Введение
Семейство японских музыкальных театральных постановок, основанных на манге "Сейлор Мун"
Family of Japanese musical theatre shows based on the Sailor Moon manga
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
Японские мюзиклы "Сейлор Мун" (セーラームーン・ミュージカル, Sērāmūn Myūjikaru), часто называемые "Сера Мю" (セラミュー), – это серия живых театральных постановок, основанных на манге "Сейлор Мун" Наоко Такеучи. Серия состоит из 31 мюзикла, которые насчитывают более 800 представлений с момента открытия шоу летом 1993 года. Первый набор мюзиклов, шедший с 1993 по 2005 год, был поставлен компанией Bandai и включал более 500 представлений. Текущие мюзиклы производятся Nelke Planning (дочерней компанией Dwango) с 2013 года.
Family of Japanese musical theatre shows based on the Sailor Moon manga
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
История
Family of Japanese musical theatre shows based on the Sailor Moon manga
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
Каждый мюзикл обычно проходит три раза в год, приуроченные к школьным каникулам зимой, весной и летом. Исторически мюзиклы ставились в театре "Саншайн" в Икебукуро, Токио зимой и весной, а летом гастролировали по Японии. После постановки "Новой легенды об острове Кагуя" (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) в январе 2005 года актрисы, игравшие Луну, Меркурий и Юпитер, "закончили" (покинули шоу), и серия приостановилась. В июне 2013 года редактор Такеучи, Фумио Осано, объявил о премьере нового мюзикла "Сейлор Мун" – "La Reconquista" – в сентябре 2013 года, при этом Такеучи лично проводила прослушивание актрис. В составе труппы были Сатоми Окубо в роли Сейлор Мун, Мияби Мацуура в роли Сейлор Меркурий, Канон Нанаки в роли Сейлор Марс, Ю Такахаси в роли Сейлор Юпитер, Сиори Саката в роли Сейлор Венеры и Юга Ямато в роли Такседо Маска, что сделало "La Reconquista" первым мюзиклом "Сейлор Мун", где все роли исполняли женщины. Мюзикл рассказывает о битвах между Воинами Сейлор и Тёмным Королевством в поисках Серебряного Кристалла. Продюсером, режиссёром и автором мюзикла выступил Такуя Хирамицу, который руководил "Сера Мю" с 1995 по 1998 год, а музыку написал Тосихико Сахаси. Мюзикл проходил с 13 по 23 сентября в театре AiiA в Сибуя, Токио. "Petite Étrangère", мюзикл, основанный на "Сейлор Мун R", шел в театре AiiA в Токио с 21 по 31 августа 2014 года и в Осаке с 5 по 7 сентября. Версия "Petite Étrangère" была поставлена в Шанхае, Китай, в январе 2015 года в театре Академии театра Шанхая на протяжении пяти спектаклей, что сделало "Petite Étrangère" первой официальной японской постановкой мюзикла "Сейлор Мун" за пределами Японии. Серия дебютировала в Северной Америке в 2019 году со спектаклем "Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live", который был показан ограниченным тиражом 29 и 30 марта в театре PlayStation в Нью-Йорке. Мюзикл также был показан в театре Уорнер в Вашингтоне, округ Колумбия, 24 марта.
