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Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, Duncan Sheik‘s caller philharmonic based connected nan Manga schematic novel, will premiere Off Broadway this fall, producers announced today.
The production, featuring euphony and lyrics by Sheik, will unfastened astatine a caller Chelsea vicinity venue called The Night Egg, named aft a French brothel successful nan Japanese novel. The venue is located successful nan Chelsea Club, formerly nan 14-year location of nan immersive production Sleep No More.
Produced by Kenny Kurokawa, Rayman and Executive Producer Antonio Marion, who announced nan premiere, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen will beryllium directed and choreographed by Tony victor Rob Ashford (Frozen, Thoroughly Modern Millie).
The caller philharmonic will characteristic a book by Leah Nanako Winkler and euphony supervision by Or Matias, and is thought to beryllium nan first Manga to beryllium developed into an American philharmonic successful nan English language.
Additional details, including dates and casting, will beryllium announced astatine a later date.
“When Rob Ashford approached maine astir perchance penning nan people for a communicative based connected a celebrated Manga written by Moyoco Anno, I was flattered but a spot flummoxed,” Sheik said successful a statement. “But erstwhile I sewage rolling on pinch Leah’s guidance and fantabulous ideas astir really to accommodate it, I was hooked. We each felt a much unsocial venue was champion suited to this benignant of production, wherever nan assemblage has immoderate state of activity and is not bound to a velvet seat. I americium genuinely excited to thief put this activity successful beforehand of an audience, particularly pinch this astonishing group of creatives who comprise nan team.”
Based connected Moyoco Anno’s award-winning schematic novel, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen is, according to nan synopsis, astir Colette, “a witty young illusionist successful 20th Century Paris who finds her powerfulness done writing. While moving astatine an elusive maison adjacent called Night Egg, she originates chronicling nan fantasies, confessions, and backstage sorrows of her eccentric clients, slow transforming herself from entity to observer—turning perversions into art. But underneath her crisp intelligence and increasing independence, Colette has her ain perversion she cannot outrun: a lingering, destructive attachment to Léon, her puerility love, whose toxic clasp connected her continues to blur nan statement betwixt devotion and self-destruction.”
The afloat accumulation squad for nan position besides includes subordinate producers Nobu Matsukura, Shin Yamada, Yu Anne Ando, Mika Furuya, Ryohei Otani, and Yumi.
The Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen caller was serialized successful a Manga mag from 2013 to 2018, and later published arsenic a two-volume set. It received nan Excellence Award astatine nan Japan Media Arts Festival successful 2020.
