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SIX JAPAN in the West End - Performance Schedule!

From the official SIX Japan Twitter account: https://x.com/sixthemusicalJP/status/1924751972441456830

Sonim (Aragon) and Harumi (Seymour) will be in all eight performances. Kazuki Sora (Parr) will only perform the first 2 nights, then Saito Ruki takes over the remaining 6 shows. Everyone else performs 4 times each.

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ICYMI: SIX Japan will perform in the West End for 8 shows only (Nov 4th to 8th, 2025)

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Farewell to the Six Japanese tour

Short lived but iconic.

Or not. They are getting a West End encore in November!

鈴木 瑛美子 | Emiko Suzuki, ソニン     | Sonim, 田村 芽実 | Meimi Tamura, 皆本 麻帆 | Maho Minamoto, 原田 真絢 | Mahya Harada, 遥海 | Harumi, エリアンナ | Eliana, 菅谷 真理恵 | Marie Sugaya, 鈴木 愛理 | Airi Suzuki, 豊原 江理佳 | Erika Toyohara, 和希 そら | Sora Kazuki, 斎藤 瑠希 | Ruki Saito

(There are a few promotional photos and queen's posts in here but most photos belong to @/wkwk.rnrn on instagram)

The past few months have been hectic and I couldn't find the time to do this until now. Took so long that they announced a week in London a day after I queued this

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SIX JAPAN, LIVE AT THE WEST END!!!!

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[SIX JAPAN] Happy Trails to our Japanese Queens, as they conclude their run in Osaka (last stop) today March 16th!

Left: from 3/17 (final show)

Right: from 3/16

Thank you sooo much to our 12 queens! It's been so much fun following everyone ever since I heard of this production. (Went in because of Airi, came out stanning everyone! Harumi and Meimi especially heehee)

I'll still be posting sporadic stuff whenever I find nice things because this production deserves so much LOVE 🫶 I'm so happy I discovered SIX and SIX Japan!

大千穐楽おめでとうございます！お疲れさまでした!!

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Adding some pretty shots of the 4 other queens from the Osaka run!!

feat. Harada Mahya, Sugaya Marie, Suzuki Airi, Kazuki Sora

Happy opening night in Osaka to these queens!

feat. Suzuki Emiko, Minamoto Maho, Harumi, Eliana, Toyohara Erika, Saito Ruki

Watch their rendition of Ex-Wives and Six on NHK Hayauta in 2024!

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Oh gods is it already the last show tomorrow? Time flies!

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Happy opening night in Osaka to these queens!

feat. Suzuki Emiko, Minamoto Maho, Harumi, Eliana, Toyohara Erika, Saito Ruki

Watch their rendition of Ex-Wives and Six on NHK Hayauta in 2024!

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Source: https://x.com/ck_azg/status/1896227673325846567

Artist comment: SIXとんでもなく情熱的で、素晴らしくて、居ても立っても居られず書いたレポートから、クイーンたち。衣装とクイーンズのかっこよさを布教したい.... #ミュージカルSIX The SIX queens are so incredibly passionate and amazing that I couldn't help but draw them. I want to spread the word about the coolness of the Queens' costumes....

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Source: cecilsqueen on X (Twitter) Art by Kozaki Ai (mangaka author)

To commemorate the opening of Six the Musical (Japanese cast) in Osaka, these limited-edition shishiki boards of the Queens (as depicted in manga Cecil no Joou) will be sold in six bookstores around Umeda Arts Theatre.

SIX the Musical Japan - Special Collab with manga "Cecil's Queen" by Ai Kozaki

Source: Official post by @sixthemusicalJP on X (Twitter)

Translation of above linked tweet:

Special collaboration with #セシルの女王 "Cecil's Queen" (Cecil no Joou) 🎉 Here's a special illustration by manga author #こざき亜衣 Ai Kozaki 👏✨❤

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Synopsis of "Cecil's Queen"

The year is 1533, England. 12-year-old William Cecil enters the palace for the first time accompanied by his father, the Groom of Robes. But there reigned the tyrannical monarch, Henry VIII. Depressed because of the difference between the court he dreamed of and reality, the boy meets Queen Anne Boleyn that night along with her unborn child... He makes a vow to serve the future "King"... "I will make Elizabeth the Queen."

Ch. 1 available on Mangadex, for those interested!

First chapter (linked above) features Anne Boleyn! Really enjoyed it. Scanned through some of the digital JP volumes available on Bookwalker, it does feature all of the six wives in the chapters.

