Jack the Ripper meets Broadway: the villain origin story you didn't know you needed.
Whitechapel, the slums of the East End in London, are being terrorized by a brutal serial killer called Jack the Ripper. While William James Moriarty receives a letter of request from his old teacher Jack Renfield, the Scotland Yard inspector Lestrade also seeks out Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson for help in this matter.
Production
Stage design transforms Whitechapel's horror into grotesque beauty.
Acting
Shôgo Suzuki's Moriarty: terrifying charisma in every note.
Director
Hideyuki Nishimori
Shôgo Suzuki
William James Moriarty
Ryō Hirano
Sherlock Holmes
Ikkei Yamamoto
Louis James Moriarty
Hidetoshi Kubota
Albert James Moriarty
Yuki Izawa
Sebastian Moran
Ryotaro Akazawa
Fred Porlock
Cecile Daigo
James Bonde
Teruma
Zack Paterson
Kenta Kamakari
John H. Watson
Shun Takagi
George Lestrade
Ray Fujita
Charles Augustus Milverton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This adapts the manga's 'The Phantom of Whitechapel' arc, which itself reimagines the unsolved Ripper murders as class revolution—peak Japanese media obsession with British villainy.
The musical's Moriarty operates as a dark mirror to Les Misérables' Javert—both obsessed with justice, but one built the system and the other burns it down.
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