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Phantom <\/em>junior performance, the Phantom
3. Me and My Girl<\/em>, Cedric Parchester
Althought Doyle was a real person, the way Director Tabuchi wrote him was quite close to my own personality\u2026the way he gets carried away with things is totally me (laughs). I was also given a lot of liberty in the performance, so looking back I can almost say it was just me onstage. I really had a lot of freedom with that character (laughs).
Eric (the Phantom) was a really hard role, and I recieved a lot of instruction from Ranju (Tomu)-san who had the real part, but I decided I should start out with the character by finding aspects that were similar to me. And there were a surprising amount of things we had in common\u2026As I got deeper into character I felt \u2018he\u2019s really a lot like me\u2019.
On the other hand, with Parchester, I really struggled to get a grasp on the character, so I decided I might as well play it as myself for once. When I did that ‘what would I do in this situation\u2019 part really took off, so I think he became more like me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shows that made me cry the most as an audience member<\/em>
1. Arc de Triomphe<\/em>
2. The Dancing Girl<\/em>
3. For the People<\/em>
I saw\u00a0Arc de Triomphe<\/em>\u00a0while I was a student1<\/sup>, and it made me cry more than I ever had in my life until then. Todoroki-san\u2019s lead role, Ravic, was a gorgeous study in otokoyaku aesthetics, amazingly cool! In the twilight before WWII, a surgeon dies a beautiful death\u2026accompanied by the beautiful music it was so heart-wrenching and I cried so much.
In\u00a0The Dancing Girl<\/em>, the heroine was played by my classmate Nono Sumika-chan, and I could feel the amount of passion the performers were putting into it, and the story was both sad and dramatic. I remember being really moved by it.
I know I was actually in\u00a0Lincoln<\/em>, but looking at it from the outside, I was delighted to be in the same show with Todoroki-san from Arc de Triomphe – I couuldn\u2019t take my eyes off her in rehearsal for a single moment! It might be because of those incredible days that I would sometimes start crying on stage when I thought about Lincoln\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favorite songs I\u2019ve performed<\/em>
1. Phantom <\/em>junior performance, the Phantom\u2019s song ‘My Mother Bore Me\u2019
2. For the People<\/em>, ‘For the People\u2019
3. Me and My Girl<\/em>, Parchester\u2019s song ‘The Family Solicitor\u2019
I love all the songs in\u00a0Phantom<\/em>, but in this one, I think the character\u2019s emotions in the moment are expressed the most clearly. Since the junior performance only happens once, everything had to be settled on ahead of time, but I couldn\u2019t sing this song without having Misaki Rion-chan\u2019s performance as Christine to react to. That song taught me how to completely immerse myself in a character\u2019s emotions while singing.
This song from\u00a0For The People<\/em>\u00a0is a number where everyone gathers around Lincoln to sing about their hope for the future, so the feeling of unity was really strong – even the audience would get caught up on it and it was as if the whole theatre came together as one. I could practically feel it. It was unforgettable.
In Parchester\u2019s song, even though everyone around is really proper they get swept up in it (laughs); it\u2019s really fun to watch them start to enjoy themselves, and I\u2019ve always liked it. Being able to sing it myself made me like it even more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Characters who most make me feel ‘I want to be them!\u2019<\/em>
1. Elisabeth<\/em>, Elisabeth
2. West Side Story<\/em>, Tony
3. PUCK<\/em>, Puck
Elisabeth was a real person, but of course I first heard of her when I saw Takarazuka\u2019s\u00a0Elisabeth<\/em>. At first I feel in love with the show, and then as I researched the historical background, I became more interested in Elisabeth as a person. Of course there\u2019s depth to anyone\u2019s life, but to inspire such a fantastical musical\u2026I yearn for a life with the kind of drama Elisabeth\u2019s had, I suppose.
As for Tony, in the first place, I like the world of 1950s America that he lived in. So while basically I would like to time travel back to that era, I also feel like I want to experience the life of such a passionate, energetic young man; in mere days he meets and falls in love with Maria, to the point of losing his life in the end.
Puck is a fairy, so of course I am really interested in what it would be like to live as something other than human!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 – The original Arc de Triomphe<\/em> productions were prior to Ootori’s entry into TMS, so she means mainstream schooling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TRIPLE 4 is a Kageki feature where siennes list their top 3 favorites in 4 different Takarazuka-related categories. Ootori Mayu\u2019s was published in the July 2016 issue, along with Tenju Mitsuki\u2019s. Again, a lot of these shows I haven\u2019t seen so I … 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":[30,20],"tags":[13,360,141,42,148],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}