Prognosis: death by umbrella
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fencer_xTuti.
Tsuchiya Yuuichi.
Thank you so much for being the guy you are. Thank you so much for making me like you so much that I went to see this play which had no one else in it but you, just because you're made of that much awesome.
Because it was a fucking amazing play without even counting your scenes (which were s,dfksdlfushdfiushd btw) ♥
or, translated, "Wait Until the Storm Comes." I got to Sunshine City quite early, as I'd intended to reserve![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lavenderlilly a copy of BuriMyu since she failed at reservations before she left, only to find out they were no longer taking them, awesome! Sorry hon :( I'll try and get you a copy today, though, or at least find out when I can pick one up. Everyone else--as SOON as I have net, I'll be taking formal orders >_<
So I got up into Sunshine Theater, which looks...well, pretty much the same to me, to be honest XD Supposedly there was some renovation? Well it HAS been a year XD I wouldn't notice I guess ^^;
I had a pretty good seat--6th row, kinda off to the side, but because the front two rows were taken out for set purposes, it wound up being "4th" row :D Excellent view of the stage, too!
The show itself was REALLY REALLY GOOD though *_____* It centers around this girl Yuuri (yes, girl. Yuuri XD) who wants to be a seiyuu. She lands a job, and on her first day of work she meets her costars, two of whom are guys who really don't like each other. They get into a fight when one of them insults the other's deaf sister, and Yuuri hears this voice in her head that says, "Die!" A few days later, the guy who insulted the other's sister tries to kill himself.
Yuuri's convinced the voice was from the other guy (Hatano I think is his name). She confronts him about it, and instead he starts harrassing her, saying she's got no confidence in her voice and that she's actually in love with her male best friend (Tuti) but she knows he'll never love her back because she's got a manly voice (she's an otokoyaku, meaning she plays young boys/ukes XD). They get into a fight and she hears the voice in her head again, sounding like Hatano again, saying, "If only you didn't have that voice, he'd love you!"
From that point on she finds she can't speak anymore. Koukichi (Tuti, her friend) worries like crazy over this, and together they try and find out what's going on and eventually uncover that Hatano can make people do whatever he tells them to with his "second voice". Supposedly it developed so that he could protect his sister, Yukie, since she's deaf (the actress playing her really WAS deaf, btw o__o), and so over the years he's killed off quite a few people >_>
All of this takes place as a typhoon is settling in on the country, and this adds to the suspense as some scenes take place outside, so there's lots of wind and lightning and rain effects. In the climactic scene, Tuti's character and Hatano are fighting, and Tuti smashes a window with an umbrella--actually smashing it (it was stage glass, designed to shatter but not fall to pieces).
Hatano is about to kill off Yuuri and Koukichi, but at Yukie's intervention, she manages to stop him, and he instead stabs himself with an umbrella. WHAT. Where you can purchase an umbrella sharp enough to stab yourself to death with, I don't know, but he does.
The play ends on a semi-happy note--Yuuri and Koukichi get together (kinda XD -- their relationship is REALLY cute)--but it's still kind of overlaid with this sense of drama and sadness, and you leave the theater feeling like it really affected you, which is what a good play SHOULD do.
I love that every time I leave these shows, I always feel like it was the best show I've ever seen (until a few hours later when I'm more coherent at least XD). This time it wasn't even that Tuti was in it--the entire production was just, I dunno, amazing! The effects, the music (hamykia uploaded the opening song on her journal :D It's REALLY good!), the whole performance by everyone in the cast, it was awesome.
I met up withhamykia again when we finished the show, and we wound up reserving tickets to see it again tomorrow XD Depending on funds, who knows--I may go see it AGAIN after that too *___* It's definitely one of the most moving plays I've seen in a while, it reminds me of how KG's Mizuno Puma made me feel (omg I still haven't upped the report for that! GAH.)--you were laughing through a good portion, but then at the end it really just hit you how serious a play it was.
If any of you have the opportunity to see this and are wondering if it's worth it: yes, it is. Not for Tuti (well, not JUST for Tuti :P) but for the value it contains on its own as a show worth seeing. Please go if you can, you definitely won't regret it!
Besides, Nagayan thought it was good, that should be proof enough :D
Tsuchiya Yuuichi.
Thank you so much for being the guy you are. Thank you so much for making me like you so much that I went to see this play which had no one else in it but you, just because you're made of that much awesome.
Because it was a fucking amazing play without even counting your scenes (which were s,dfksdlfushdfiushd btw) ♥
or, translated, "Wait Until the Storm Comes." I got to Sunshine City quite early, as I'd intended to reserve
lavenderlilly a copy of BuriMyu since she failed at reservations before she left, only to find out they were no longer taking them, awesome! Sorry hon :( I'll try and get you a copy today, though, or at least find out when I can pick one up. Everyone else--as SOON as I have net, I'll be taking formal orders >_< So I got up into Sunshine Theater, which looks...well, pretty much the same to me, to be honest XD Supposedly there was some renovation? Well it HAS been a year XD I wouldn't notice I guess ^^;
I had a pretty good seat--6th row, kinda off to the side, but because the front two rows were taken out for set purposes, it wound up being "4th" row :D Excellent view of the stage, too!
