Basketball Manga DEAR BOYS’ Cancelled Stage Play Adaptation Newly Set for June 2023
Nelke Planning has announced that the cancelled stage play adaptation of Hiroki Yagami’s long-running basketball-themed manga DEAR BOYS is newly set to be performed at Mixalive TOKYO Theater Mixa from June 1 to 18, 2023. It was originally planned to be held in April 2020 but was cancelled due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
The title of the play is “Aggressive Dance Stage ‘DEAR BOYS’.” and passionate battles between high school boys on the basketball teams are depicted through a fusion of theater and dance performance. Imajin Ito (Touken Ranbu stage play choreographer) serves as director on a script by Masafumi Hata (Attack on Titan The Musical). General sales of the 7,800-yen tickest will begion on May 13.
The cast members have been completely changed from the 2020 version. Masatoshi Shin (Kumon Hyodo in A3!) is newly cast as the protagonist Kazuhiko Aikawa, in place of Leo Nagatsuma (7ORDER project) in the original. Shin says, “While carefully depicting the important aspects of the original manga, we will work together with the director, Imajin Ito-san, the co-stars, and all the staff to create something that can only be created by us today. Please look forward to the best stage of basketball and dance!”
“Aggressive Dance Stage ‘DEAR BOYS'” key visual:
Masatoshi Shin as Kazuhiko Aikawa / Touya Morita as Takumi Fujiwara:
Junpei Mitsui as Ranmaru Miura / Kei Sonan as Junichi Takeuchi:
Yuta Kobayashi as Naoya Tamaki / Tomoyuki Takagi as Kaoru Shimojo:
【情報解禁】
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アグレッシブ ダンス ステージ
『DEAR BOYS』
2023年6月 上演決定❗
━━━━━━━━????原作：八神ひろき（講談社「月刊少年マガジン」連載）
演出：伊藤今人（梅棒／ゲキバカ）
脚本：畑 雅文✅公演情報はこちらhttps://t.co/RDuAsQcwAh#DEARBOYS pic.twitter.com/I1rzADx0VX
— アグレッシブ ダンス ステージ『DEAR BOYS』 (@stage23dearboys) March 5, 2023
RELATED: Hiroki Yagami’s Basketball Manga DEAR BOYS to Get Stage Play in April
2020 version teaser visual:
Source: “Aggressive Dance Stage ‘DEAR BOYS'” official website / Twitter
© Hiroki Yagami, KODANSHA/Aggressive Dance Stage ‘DEAR BOYS Production Committee