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Some lovely snaps from Nicole Bondzie, associate choreographer for Six the Musical! I love seeing all 12 Japanese queens (in costume!) in one single photo. Such a blessing!

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Also apparently, each cast set (based on Tokyo debut date) was given an informal team nickname lol: House York and House Lancaster 👀 (rotrk readers, iykyk i guess??)

Here are the teams, with their opening night Megasixes linked:

"House York" (31 Jan 2025 - Evening): Sonim, Tamura Meimi, Harada Mahya, Eliana, Suzuki Airi, Saito Ruki

"House Lancaster" (1 Feb 2025 - Matinee): Suzuki Emiko, Minamoto Maho, Harumi, Sugaya Marie, Toyohara Erika, Kazuki Sora

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And just like that... Nagoya ✈️➡️ Osaka 🫶

Source: thisis_harumi / Seymour (Instagram)

feat. Eliana, Suzuki Emiko, Minamoto Maho, Toyohara Erika, Kazuki Sora, Harumi

名古屋の千穐楽おめでとうございます！ 大阪にまた会いましょう！

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DYK: one set of our Japanese beheaded cousins were from the same idol franchise?

Both of the above are from IG stories of Suzuki Airi (Howard) - airisuzuki_official_uf

Suzuki Airi (Howard) is a former member of °C-ute, while Tamura Meimi (Boleyn) is a former member of S/mileage, currently renamed Angerme. Both idol groups are under the franchise Hello! Project, which popular girl group Morning Musume is a part of.

And both of them have come so far since then, with Suzuki being a popular J-pop soloist (you might know her from Kaguya-sama Season 2's viral opening theme Daddy! Daddy! Do), and Tamura a well-known musical actress (apart from starring as Lauren/Kinky Boots JP 2025, she's also voicing Nessarose in the JP dub of the live-action film Wicked). You go, Queens!

((Tagging @arbitrarygreay for interest reasons and double-checking if I got this right ahaha))

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[SIX JAPAN] Happy Opening Night in Nagoya, Aichi! Also Happy Trails to Tamura Meimi-san (Boleyn), whose last performance was today!

First 2 photos - Tamura_Meimi on X (Twitter)

Third photo

Rough translation of Tamura-san's tweet Today, on the first day in Nagoya, was my final performance. I am overwhelmed with emotion right now. As I stood on stage as one of six queens every day, I performed with the fervent hope of inspiring the dreams of young musical artists of the future. Just as people are now able to live true to themselves compared to the past, I believe that the world will be a more beautiful place in the future.

Beginning April 27th, Tamura will star as Lauren in Kinky Boots the Musical.

Thank you, Meimei-chan! お疲れさまでした!!

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Six the musical – Japanese MegaSIX: transcript and translation!!

Photo credits: https://x.com/sometsur/status/1885304606261137766 (cropped, Meimi and Sonim are so cute)

I haven’t seen anyone make one on Tumblr… but I absolutely love it! I watched many videos to get the transcript right haha

Transcript and translation are mine (source: I’m Japanese, but I have no academic experience translating from Japanese). Please credit me / tag me if you use it! Notes at the end.

Japanese

Are you ready? 東京、行くよ！

旦那が 私を追い出すなんて、Baby ありりりりりりりえない

別れられると思うなんて、本当にあり (夫婦関係を取り消すなんてあげない)

りりりりりりり　りえなかったわ！

悪かったわ悪気なくて、楽しけりゃいいじゃん！　ありえない！

頭、頭冷やして傷付けたくはないのー

でも　マジで　でも　嫌なら　私を壊せない

やりたいように　変えるだけ　ブレない　この心　おおー

椅子に、一人、ここ私のお城よ　

やりたい事は　好きにするわ、そう

クイーンは私だよ、跪きなさいよ！

やりたい事、やりたい事、なんて声を合わせて歌おう！

やりたい事、やりたい事、ならば愛して　ああー

愛はもう良い、愛されなくても良いわ、乗り越える時だわ

愛されなくてもー　それだけじゃない！

離婚！

打首！

死亡！

離婚！

打首！

死別！

そう！

SIX！

Romaji

Are you ready? Tokyo, ikuyo!

Danna ga watashiwo oidasunante baby aririririririenai

Wakarerareruto omounante hontouni ari (fuufukankeiwo torikesunante agenai)

Riririririri rienakattawa!

Warukattawa waruginakute tanoshikerya iijan! Arienai!

