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GKIDS Releases Spirited Away Stage Play on BD on November 14, Digital on October 24
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Shout! Studios is distributing the home video release. GKIDS streamed an English-subtitled trailer:
The stage play will be available as a 2-disc set, which will feature the show's two different casts.
The company describes the show:
Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award®-winning* animated feature film comes to life in this first-ever stage adaptation full of dazzling sets, captivating musical numbers, and wondrous puppets of beloved characters. Adapted and directed by Tony Award® winner John Caird (Les Misérables), SPIRITED AWAY: Live on Stage features two unique casts and performances filmed during the show's acclaimed 2022 run at Tokyo's historic Imperial Theatre, featuring Mone Kamishiraishi as Chihiro.
The show's first run shipped in Japan on Blu-ray Disc on July 29.
Tony and Olivier Award-winning director and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Honorary Associate Director John Caird (Les Misérables, Nicholas Nickleby, Daddy Long Legs) wrote and directed the production.
GKIDS theatrically screened in North America on April 23 and 25, and the version with Kamishiraishi screened on April 27 and May 2.
Spirited Away was previously the highest-grossing Japanese film worldwide until sured the record. Spirited Away remains the only non-English-language title to win the Academy Awards' Best Animated Feature award, which it earned in 2003.
Source: Press release
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