Your Lie In April | |
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Music | Frank Wildhorn |
Lyrics | Tracy Miller Carly Robyn Green |
Book | Riko Sakaguchi (Japanese) Rinne B. Groff (English) |
Basis | Your Lie in April by Naoshi Arakawa |
Productions | 2022 Tokyo World Premiere 2024 London Concert Premiere 2024 West End 2024 Seoul Korean Premiere |
Your Lie in April is a musical based on the manga series Your Lie in April written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa. The show features a score with music by Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn and lyrics by Tracy Miller and Carly Robyn Green, a Japanese book by Riko Sakaguchi, an English-language book by Rinne B. Groff, and arrangements and orchestrations by Jason Howland. The show is a co-production between Toho Co. Ltd. and Fuji Television. [1]
After delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show made its world premiere in May 2022 at the Nissay Theatre in Tokyo, directed by Ikko Ueda. [2] The original Japanese cast featured Yuta Koseki and Tatsunari Kimura as Kosei Arima (double cast), Jpop singer and former Nogizaka46 member Erika Ikuta as Kaori Miyazono, Fuka Yuduki as Tsubaki Sawabe, and Koka Mizuta and Takuto Teranishi as Ryota Watari (double cast). [3] A nationwide tour followed throughout Japan, featuring the original cast. [4]
An English-language concert staging, with direction by Nick Winston and produced by Carter Dixon McGill Productions and Indie Theatricals, ran from April 8 to 9 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on London's West End to rave reviews. [5] Zheng Xi Yong and Rumi Sutton led as Kosei and Kaori, while Rachel Clare Chan and Dean John-Wilson returned from the Death Note concerts as Tsubaki and Watari. [6] Joanna Ampil portrayed Kosei's mother. [7] Justin Williams was the designer of the Death Note concerts and Your Lie in April.
Weeks after its preview West End concert run, a full West End production was announced. The show began previews on 28 June 2024 and officially opened on 5 July 2024, where it received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. It was initially set to run until 21 September 2024 at the Harold Pinter Theatre but closed early on 11 August 2024. [8]
A Korean premiere in Seoul has also been announced, opening in June 2024 and running through August 2024 at the CJ Towol Theatre at the Seoul Performing Arts Center. Produced by EMK Musical Company, the show will star K-Pop idols and TV/film stars triple cast and double cast as leads: Lee Hong-ki from FT Island, Yoon So-ho, and Kim Hee-jae as Kosei; Lee Bom-sori, Kei from Lovelyz and EL7Z Up, and Jung Ji-so from Parasite as Kaori; Lee Jae-jin from FT Island, Kim Jin-wook, and Cho Hwan-ji as Watari; and Park Si-in and Hwang Woo-rim as Tsubaki. [9]
Another Japanese production is set to make its premiere in August till September 2025, the cast features Kurumu Okamiya and Misato Higashijima as Kosei Arima (double cast), Ririka Kato and former Juice=Juice member Karin Miyamoto as Kaori Miyazono (double cast), Shio Kisui and Saki Yamamoto as Tsubaki Sawabe (double cast), and Masato Yoshihara and Taisei Shima as Ryota Watari (double cast).
A Japanese-language concept album with 11 songs from the show was released in 2020, featuring Erika Ikuta, Yuta Koseki, Tatsunari Kimura, Fuka Yuzuki, and Kouki Mizuta. [10]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Performer | Length |
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1. | "If I Can't Hear the Music" | Carly Robyn Green / Tracy Miller | Frank Wildhorn | Yuta Koseki / Tatsunari Kimura | 5:25 |
2. | "Just Like a Movie" | Carly Robyn Green / Tracy Miller | Frank Wildhorn | Yuta Koseki / Tatsunari Kimura | 3:39 |
3. | "Who Put You in Charge Here?" | Carly Robyn Green / Tracy Miller | Frank Wildhorn | Yuta Koseki / Tatsunari Kimura / Erika Ikuta | 3:14 |
4. | "Perfect" | Carly Robyn Green / Tracy Miller | Frank Wildhorn | Erika Ikuta | 3:56 |
5. | "The Beautiful Game" | Carly Robyn Green / Tracy Miller | Frank Wildhorn | Kouki Mizuta | 4:30 |
6. | "Where's My Superhero?" | Carly Robyn Green / Tracy Miller | Frank Wildhorn | Fuka Yuzuki | 4:51 |
7. | "Speed of Sound" | Carly Robyn Green / Tracy Miller | Frank Wildhorn | Erika Ikuta / Fuka Yuduki / Yuta Koseki / Tatsunari Kimura / Kouki Mizuta | 3:22 |
8. | "Catch a Shooting Star" | Carly Robyn Green / Tracy Miller | Frank Wildhorn | Erika Ikuta / Yuta Koseki / Tatsunari Kimura | 4:18 |
9. | "One Hundred Thousand Million Stars" | Carly Robyn Green / Tracy Miller | Frank Wildhorn | Erika Ikuta / Yuta Koseki / Tatsunari Kimura | 3:41 |
10. | "100 Lost Days" | Carly Robyn Green / Tracy Miller | Frank Wildhorn | Fuka Yuzuki / Yuta Koseki / Tatsunari Kimura / Kouki Mizuta | 4:53 |
11. | "I Can Hear You" | Carly Robyn Green / Tracy Miller | Frank Wildhorn | Yuta Koseki / Tatsunari Kimura | 3:47 |
This is a list of the songs in the show. Songs that are featured on the Japanese concept recording have characters' names listed next to the titles. Act 1 and Act 2 are not guaranteed to be split like they are here. [11]
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