Family of Japanese musical theatre shows based on the Sailor Moon manga
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
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The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
Мюзиклы обычно включают в себя тематическую песню, которая исполняется после победы Воинов Сейлор над антагонистом; комические сцены (например, переодевание и каламбуры); и песни, созданные для персонажей или групп персонажей, такие как романтические песни между Усаги Цукино и Мамору Чиба, боевые песни для Воинов Сейлор, песни, которые Воины Сейлор исполняют в качестве обычных людей, и песни злодеев. "Пересмотренные версии" (известные как Kaiteiban) – еще один важный аспект мюзиклов "Сейлор Мун". Обычно новые мюзиклы, ставящиеся летом, пересматриваются зимой. Основной сюжет остается прежним, но некоторые элементы сюжета перестраиваются: злодеи, которые были лишь частично побеждены в оригинальной версии шоу, полностью побеждены или исцелены, а актрисам, которые "заканчивают" свою карьеру, дается больше сольных партий или реплик. Часто мюзиклы расширяют сюжетные концепции, представленные в аниме и манге. Наиболее примечательно, роман между четырьмя Воинами Сейлор и Четырьмя Королями Небес в их прошлых жизнях был адаптирован из изображения в манге, на котором обе группы изображены как романтические пары. Помимо адаптации материала из аниме и манги версий "Сейлор Мун", музыкальный сериал также имеет две оригинальные сюжетные линии: "Легенда об острове Кагуя" (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) и серия "Последний Дракул". Большинство шоу заканчиваются продолжительным занавесом и бисом, во время которого исполняется ряд песен. Популярные песни из аниме-сериала, такие как "Moonlight Densetsu" и "La Soldier", которые не имеют смысла в сюжете мюзикла, часто исполняются в качестве фан-сервиса. Специальные шоу для поклонников, называемые FanKan (от "спасибо поклонникам"), используются в качестве финалов сезона, где исполняются несколько номеров для поклонников и представляются новые актрисы. В мюзиклах появились новые персонажи, часто в качестве новых членов существующих групп злодеев, такие как Пятнистый Тилмун, Аарон и Манна из Клана Чёрной Луны, Маннетчи Смерти и Кошмары Смерти из "Death Busters", и Сейлоры Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta и Buttress из Shadow Galactica. Мюзиклы также создали оригинальных персонажей, которые никогда не появлялись ни в одной другой версии сериала, таких как Сейлор Astarte, Вулкан, Граф Дракул, Кровавый Дракул Вампир, Нежить Берсерк и Смерть Ламия, среди прочих.
Family of Japanese musical theatre shows based on the Sailor Moon manga
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
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Family of Japanese musical theatre shows based on the Sailor Moon manga
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
Декорации и задники варьируются от простых (только несколько декораций, без задника или с задником с незамысловатыми рисунками) до умеренно сложных (большее количество небольших декораций и некоторые крупные, например, стена, покрашенная по всей ширине сцены, с несколькими прикрепленными лестницами и большими дверями), более детализированных декораций с активным использованием разных уровней сцены, люков и потайных дверей. Атаки Воинов Сейлор изображаются цветными огнями, попадающими в цель, а иногда используются небольшие взрывы и другая пиротехника (например, "бумажное пламя", специальные бумажные полоски, которые актеры поджигают в руках, а затем бросают, чтобы создать иллюзию "огненного шара"). Воины Сейлор в основном трансформируются за кулисами (или просто появляются уже трансформированными), в то время как их фразы трансформации можно услышать. Только Усаги трансформируется на сцене. Это делается с помощью дублера и "затемнения" части сцены или перемещения декораций перед ней во время смены актеров. Единственная реальная "последовательность трансформации", которая когда-либо происходит, – это предварительно снятый видеоролик, проецируемый на ширму, показывающий, как актеры "превращаются" (с использованием розовых лент) в свои трансформированные версии.
Family of Japanese musical theatre shows based on the Sailor Moon manga
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
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Family of Japanese musical theatre shows based on the Sailor Moon manga
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
"Stage" – термин, широко используемый для обозначения группировок мюзиклов. Bandai, продюсер первых 12 лет мюзиклов "Сейлор Мун", разделила свои постановки на три этапа. Первый этап состоял из тех, в которых Сейлор Мун изображала Анза Ояма, первая и самая продолжительная актриса, игравшая Сейлор Мун. Этот этап проходил параллельно с мангой и аниме, что отражалось в сюжете, и сопровождался почти полной сменой основного актерского состава. Второй этап включал трех разных актрис, игравших Сейлор Мун, единственный полностью оригинальный мюзикл ("Легенда об острове Кагуя") и полуоригинальную серию "Последний Дракул", завершившийся ремейком оригинального мюзикла "Final First Stage" – "Eien Densetsu" (под названием "Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin"). Третий этап сохранил Марину Куроки в качестве ведущей актрисы, но состоял всего из двух мюзиклов (оба ремейка "Легенды об острове Кагуя") и завершился в январе 2005 года. Серия возобновилась после перерыва с 20-летней постановкой в 2013 году с Сатоми Окубо в роли новой Сейлор Мун. В отличие от предыдущих постановок, эти мюзиклы, находящиеся под надзором Nelke Planning, не были разделены на отдельные официальные этапы.
