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Stage Your Lie in April Musical Will Play in London in April 2024
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Tickets are Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso) manga. The venue will be the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London on Monday April 8 2024 and Tuesday April 9 2024, both at 7.30 p.m.
The musical was slated to begin its Japanese run in July 2020, but was delayed due to the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. It ran at Tokyo's Nissay Theatre in Tokyo in May 2022, before touring throughout Japan in June and July that year.
Frank Wildhorn, an American composer known for songs sung by Whitney Houston ("Where Do Broken Hearts Go?") and Natalie Cole, scored the musical. Wildhorn also previously Mary and The Witch's Flower) wrote the book.
Arakawa's original manga follows Kōsei Arima, a former child prodigy who lost his ability to play the piano when his mother died. His daily life is monochrome, but it begins to gain color when he meets a female violinist by chance. Kaori Miyazono is an audacious go-getter who is overflowing with personality. Enchanted by the girl, Kōsei begins to rediscover his love for piano when Kaori invites him to be her accompanist for a competition.
The manga debuted in Kodansha Comics released the manga in North America, and released the 11th and final volume in December 2018.
A television anime series of Arakawa's manga premiered in 2014, animated by stage play debuted in 2017.
Via Anime UK News.
