{"id":617,"date":"2017-12-06T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/?p=617"},"modified":"2021-01-09T22:38:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T05:38:50","slug":"to-the-future-karen-yui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/06\/to-the-future-karen-yui\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Future: Karen Yui"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the Future is a small&nbsp;<em>GRAPH<\/em>&nbsp;interview of junior actresses. This one was published in the June 2017 issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To the Future: Karen Yui<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Profile<\/strong><br><em>Debut:<\/em>&nbsp;April 2015, 1789,&nbsp;<em>Les Amants de la Bastille<\/em><br><em>Nickname:<\/em>&nbsp;Yui<br><em>Birthday:<\/em>&nbsp;September 6<br><em>Hometown:<\/em>&nbsp;Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture<br><em>Offstage interests:&nbsp;<\/em>Watching all sorts of musical films<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>First Takarazuka show:<\/em><br>It was&nbsp;<em>Elisabeth<\/em>, starring Mizu Natsuki. I loved it and watched the DVD constantly, so much that the cover got all beat up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>School clubs:<\/em><br>I didn\u2019t enter any clubs, and every day after school or on days off I went to a dance school. If I hadn\u2019t started dance I don\u2019t think I would be who I am today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Motivation for taking TMS entrance exam:<\/em><br>The first time I saw&nbsp;<em>Elisabeth<\/em>&nbsp;I fell in love with the gorgeous world of Takarazuka, as well as Mizu Natzuki and Shirahane Yuri\u2019s acting, so I thought \u2018There\u2019s nowhere else for me!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Memories of the debut performance:<\/em><br>Since I was given the opportunity to appear in the play as well, I was able to see how amazing the senior actresses were up close. I was moved and surprised every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A role that had a deep impression:<\/em><br>Frieda Flamme [Flaemschen] (Main cast: Saotome Wakaba\/Umino Mitsuki), who I was given the opportunity to play in the shinjin kouen of Grand Hotel. While everything was new to me, I was able to fully experience how fun acting and getting into character is, and I was very happy to live as Flaemschen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Senior actresses I admire:<\/em><br>Maihane Mimi-san and Shirayuki Sachika-san. I respect their way of thinking and behaving as musumeyaku, and I love them for being such bright and wonderful people!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dreams as a performer:<\/em><br>I want to become a stage performer who can perform in such a way that if gives happy feeling to the people who come to see Takarazuka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Future is a small&nbsp;GRAPH&nbsp;interview of junior actresses. This one was published in the June 2017 issue. To the Future: Karen Yui ProfileDebut:&nbsp;April 2015, 1789,&nbsp;Les Amants de la BastilleNickname:&nbsp;YuiBirthday:&nbsp;September 6Hometown:&nbsp;Nagoya, Aichi PrefectureOffstage interests:&nbsp;Watching all sorts of musical films First &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/06\/to-the-future-karen-yui\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[13,360,145,73,178],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}