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Sayonara Sorcier Stage Musical's 2nd Run Reveals Additional Cast
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The staff of the the stage musical adaptation of Hozumi's Sayonara Sorcier manga revealed additional cast on Monday for the musical's second run. While the characters appeared in the first run, the cast members are new.
Marvelous streamed a commercial for the stage play earlier this month showing the main characters Theodorus and Vincent van Gogh in costume. (The commercial is region-locked to Japan.)
The play will run at Tokyo's Theatre 1010 from March 17 to 20.
Daisuke Nishida will again direct the play and pen the script, and Shuhei Kamimura (Student Council's Discretion) will again compose the music. The cast members returning from the first run include:
- Shinji Rachi as Theodorus van Gogh (left in picture above)
- Ryō Hirano as Vincent van Gogh (right in picture above)
- Kimeru as Paul Gauguin
- Akira Kubodera as Monsieur Baudrillard
- Masashi Gōda as Jean Santro
- Yōhei Izumi as Jean Gérôme
The musical held its first run at the Zepp Blue Theater in Roppongi, Tokyo last March. The staff released the musical on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in Japan in August.
The original manga tells the story of the van Gogh brothers — the famous painter Vincent van Gogh, and his younger brother Theodorus van Gogh — but primarily from the point of view of the latter. Theo is employed as the branch manager of the famous art dealership Goupil & Cie. He seeks to embrace new talents and techniques, but the bourgeoisie mentality of the time deems the lower classes unable to appreciate fine art, marking it as a domain exclusive to high society. Theo struggles to showcase art that depicts the truth of the everyday.
Hozumi launched the manga in the October 2012 issue of Shogakukan's Monthly Flowers magazine, and ended it in the magazine's October 2013 issue. Shogakukan published the manga's second and final compiled book volume in November 2013. The manga topped the Female Readers list of manga in the 2014 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook.
Source: Comic Natalie
