I’ve already written most of the content of Yuya’s speech above but he looked really cute when he demonstrated how sloooowly he exits the scene as Shu then pretended to dash from the balcony to the arena. He reminded everyone that tomorrow (Aug 29) is Reiji’s birthday so he’ll be on standby (on Twitter) from 11:50 for everyone’s birthday greetings. Kazumi Doi (Subaru) mentioned about them being eternal vampires (which made everyone go ?) but backtracked and said something like “we’ll be vampires inside forever.” Shungo Takasaki (Reiji) recalled wishing he could reprise his role as Reiji again one year ago and was very happy to be able to play Reiji again. Both Richter and Cordelia were worried about being new in the cast but they expressed their gratitude to the staff, other cast members and the fans for welcoming them. This is where I learned that four out of five ensemble members, as well as Richter’s actor and Cordelia’s actress were new in the rerun. Speaking of post-show speeches, since this is the final show (千秋楽), each member of the cast was given the chance to say a few words.
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Seriously, why they decided to do the rerun in club eX is a mystery to me. They just used one part of the balcony for the Kanato falling scene and some other Cordelia scenes. Yuya also mentioned that the actors had to dash from the balcony to the arena since having the same stage setup as the first run was difficult for club eX. I can’t remember clearly if it was the same in the first run (I haven’t watched the DVD so I’m basing all on memory from last year’s run ^^ ) Yuya Asato (Shuu) mentioned Ayumi Takamune’s (Yui) inhuman speed backstage when changing costumes in his post-show speech. I noticed Yui and Shuu did some costume change during the play (Yui changed from casual clothes to her school uniform to Cordelia’s black dress) while Shuu was wearing his casual clothes in the bathtub scene. The venue’s acoustics is really good, maybe that’s why their singing sounded very nice, Idk. They also inserted two more singing parts in addition to the opening and closing parts in the play, one before the banquet and another one before Yui’s reawakening (if I remember correctly, since I was already dozing off in this part). The girl to my left even started fidgeting with her bromide sets at some point in the play. Without all the background props, all you have left were two people talking and talking and talking with no background music. I don’t remember the first run being this dragging I was almost falling asleep towards the end of the play. Less props meant more improvisation somewhere else, which meant more lines for the cast. The rest were small things the cast member himself would use can carry: a takoyaki box, a small stool with a few bottles to represent Reiji’s lab, a tray of teapot and teacups for Yui and Reiji’s scene, and so on.
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The heaviest props they used are probably the sofa set (as seen in the featured photo) and Shuu’s bathtub. Yes! There were no flight of stairs from the first run, nor Yui’s four-poster bed or Ayato’s “cardboard” coffin, not even the dining table used for the banquet (they had air dinner lol).
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Since the seats are not elevated by row, it’s really hard to see what’s happening at the far end of the stage, and heads keep on blocking your view.Īnyway, since the previous setup was difficult for this kind of hall, they did away with all the big props. At first, I was wondering how they’d do the set this time because if you read my report on the Fushigi Yuugi stage play (yep! FY stage was done at the same venue), the club eX’s hall is round and the stage is right at the center, with chairs placed side by side in blocks around the stage. What’s different from the first run was of course, the venue. Cordelia reawakening within Yui, Ayato throwing Yui into the pond but saves her anyway scene, the fight scene between the brothers and Richter and his goons, Yui being reborn as a vampire. The brothers take turns at drinking her blood one by one, starting with Ayato (the takoyaki scene) then Shu (the bathtub scene), the banquet scene (insert Laito explaining to Yui about Ayato and Shuu’s complicated rivalry), Kanato (the Scarborough Fair, jumping from the balcony, and wax dolls scenes), Subaru (insert Richter’s appearance and the silver knife scene), Laito (the sucking Yui’s blood from her thighs inside a freakig church scene), and finally Reiji, after explaining (again!) to Yui how the triplets killed Cordelia. The story this time is basically the same as last time: Yui finds herself in the Sakamaki mansion.