Atama atama hiyashite kizutsuketakuwa naino

Demo majide demo iyanara watashiwo kowasenai

Yaritaiyouni kaerudake burenai kono kokoro ooh

Isuni, hitori, koko watashino oshiroyo!

Yaritaikotowa sukini suruwa, sou

Queen wa watashidayo, hizamazukinasaiyo!

Yaritaikoto, yaritaikoto, nante koewo agete utaou!

Yaritaikoto, yaritaikoto, naraba aishite aah

Ai wa mou ii, aisarenakutemo iiwa, norikoeru toki dawa

Aisarenakutemo ooh soredakejanai!

Rikon!

Uchikubi!

Shibou!

Rikon!

Uchikubi!

Shibetsu!

Sou!

SIX!

Translation

Are you ready? Tokyo, let’s go!

My husband is driving me away? Baby I can’t believe it!

You think that I would leave you? / You think you are capable of leaving me? I really can’t believe it! (I won’t let you revoke our married relationship)

I couldn’t believe it!

I’m sorry I didn’t feel bad! As long as I’m having fun! I can’t believe it!

Keep a cool head! I don’t want to hurt you / I don’t want to hurt it

But – for real – but – if you don’t want to – you can’t break me

I’ll change it as much as I want, this unwavering heart

Alone, on a chair, this is my castle!

I’ll do what I want, however I want, yes

I am the queen, kneel before me!

What I want to do, what I want to do, is for us to raise our voices and sing!

What I want you to do, what I want you to do is to love me

I don’t need love anymore, I don’t need to be loved, it’s time to overcome it

Even if I’m not loved, that is not it!

Divorced!

Beheaded!

Died!

Divorced!

Beheaded!

Bereaved!

Yes!

SIX!

Notes (very long I know, read what you want, I’m just passionate about linguistics)

Okay, Japanese is a tricky language to translate due to its grammar and syntax, which is very different from English. I did my best to show nuance, but it’s also 3 AM lol. If you have questions or remarks, I’d love to discuss them!

Aragon: heard 2 versions, the one in parentheses is probably a mistake, a different line in the main song (not 100% sure, as there are no recordings that I know of) – but it gives us an insight into No Way! For the second line, I gave 2 possible translations. Japanese is very much a context-based language, and sometimes things can be interpreted in different ways (the agglutinative language and homophones combo is strooong). Here, I like that both Henry’s and Aragon’s points of view are included! Japanese being syllable-based makes it sometimes hard to put a lot of meaning in a short line, but here the ambivalence works great imo.

Boleyn: the Japanese version kept Boleyn’s playfulness, which is so cool. Love how they also used an idiom “Atama hiyashite” – followed by, once again, an ambiguous syntax which gives us 2 very funny interpretations: I don’t want to hurt you (Henry’s feelings), or hurt the head! The repetition is for “head”. The transition is a bit clumsy from Aragon’s part, but tense change is great (Aragon is old news to Boleyn!)

Seymour: I feel like this is the closest meaning-wise to the original English. The emphasis is on heart (kokoro), which is meaningful ofc.

Cleves: okay, “chair” instead of throne is UGLY. But it is a chair. I guess the rhythm won over lyricism here. I like that “get down” was translated into the specific verb “to kneel” (which I learnt translating this). It makes up for the chair lol.

Howard: another case of agglutination galore. Even though the proposition “yaritaikoto” (= what one wants to do) remains the same, meaning changes with morphemes, hence the different forms when translated. She’s also nicer lol, it’s not your favourite queen song, but she wants us to sing together. I like that the transition with Parr is with A for Ai, love.

Parr: I’m being repetitive once again, agglutination + context and all that here. Great use of love as both noun and verb, which remains the same morphologically in Japanese. “I don’t need to be loved”, while remaining the same, becomes even if I’m not loved… uniting all six queens 🥺❤️

TL;DR I love SIX, I love translation, I hope there will be an official recording of the Japanese version (highly doubt it) or someone is brave enough to bootleg it (please lmk)

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@/marie_sugaya (first pic), @/enaco_38 (other pics) on Instagram, 22 February 2025

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This Seymour-Howard moment!!! 😭😭😭

Source: ayako.the.koko (IG story)

✅️ Harumi Princess Twirl 😍

✅️ Harumi Mellow Voice 😍

✅️ Harumi + Airi duet and smol dance 😍

✅️ Harumi + Airi high-five 😍

✅️ Harumi Vibrato (+ Airi smirk of approval) 😍