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Black Butler's Jack the Ripper Arc Gets Stage Musical
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official website for Musical Yana Toboso's supernatural manga Black Butler, launched on Saturday. The musical will adapt the manga's Jack the Ripper arc and run in Tokyo's Roppongi Blue Theater from September 5 to September 23. The musical will then run in Osaka's Umeda Arts Theater in the Theater Drama City hall from October 2 to October 5.
The 24-year-old singer Saki Matsuda's role as Mey-Rin.
Returning cast include:
Takeuya Uehara as Grell Sutcliff
Yoshihide Sasaki as Viscount Druitt
Teruma as William T. Spears
Noboru Washio as Baldroy
Takuya Kawaharada as Finnian
Takeshi Terayama as Sharp Hanks
Shūhei Izumi as Undertaker
Hunter X Hunter's Pakunoda).
Tickets for the Tokyo performances will cost 8,500 yen ($83) and go on sale on July 29. Tickets for the Osaka performances will cost 8,800 yen (US$86) and go on sale on August 3.
Sono Shitsuji, Yūkō (That Butler, Friendship), the first Black Butler musical, ran in Tokyo in 2009. The second musical, Musical Kuroshitsuji- The Most Beautiful DEATH in The World- Sen no Tamashii to Ochita Shinigami (Musical Black Butler: The Most Beautiful Death in The World – A Thousand Souls and The Fallen Grim Reaper) debuted in 2010 and had a second run in Tokyo in May 2013 and in Osaka in June 2013.
The original manga revolves around a noble English boy named Ciel Phantomhive and Sebastian Michaels, Ciel's butler who is more than he seems. The manga already premiere on July 10.
Source: Comic Natalie
Image © 2014 Yana Toboso/Musical Kuroshitsuji Project
