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Live Spectacle Naruto Stage Musical's Video Shows Lead Actor's English Message
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official YouTube channel for the Live Spectacle Naruto stage musicals began streaming a video on Monday that features a message from lead actor Kōdai Matsuoka in English. The video promotes the musical's Singapore performance in June.
The YouTube channel began streaming a promotional video in April that shows the cast in costume.
The musical's Singapore performance will take place at the Marina Bay Sands MasterCard Theatres on June 10 and 11.
The new musical, titled Naruto: Song of the Akatsuki (Naruto: Akatsuki no Shirabe), will feature a different story than the previous two productions, and it will run at the AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo from May 19 to June 4. The play will then run at Osaka's Mielparque Hall on June 16-22, and then again at the AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo from July 29-August 6.
The cast includes:
Kōdai Matsuoka as Naruto Uzumaki
Ryūji Satō as Sasuke Uchiha
Keishi Hagio as Suigetsu Hōzuki
Kanon Nanaki as Karin
Tomoya Yamaguchi as Jūgo
Takeshi Hayashino as Kisame Hoshigaki
Ryō Tsuji as Deidara
Hironori Katayama as Tobi
Yui Itō as Sakura Haruno 
Yūki Kimisawa as Kakashi Hatake
Hiro Yūmi as Orochimaru 
Ryōsuke Okada as Kabuto Yakushi (replacing Tatsunari Kimura)
Rei Fujita as Yamato
Ryō Kitamura as Sai 
Seshiru Daigo as Tsunade 
Other confirmed cast members include Seiya Shirasaki, Shōgo Komagawa, Ren Miyagawa, Riku Noma, Atsumi Matsubayashi, and Saya Chinen. Akiko Kodama (Fairy Tail stage play) is returning from the previous two musicals to direct and write the play. Shunsuke Wada is composing the music.
The first musical held performances from March to May 2015 in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka, and Miyagi. The musical then held international performances in Macau, Malaysia, and Singapore. The second run of the musical ran in Osaka and Tokyo from July-August 2016.
The first two musicals covered the manga's story from the first to 27th volume. The production included drama, songs, dance, and acrobatics.