Family of Japanese musical theatre shows based on the Sailor Moon manga
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
Напротив, большинство западных поклонников разделяют этапы по актрисам, игравшим Сейлор Мун: Анза Ояма, Фумина Хара, Миюки Канбе и Марина Куроки. Список ниже разделен в соответствии с официальными этапами, используемыми продюсерами Sera Myu.
Family of Japanese musical theatre shows based on the Sailor Moon manga
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
Постановки Bandai (1993–2005)
Family of Japanese musical theatre shows based on the Sailor Moon manga
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
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1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sail...
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The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
The nihongo|Sailor Moon musicals|セーラームーン・ミュージカル|Sērāmūn Myūjikaru, commonly referred to as Sera Myu (セラミュー), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The first set of musicals, which ran from 1993 to 2005, were produced by Bandai with over 500 performances. The current musicals have been produced by Nelke Planning (a subsidiary of Dwango) since 2013. History
Each musical typically runs for three engagements per year, timed to align with school holidays in the winter, spring, and summer. Musicals were historically staged at the Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo in the winter and spring, and tour Japan in the summer. After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版>) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" (left the show), and the series went on hiatus. In June 2013, Takeuchi's editor Fumio Osano announced that a new Sailor Moon musical, La Reconquista, would open in September 2013, with Takeuchi personally auditioning actresses for the cast. The cast featured Satomi Ōkubo as Sailor Moon, Miyabi Matsuura as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yū Takahashi as Sailor Jupiter, Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus, and Yūga Yamato as Tuxedo Mask, making La Reconquista the first Sailor Moon musical where all roles were played by women. The musical recounts the battles between the Sailor Soldiers and the Dark Kingdom over the search for the Silver Crystal. The musical was produced, directed and written by Takuya Hiramitsu, who directed SeraMyu from 1995 to 1998, with music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The musical ran from September 13 to 23 at the AiiA Theater Tokyo in Shibuya, Tokyo. Petite Étrangère, a musical based on Sailor Moon R, ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from August 21 to August 31, 2014, and at Osaka from September 5 to September 7. A version of Petite Étrangère was staged in Shanghai, China, in January 2015 at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Theatre for a run of five performances, making Petite Étrangère the first official Japanese production of a Sailor Moon musical to open outside Japan. The series made its North America debut in 2019 with Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon The Super Live, which was staged as a limited engagement on March 29 and 30 at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. The musical also played at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on March 24. Recurring elements
The musicals typically feature a theme song, usually performed after the Sailor Soldiers defeat the antagonist; sight gags (such as cross dressing and puns); and songs tailored for characters or groupings of characters, such as romantic songs between Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, attack songs for the Sailor Soldiers, songs the Sailor Soldiers perform as civilians, and villain songs. "Revised Versions" (known as Kaiteiban) are another major aspect of Sailor Moon musicals. Generally, new musicals are staged in the summer are revised for the winter. The overarching plot remains the same, but certain plot elements are rearranged: villains who were only partially defeated in the original version of the show are fully defeated or healed, and actresses who are "graduating" are given more solo parts or speaking lines. Often, the musicals expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga. Most notably, a romance between the four Sailor Soldiers and the Four Kings of Heaven in their former lives was adapted from a manga image picturing the two groups paired off as romantic couples. In addition to adapting material from anime and manga versions of Sailor Moon, the musical series also has two original plot lines: The Legend of Kaguya Island (Kaguya Shima Densetsu) and the Last Dracul series. Most shows end with an extended curtain call and encore, during which a number of songs are performed. Popular songs from the