This is the Naruto Musical that everyone was talking about online since months ago. I was thinking "The cast looks really good!". As much as I wanted to book my ticket to attend it but there were many things that stopped me from buying the ticket at that time. So on the day before the last show, I manage to get some free time for the next day and one of my fujoshi friend psyched me to go and even manage to call another fujo friend who doesn't watch Naruto at all to go. So I went "Okay... why not? Just YOLO!". Attended it and no regrets.
Upon getting the tickets, I bought the program book (as shown in pic) that contains info of the characters and show info. It comes with an English translation booklet too! So pretty!~ Love all the photos in it... some are quite BL implied. XD
The show setting is rather simple and not as complicated or extended as those that you can find on a higher budget musical like London's theater show such as Wicked. But it is enough to showcase the actions and emotions of the cast. As it says Musical, well... it isn't really full of scenes with people singing. More like action and talking just like in the anime. There are special effects throughout the set and some are pretty impressive. I particularly like the scene of Sasuke and Itachi doing aerial acrobatics with a red cloth. I like such performances on stage especially when it involves some sort of dance or fluid body movement.
There were also English subs at the side screen although I can somehow understand half of what they were saying. It does feel you are watching the anime coming to live. Many of the characters look just like the anime's characters! Like SERIOUSLY! It's beyond just any cosplay. The cast has to know how to act, perform acrobatics/martial arts and look the part at the same time!
I don't think I should spoil some more. So if it ever comes to your country, do go check it out. Another fellow fujo friend of mine went to 3 out of 4 shows available here. She's just so dedicated in showing her support for this 100% Japanese production, I salute her~
I will leave here a photo I took of Kakashi's actor (Yuki Kimisawa) signing autographs for us and some group of fans after the show ended. He is very handsome in real life! Unfortunately, this is the only decent shot I have of him because his manager/security are a bit strict on photo taking. There are seriously many nice photos in that book! Do you wanna see them? Let me know so that I can take some more pics and show it here.