The stage play will run from July 26 to August 2 in Tokyo
A website opened on Sunday to announce a stage play adaptation of Eku Takeshima's manga Whisper Me a Love Song (Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau), titled Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau (Whisper) Me a Love Song the Stage), will run from July 26 to August 2 at Theater1010 in Tokyo. The website also revealed the play's cast, staging, and key visuals.
Image via Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau website
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The play stars:
Yui Watanabe as Himari Kino Image via Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau website
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Momoka Ishii as Yori Asanagi Image via Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau website
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Yūki Tenma as Miki Mizuguchi Image via Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau website
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Nagisa Hayakawa as Mari Tsutsui Image via Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau website
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Nanase Kayama as Kaori Tachibana Image via Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau website
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Chiyuri Itō as Shiho Izumi Image via Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau website
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Shiori Nishikado as Momoka Satomiya Image via Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau website
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Kaede Sakuragi as Hajime Amasawa Image via Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau website
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The cast will sing and play live instruments for the play's live performance scenes.
Tomoyuki Ueno is directing the play, Yuniko Ayana (anime BanG Dream!, Given, The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls) is writing the script and Takuya Kusunose is the musical director.
Publisher Kodansha USA is releasing the original manga digitally and in print in English, and describes the first compiled book volume:
Himari, a passionate and bubbly first-year high school student, falls in love with her senpai Yori after hearing her band perform on the first day of school. Himari tells Yori that she only loves her, and to Himari's surprise, Yori says that she loves Himari too! But when Himari realizes that she and her senpai have two different kinds of love, she begins to ask herself what “love” really means…
Takeshima launched the manga in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime magazine in 2019. Ichijinsha published the manga's ninth compiled book volume on March 18.
The manga's anime adaptation premiered on April 13 on TV Asahi's NUMAnimation programming block after a delay. HIDIVE will stream the film as it airs.
Source: Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau website, Comic Natalie