anime series such as "Moonlight Densetsu" and "La Soldier", which would not make narrative sense in the plot of the musical, are frequently performed as fan service. Special fan appreciation shows referred to as FanKan (deriving from "fan thank you") are used as season finales, where multiple fan service numbers are performed and new actresses are introduced. The musicals have introduced new characters to the series, often as new members of existing groups of villains, such as Spotted Tilmun, Aaron and Manna from the Black Moon Clan, the Death Mannetjes and the Death Nightmares from the Death Busters, and Sailors Pewter Fox, Titanium Kerokko, Theta, and Buttress from Shadow Galactica. The musicals have also created original characters that have never appeared in any other version of the series, such as Sailor Astarte, Vulcan, Count Dracul, Bloody Dracul Vampir, Undead Berserk, and Death Lamia, among others. Production
The sets and backdrops range from simple (only some set pieces, no backdrop or backdrop with uncomplicated paintings) to mid elaborate (a greater number of small set pieces, and some bigger ones, for example, a painted wall over the whole width of the stage with a few attached stairs and a big door), more detailed set pieces, with heavy use of different stage levels, trapdoors and hidden doors. The Sailor Soldiers' attacks are represented by colored lights hitting their targets, and sometimes minor explosions and other small pyrotechnics (for example "flame paper", special paper stripes which the actors ignite in their hands and then throw to create the illusion of a "fireball") are used. The Sailor Soldiers mostly transform off stage (or just appear already transformed), while their transformation phrases can be heard. Only Usagi transforms on stage. This is done with the help of a body double and the "black out" of part of the stage or set pieces moving in front of her while the actors switch places. The only real "transformation sequence" that ever occurs is a pre filmed video sequence projected onto a scrim showing the actors "morph" (with some pink ribbons) into their transformed versions. List of musicals
"Stage" is a term used widely to refer to groupings of the musicals. Bandai, the producers of the first 12 years of Sailor Moon musical productions, divided their musical productions into three stages. The first stage consisted of those in which Sailor Moon was portrayed by Anza Ohyama, the first and longest running Sailor Moon actress. This stage ran parallel to the manga and anime, as reflected by the plot, and had a nearly full graduation with all of the main actresses being replaced. The second stage included three different Sailor Moon actresses, the only fully original musical (The Legend of Kaguya Island) and the semi original Last Dracul series, ending with a remake of the original "Final First Stage" musical, Eien Densetsu (titled Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin.) The third stage retained Marina Kuroki as lead actress, but ran for only two musicals (both remakes of The Legend of Kaguya Island), and ended in January 2005. The series resumed after a hiatus with the 20th Anniversary Stage in 2013, featuring Satomi Ōkubo as the new Sailor Moon. Unlike previous productions, these musicals, now overseen by Nelke Planning, were not categorized into distinct official stages
Conversely, most Western fans break the stages down by the actresses who played Sailor Moon:
Anza Ohyama, Fumina Hara, Miyuki Kanbe, and Marina Kuroki. The list below is divided up according to the official stages used by Sera Myu producers. Bandai productions (1993 2005)
First Stage
Featuring Anza Ohyama as Sailor Moon:
1993 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇)
1994 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (Kaiteiban) (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇（改訂版）)
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (スーパースプリングフェスティバル 美少女戦士セーラームーン )
1994 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Usagi Ai no Senshi e no Michi (うさぎ・愛の戦士への道)
1995 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (変身・スーパー戦士への道)
1995 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon S
Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (Kaiteiban) (変身・スーパー戦士への道（改訂版）)
1995 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni (夢戦士・愛・永遠に )
1996 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS (Kaiteiban)
Yume Senshi Ai Eien ni Saturn Fukkatsu Hen! (夢戦士・愛・永遠に サターン復活篇!) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Special Musical Show
1996 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
1997 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Kaiteiban)
1997 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (永遠伝説)
1998 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Eien Densetsu (Kaiteiban) The Final First Stage!! (永遠伝説［改訂版］) The Final First Stage!! Second stage
