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First, the less-talked about news:
Takarazuka experienced its 1.5 millionth Elisabeth attendee. Granted, this number goes by ticket sales and thus is rather skewed, but it's impressive nonetheless! The lucky girl who was attendee number 1,500,000 was able to go on stage with the cast of Elisabeth during a special curtain call, have her picture taken, etc. Not only did she get to do THIS, but she also received a Visa gift card, junior suite hotel accomodations for two at Daiichi Hotel Tokyo and two SS seats for the Tokyo shonichi Elisabeth performance....

Lucky Girl!!!

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The best part about the TCA Video pages for the Elisabeth DVD being put up? The pages list the dates during which the performances were recorded.

Elisabeth DVD Recording Date: 06/08/07

Yes, they actually put up the page BEFORE the day when the DVD is going to be recorded. This is the first time I've actually seen it publicly available when the DVD will be filmed. Which means that if you are lucky enough to have tickets for June 8th, you're going to be seeing the show as immortalized on DVD.

As was done upon the Tsukigumi Elisabeth DVD release, Hankyu is yet again weasling more money out of our greedy little shiny-filled pockets....and here I am ready to hand over my entire paycheck and my proverbial first born.


TCAD-183 and TCAD-184 are the special Elisabeth DVD box sets, much like the ones released after tsuki's performance, but dare I say with even more wonderful goodies?

What goodies do we have?

• The 2-disc 2007 yukigumi performance DVD (TCAD-177). The DVD this time around has rehearsal digest, alternate angle footage, plus all of the Elisabeth we've come to know and love
  
• Two Special DVDs - Hanagumi's Tokyo Performance and senshuuraku messages (which I assume are the senshuuraku speeches), and Tsukigumi's Tokyo senshuuraku performance and messages/speeches. These all have most likely been broadcast on Sky Stage, but for those of us who don't have access to Sky Stage versions, it's a godsend.
  
• A smaller-sized version of the performance program.
  
• The most adorable thing ever - Paper Dolls! A special set of paper dolls and diorama backgrounds of the main cast (Der Tod, Elisabeth, Franz Joseph, Lucheni and Rudolf) from all 6 Elisabeth productions. That's 30 paper dolls full ove love and shiny! I fear to think what a certain roommate of mine would do with Komu!Rudolf and Tom!Luigi
  
• Finally, a lovely touch - a deluxe letter set with paper, envelopes, a quill pen, ink and wax seals.
  

(obviously, TCAD 183, the ¥65 000 version, is the one that has all 6 troupe DVDs in it, not just the Yukigumi '07 version)

Yet another DVD to add to the list:


Tsukigumi National Tour DVD - Dal Lake no Koi - 09/05/2007

Osaka Samurai... DVD release.... August 5, 2007.

Come August, I will be so incredibly broke, but it will be SO worth it.

Well the DVD list of DOOM is finished and up to date! <3 (with the exception of all of the region coding)

It should be so much easier to take care of now that it is set up. (of course the current page is getting a bit long and should probably be broken into a new one soon. I've been doing 4 groups of 15 titles per page, but it can probably take a little bit more than that without breaking)

But I came across an interesting little find in putting up the newest titles. It really makes me wonder what Hankyu is up to...

TCAD-171 is Sakura / Secret Hunter
the next DVD with a published item number and page is Twelfth Night TCAD-180

So we skipped 8 item numbers there.....
Assuming that 4 of the missing numbers are Never Sleep, El Viento, Lavender Monologue, and Primary Colors, with a 5th possibly being Elisabeth...Things still don't add up.

What do you have planned Hankyu, that you haven't told us yet? Hmmm....

Bow Hall DVD's perhaps? *hopes madly*

*wants to know what the missing show announcements are*

(I know that multiple people have posted this on their LJs already... sorry!)

Thank you, Hankyu, for releasing old shows on DVD <3 <3 <3 <3

*Has really wanted to see Cinderella Rock and Juuniya*

(both are being released on July 20th. The Tani boxset, for 10500 yen, will include both *_* This on top of all of the other awesome releases coming up.... Must save pennies...so freaking broke....)

It's almost enough for me to forget about how it looks like it's going to storm out and the windows are almost all wide open at home -_- I looked before I left and the weather didn't say it was going to rain!

Maggie....Musumeyaku...EVERYONE must be given fedoras more often.

Music - So much wonderful jazz! And in such quantities. However, they managed to put in such an amazingly eclectic mix of music aside from the jazz, and yet somehow make it all mesh together. I've seen some revues where they put eclectic mixes together and you'd never realize they were the same revue. Not in this case...

I wish that the Queen and Led Zeppelin songs had been left in the Sherezade scene, but strangely I somehow actually liked the instrumental filler music they overlayed instead... It was also nice that they kept the scenes actually in the DVD performance order, unlike Les Bijoux, where you had to access them through the scene menu.

Dancing - The choreography *_* the wonderful ensemble numbers. Dancing without music guidance at times. The Petrushka scene, which I can't even imagine how absolutely amazing that had to look in person.

And finally, I don't think I've EVER been so excited over a Finale parade as I was for this one. I'll give you 3 guesses as to why, but if you have to use them, you obviously mustn't know me well enough ^_~