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Death Note The Musical Cast Photographed in Costume
posted on by Egan Loo
The stage musical of Death Note unveiled its main cast in costume on Monday. The production also announced its official title: Death Note The Musical. The cast includes:
- as Light Yagami (shared role)
- Tōfu Kozō) as the genius detective L
- Shinigami-kun) as Misa Amane
- SUPER☆GiRLS idol) as Sayu Yagami
- Megumi Hamada as Rem
- Kōtarō Yoshida (Hanako to Anne, MOZU) as Ryuk
- Takeshi Kaga as Sōichirō Yagami
Kaga is reprising his role as Sōichirō Yagami from the live-action Death Note films.
Frank Wildhorn, an American composer known for songs sung by Whitney Houston ("Where Do Broken Hearts Go?") and Natalie Cole, is scoring the Death Note musical. Tamiya Kuriyama, a recipient of the Japanese government's Medal with Purple Ribbon, is directing. Jack Murphy (The Civil War, Rudolf, Carmen, Wonderland, The Count of Monte Cristo) is writing the lyrics, and Ivan Menchell (The Cemetery Club, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bonnie and Clyde) is writing the script. Jason Howland is in charge of musical supervision, arrangements and orchestrations.
The musical will run at Tokyo's Nissay Theatre from April 6 to April 29 of next year. It will then travel to Osaka and Nagoya in May. It will also run in South Korea from July to August, but with a different cast.
In three live-action films in American theaters.
Source: Comic Natalie
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