Featuring Fumina Hara as Sailor Moon:
1998 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Densetsu Kourin (新・伝説光臨)
1999 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (かぐや島伝説)
1999 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Natsuyasumi! Houseki Tankentai (かぐや島伝説＜改訂版＞夏休み!宝石探検隊)
Featuring Miyuki Kanbe as Sailor Moon:
2000 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin / Henshin Super Senshi e no Michi (新／変身・スーパー戦士への道)
Last Dracul Jokyoku (ラストドラクル序曲)
2000 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (決戦/トランシルバニアの森)
~Shin Toujou! ChibiMoon wo Goru Senshi Tatsu~ (～新登場！ちびムーンを護る戦士達～)
2001 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kessen / Transylvania no Mori (Kaiteiban) (決戦／トランシルバニアの森＜改訂版＞)
Saikyou no Kataki Dark Cain no Nazo (－最強の敵 ダーク・カインの謎－)
2001 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Last Dracul Saishuu Shou (ラスト・ドラクル最終章)
Chou Wakusei Death Vulcan no Fuuin / Super Revue Musical Show (超惑星デス・バルカンの封印 / スパーレビューミュージカルショー)
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2001 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady (～誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ～)
2002 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady [Kaiteiban] Wakusei Nemesis no Nazo (誕生！暗黒のプリンセス ブラック・レディ［改訂版］～惑星ネメシスの謎～)
2002 Spring Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon "10th Anniversary Festival"
Musical Show "Ai no Sanctuary" (ミュージカルショー「愛のサンクチュアリー」)
Memorial Talk & Live Show (メモリアルトーク＆ライブショー)
2002 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～)
2003 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Mugen Gakuen Mistress Labyrinth Kaiteiban (無限学園～ミストレス・ラビリンス～改訂版)
2003 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Starlights Ryuusei Densetsu (スターライツ・流星伝説)
2004 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Kakyuu Ouhi Kourin The Second Stage Final (火球王妃降臨) THE SECOND STAGE FINAL
Third stage
Featuring Marina Kuroki as Sailor Moon:
2004 Summer Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
~Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu~ (～新かぐや島伝説～) NEW LEGEND OF KAGUYA ISLAND
2005 Winter Special Musical Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban) Marinamoon Final (新かぐや島伝説（改訂版) MARINAMOON FINAL
Nelke Planning productions (2013 Present)
'Note: From this point onwards, the musicals, now produced by Nelke Planning, do not have numbered "stages".' 20th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon:
2013 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
La Reconquista
2014 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Petite Étrangère
2015 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Un Nouveau Voyage
Featuring Hotaru Nomoto as Sailor Moon:
2016 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Amour Eternal
2017 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Le Mouvement Final
Nogizaka46 Musicals
Featuring Mizuki Yamashita and Sayuri Inoue as Sailor Moon:
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」)
Featuring Shiori Kubo''' as Sailor Moon:
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonNogizaka46 ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2019 (乃木坂46版 ミュージカル 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2019')
Featuring Kazu Inoue and Sawara Satsuki as Sailor Moon:
2024 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Nogizaka 46 "5 kisei" ban Musical "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" 2024 (乃木坂46"5期生"版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」2024)
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya, Natsuki Koga and Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2018 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live
Featuring Kanae Yumemiya as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Paris)
Featuring Tomomi Kasai as Sailor Moon
2019 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team America)
Featuring Natsuki Koga as Sailor Moon
2023 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
The Super Live (Team Taipei)
30th Anniversary Musicals
Featuring Riko Tanaka''' as Sailor Moon:
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor MoonKaguya hime no Koibito (かぐや姫の恋人)
2022 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 30 Shūnen Kinen Musical Festival Chronicle (30周年記念 Musical Festival Chronicle '')
Прием
В общей сложности 32 055 человек посетили Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇), состоящий из 29 отдельных представлений. Пересмотренное издание, включавшее 35 отдельных представлений, посетило 25 208 человек.
In total, 32,055 people attended Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen (外伝 ダーク・キングダム復活篇), which had 29 separate performances. 25,208 people attended its revised edition, which had 35 separate performances.