The show itself was REALLY REALLY GOOD though *_____* It centers around this girl Yuuri (yes, girl. Yuuri XD) who wants to be a seiyuu. She lands a job, and on her first day of work she meets her costars, two of whom are guys who really don't like each other. They get into a fight when one of them insults the other's deaf sister, and Yuuri hears this voice in her head that says, "Die!" A few days later, the guy who insulted the other's sister tries to kill himself.
Yuuri's convinced the voice was from the other guy (Hatano I think is his name). She confronts him about it, and instead he starts harrassing her, saying she's got no confidence in her voice and that she's actually in love with her male best friend (Tuti) but she knows he'll never love her back because she's got a manly voice (she's an otokoyaku, meaning she plays young boys/ukes XD). They get into a fight and she hears the voice in her head again, sounding like Hatano again, saying, "If only you didn't have that voice, he'd love you!"
From that point on she finds she can't speak anymore. Koukichi (Tuti, her friend) worries like crazy over this, and together they try and find out what's going on and eventually uncover that Hatano can make people do whatever he tells them to with his "second voice". Supposedly it developed so that he could protect his sister, Yukie, since she's deaf (the actress playing her really WAS deaf, btw o__o), and so over the years he's killed off quite a few people >_>
All of this takes place as a typhoon is settling in on the country, and this adds to the suspense as some scenes take place outside, so there's lots of wind and lightning and rain effects. In the climactic scene, Tuti's character and Hatano are fighting, and Tuti smashes a window with an umbrella--actually smashing it (it was stage glass, designed to shatter but not fall to pieces).
Hatano is about to kill off Yuuri and Koukichi, but at Yukie's intervention, she manages to stop him, and he instead stabs himself with an umbrella. WHAT. Where you can purchase an umbrella sharp enough to stab yourself to death with, I don't know, but he does.
The play ends on a semi-happy note--Yuuri and Koukichi get together (kinda XD -- their relationship is REALLY cute)--but it's still kind of overlaid with this sense of drama and sadness, and you leave the theater feeling like it really affected you, which is what a good play SHOULD do.
I love that every time I leave these shows, I always feel like it was the best show I've ever seen (until a few hours later when I'm more coherent at least XD). This time it wasn't even that Tuti was in it--the entire production was just, I dunno, amazing! The effects, the music (
hamykia uploaded the opening song on her journal :D It's REALLY good!), the whole performance by everyone in the cast, it was awesome.I met up with
hamykia again when we finished the show, and we wound up reserving tickets to see it again tomorrow XD Depending on funds, who knows--I may go see it AGAIN after that too *___* It's definitely one of the most moving plays I've seen in a while, it reminds me of how KG's Mizuno Puma made me feel (omg I still haven't upped the report for that! GAH.)--you were laughing through a good portion, but then at the end it really just hit you how serious a play it was. If any of you have the opportunity to see this and are wondering if it's worth it: yes, it is. Not for Tuti (well, not JUST for Tuti :P) but for the value it contains on its own as a show worth seeing. Please go if you can, you definitely won't regret it!
Besides, Nagayan thought it was good, that should be proof enough :D
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Date: 2008-08-25 06:24 pm (UTC)Do you know if there's a script I could buy or something?
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Date: 2008-08-26 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-26 01:48 am (UTC)They told us the one I just wrote above is the book Arashi is based on...so I wonder what this one is o_O They were selling "Atashi ga kirai na watashi no koe" at the show, but not this... *confused now*
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Date: 2008-08-21 04:12 pm (UTC)The one I saw is calmer, and makes you really wonder
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Date: 2008-08-22 12:42 am (UTC)If you were to be in Japan around then, for whatever reason, you could see it on the big screen :D Of course I'll be ripping it too when it comes out, though XD
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Date: 2008-08-22 06:21 pm (UTC)...They need to do that for more things. *_* Like...Tenimyu and Burimyu? And then export it to other countries, maybe?? :D :D
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Date: 2008-08-21 04:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-22 12:44 am (UTC)I'm going to buy some after the show, probably. There were, of course, plenty in Shibuya as well, but she bought her CD at Ikebukuro, and it has to be done at the same Animate you bought that at in order to get the box set. Shibuya Animate was selling the box sets the day they went on sale, so I dunno why you couldn't buy a box set extra :/
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Date: 2008-08-21 04:23 pm (UTC)plus, he usually manages to release the umbrella from there (sometimes it involves some pushing and pulling), but he didn't when you saw it, and just gave up and went on with the fight xDD that looked a bit different at the beginning because of that