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Takarazuka Girls' Operetta Troupe Performs In South Korea
Date: 11/1/2005
Japan's Takarazuka Girls' Operetta Troupe will perform for the first time in South Korea since the end of World War II. Currently scheduled for November 11-13th shows, the troope will put on their most popular stage show ever in the musical drama The Rose Of Versailles. The play is based on the Riyoko Ikeda manga. set in the French court at the time of the French Revolution. The stage drama, first ran from 1974 to 1976, then again in 1988-89, drawing an audience of about 4 million, centers on a royal guard commander who is really a girl who was reared as a boy and who disguises herself as a girl to woo a Swedish count away from Marie Antoinette in an effort to derail some political intrigue in the Palace of Versailles.
Source: Anime News Service