Yoka Wao

Takarazuka Revue's special performance including all troupes.

In this special VHS released by the Takarazuka Revue, four stars of the four troupes at the time (Flower, Moon, Snow, Star) perform songs from popular musicals, accompanied by interviews and studio recording footage.

Takarazuka Cosmos Troupe 2000 production of Utakata no Koi (Translated as Ephemeral Love, also known as Mayerling). Based on the true story of the the doomed love affair between the crown prince of Austria Rudolf and his young mistress, Marie Vetsera.

The story of a young man who was abandoned as a child and subsequently raised by gypsies. He returns to the city of his birth to seek his fortune, only to become involved in the affairs of an ailing pimp with money problems. The only way to save Duchain from being killed by gangsters is to swindle his young friend Helena into attending a shady party for them. Alphonso tries to stick to his principles, but when everything goes wrong will he run away or face the consequences of his actions?

Early in the nineteenth century in Paris, an evening party is held at Martin's residence on rue de la Chaussee d'Antin. Galantine, the residence's owner and widow of Duke Martin, holds a salon which is a social gathering of important people such as famous nobles, artists, and industrialists. At the party, a baron's second son Albert reunites with a count's daughter Vivianne whom he has known since childhood. After the loss of her father and elder brother who had stood against the present government, she was exiled to England along with her mother. However, following the advice of her aunt Galantine, she returned to Paris several years later when the government's vengeance against the opposition had subsided. Vivian and Albert are very delighted at their meeting again after a long interval and enthusiastically talk as if they were filling in the long blank of several years.

Takarazuka Revue's Phantom based on the play by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit.

Snow troupe's performance.

Dracula, the Musical is a musical based on the original 1897 Victorian novel by Bram Stoker. The score is by Frank Wildhorn, with lyrics and book by Don Black and Christopher Hampton. The Japanese premiere took place in August 2011 in Tokyo. Dracula was played by female performer Yoka Wao, the first woman to play the role of the Count on stage.