Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen Broadway Musical Reveals Staff, Private Presentation for February 20-21
Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) is writing the music and lyrics. Leah Nanako Winkler is writing the script. Or Matias is handling the music direction, conducting, and vocal and incidental music arrangement. Antonio Marion is the executive producer Producers Kenny Kurokawa and Takeshi Tanaka are producers. Nobu Matsukura, Shin Yamada, Yu Anne Ando, Ryohei Otani, and Yumi are associate producers.The musical is also planned for a "worldwide release." Tony Award-winning stage director and choreographer Rob Ashford (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Curtains, Frozen) is directing and choreographing the musical.The original 2020 announcement credited Devin Keudell of Bespoke Theatricals as general manager and Izumi Takeuchi as producer.Cork publishes the manga in English, and it describes the manga:Anno launched the manga in the magazine in 2013 in Shodensha's Feel Young magazine, and ended in March 2018. Shodensha released two volumes for the manga. Crunchyroll has also released the first 16 chapters of the series in English. The Japanese government's Ministry of Cultural Affairs honored the manga in the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2020.Viz Media published Anno's Flowers and Bees manga in North America, Del Rey published her Sugar Sugar Rune manga, and Vertical published her Sakuran manga. Anno also designed characters for her husband Hideaki Anno's Cutie Honey live-action film adaptation, which Bandai Entertainment released on DVD.Source: Deadline (Greg Evans)
