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6th Death Note The Musical English Song Features Light, L, Misa
posted on by Karen Ressler
The Death Note the Musical debuted on the official website on Friday. The song features Jeremy Jordan (Newsies), Jarrod Spector (Beautiful), and Adrienne Warren (Dreamgirls, Bring It On: The Musical) as Light, L, and Misa.
Although the songs are in English and are sung by English actors, there is no word on an English version of the musical at this time.
The cast of the Japanese performances 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. The Japanese cast Kenji Urai and Hayato Kakizawa — the actors who share the starring role of Light Yagami — sung "Bunshiten" (Junction) in a video released last year.
Jiji Press is streaming a longer video showing song performances by Teppei Koike (L) and Fuku Yuzuki (Misa).
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. 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 Viz Pictures released the three live-action films in American theaters.
