(Not much left in the semester to talk about. I'm winding down and am now starting finals. I have only one 'trip' left before I go home, and that will be after the graduation ceremony. Osaka Castle, which I've tried to go to several times, but it's never worked out. So I will go after he 22nd.)
Last Saturday I had the most amzing experience of my life. Thanks from a reccomendatin from Mieko, the gang, and a few other people I didn't know, went to go see Takarazuka's Moon Troupe perform The Scarlet Pimpernel! Takarazuka is an all female acting group. The concept of females acting as males is that an androgenous man is the ideal man in Japan, so the females that portray the male lead characters are the perfect men. I have to admit, that they do a really good job to. The males/females live as men untill they retire from te group where they revert back to being females. It is very interesting, (they are not gay, living like a man just makes their performance better).
So Takarazuka is a blend of Broadway and a Las Vegas show. The Moon Troupe is famous for it's musicals, and that's what we saw. We saw The Scarlet Pimpernel, it was fanastic, even if we had to struggle to understand. (All in Japanese) And in true Takarazuka fashion, when the main play ends, they put on a revue, the Las Vegas-type show. I will link videos to show my meaning.
But my advice for anyone visiting Japan, is GO SEE TAKARAZUKA. ANY troupe(They have 5 different troupes). YOU WILL LOVE IT!
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