A gender-bent Moulin Rouge where women play men and kabuki legends call the shots.
A Farce in Pigalle is a musical taking place in the year 1900 in the city of Paris, France. Where a young man comes to visit the Moulin Rouge. This man calls himself “Jacques Valette,” and begs to be allowed to work at this dreamlike place. With his arrival, the whole world of the Moulin Rouge is about to be turned on its head! The musical is followed by a Japan Traditional Revue titled "Welcome to Takarazuka." The theme for this revue show comes from the beauty of the four seasons in which the spirituality of the Japanese people is based on. Kabuki legend Bando Tamasaburo is a supervising director of this show, which marks his first collaboration with the Takarazuka Revue.
Production
Two completely different shows for the price of one—unhinged value.
Direction
Bando Tamasaburo's kabuki fingerprints all over the Japanese half.
Costume
1900 Paris drag meets Takarazuka sparkle—no notes, perfection.
Director
Shinji Ueda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Takarazuka's all-female troupe inverting gender on a Parisian stage is gloriously meta—women playing men playing women in a historically male cabaret.
Bando Tamasaburo, the supervising director, is a Living National Treasure who revolutionized onnagata (female-role) performance in kabuki—his first Takarazuka collaboration was decades in the making.
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