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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese actress in the Takarazuka Revue

Takarazuka Revue

The Takarazuka Revue is a Japanese all-female musical theater troupe based in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of Western-style musicals, and sometimes stories adapted from shōjo manga and Japanese folktales. The troupe takes its name...

's Flower Troupe, where she performs as a musumeyaku (actress specializing in female roles).

Background

Sakurano is from Tsuyama. She made her debut in the revue in 2002, and, in 2006, became the first of her class to attain the status of top star. She was the third and the last top star partner of Sumire Haruno

Sumire Haruno

is a former member of Takarazuka Revue, specializing in otokoyaku. She joined the revue in 1991, became the top star in 2002 and resigned from the company in 2007...

. Currently, she is the most senior among the five musumeyaku top stars.

Junior Cast

(April, 2002) —

• Elisabeth
  Elisabeth (musical)
  Elisabeth is a Viennese, German-language musical commissioned by the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien , with book/lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Sylvester Levay. It portrays the life and death of the Empress consort of Austria, Elisabeth of Bavaria, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I...
  
  (October, 2002) — Black Angel
• La Esperanza (August–November, 2004) — Tracy

Regular Cast

(May, 2003) — Sen-hime

• A Tale of Two Cities
  A Tale of Two Cities
  A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature....
  
  (October, 2003) — Lucie Manette (Bow Hall performance, starring Jun Sena
  Jun Sena
  , is a Japanese actress and former top star of the Takarazuka Revue's Moon Troupe, a Japanese theatre organization in which women portray all parts. She was born April 1, 1974 and grew up in Suginami, Tokyo. During her time in the Revue, she was an otokoyaku, an actress who specializes in male roles...
  
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• Season of Angels (2004) — Ambassador's Wife (May–June, 2004) — Amina (March–July, 2005) — Olga O'Brien
• Kurawanka (2005) — Enyouhaku (Bow Hall performance, starring Ranju Tomu)
• Kurawanka (2005) — Ohatsu (Bow Hall performance, starring Aine Harei) (November, 2005) — Henriette

Top Star

• Appartement Cinéma (March, 2006) — Anna; Top Star debut show
• Phantom
  Phantom (musical)
  Phantom is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Arthur Kopit. Based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, the musical was first presented in Houston, Texas in 1991....
  
  (2006) — Christine Daae; Top Star debut show at the Grand Theater (2006) — Marie Vetsera
  Baroness Mary Vetsera
  Baroness Marie Alexandrine von Vetsera was a member of Austrian high society nobility and one of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria's mistresses...
  
  
• Notebook of Kogorou Akechi — The Black Lizard - Madame Midorikawa (Black Lizard)
• Adieu Marseille (September–December, 1007) — Marienne
• Melancholic Gigolo - Felicia
• Love and Death in Arabia - Anoud
• Rose of Versailles Side Story: Alain - Diane
• The Legend
  The Legend (TV series)
  Legend is a South Korean TV series created by Kimjonghak Production that aired on MBC.The story is loosely based on the legend of Dangun and Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo. The story also adds mythical elements of the Four Symbols depicted in fantasy form as the four guardians who serve the...
  
  - Kiha
• Sorrowful Cordoba - Eva Silvestre
• Me and My Girl
  Me and My Girl
  Me and My Girl is a musical with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay. It takes place in the late 1930s in Hampshire, Mayfair, and Lambeth....
  
  - Sally Smith
• Rose of Versailles Side Story: Andre - Maryse
• Partners - Paris

External links

• (ja) Takarazuka Revue Company Website
• (ja) The official profile