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Chanter La Revue
Last Saturday night we spent a beautiful evening at Shinjuku Theatre Molière watching troupe Mirai Gekijō's 14th annual "Chanter La Revue". Held in the small 186-seat smoky venue, the fun and sexy music and dance show features about 15 beautiful girls, led by Mizumori Ado. Ado-chan, made herself famous decades ago with a TV show on which she drew on a transparent acrylic board with both hands while singing.
The 1h45m show featured about 25 songs, from jazz standards to Miami Sound Machine's "Conga" and several versions of "We Will Rock You". For each song there was a different set theme and costumes. Throughout the show, dancers maintained some sort of continuity by regularly shouting a sweet "ya!" at random, and in one particularly funny scene where dancers wore cat outfits, this metamorphosed to "nya-!" (onomatopoeia for a cat's meow).
Ado-chan appeared for about 5 songs which she sung, her vocals ranging from her characteristic high-pitched voice to surprisingly low tones. Despite being over 65 year old, she was very energetic, and of course funny and entertaining.
That was a great evening!
The show goes on until this Sunday December 4, so it may still be possible to catch it.
(Photo from Mirai Gekijō's Web site.)
Posted on December 3, 2005 at 01:35 | Tweet
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As a follow-up to my comment on Matsudaken...
It seems that in any other country, Spanish culture (samba, olé!) or French cabaret would be performed by the people who made the art popular in the first place. So do you ever see ethnic stuff in Japan that hasn't been 'Japaneesized'?
Marie-Lynn
Posted by Marie-Lynn Richard on December 3, 2005 at 01:42
There's a lot of "genuine" performances in Japan, but you're right, Japanese like to have their own take on pretty much anything.
Posted by Patrick on December 3, 2005 at 02:35