The official website for the stage musical based on Naoshi Arakawa's manga Your Lie in April (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso) announced on Thursday that the new musical will be held in August and September 2025 in Japan. The performance will take place at Showa Women's University's Hitomi Memorial Hall, before moving to Aichi and Osaka in September and Toyama in October.
Image via Your X/Twitter account in April
The cast includes (top row, left to right):
Kurumu Okamiya, Misato Higashijima as Kōsei Arima Ririka Katō, Karin Miyamoto as Kaori Miyazono
(second row, left to right):
Other cast members include:
Frank Wildhorn, an American composer best known for songs sung by Whitney Houston (“Where Do Broken Hearts Go?”), scored the musical. Wildhorn previously scored Death Note the Musical and is a Broadway veteran of hit musicals such as Jekyll & Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Tracy Miller Schell and Carly Robyn Green co-wrote the lyrics with Wildhorn. Composer Jason Howland (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Jekyll & Hyde) is responsible for the musical's orchestration and staging. Riko Sakaguchi (The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Mary and The Witch's Flower) wrote the musical's original Japanese book, which was adapted into English by Rinne Goff. Ikko Ueda translated and directed the show.
The London run ended on Sunday, August 11, not September 21 as previously announced.
A stage version of the musical previously ran in Tokyo from May 7–29, 2022.
The manga debuted in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine in 2011 and ended in February 2015. The series won the Best Shōnen Manga category in the 37th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards in 2013. Kodansha Comics released the manga in North America, releasing the 11th and final volume in December 2018.
A television anime series based on Arakawa's manga premiered in 2014, animated by A-1 Pictures. The manga also received a live-action film, which premiered in Japan in September 2016. A non-musical stage play previously premiered in 2017.
Source: Your Lie in April stage musical website, Natalie comedy
