From the NME.
“The Age of the Samurai is about to begin…”
A modern theatre production inspired by the Queen album ‘A Night At The Opera’ will open in Japan next month with the band’s blessing.
Titled Q: A Night At The Kabuki, the show will feature all songs from the 1975 rock opus, and will be staged in Tokyo, Osaka and Kitakyushu.
The play is led by writer/director Hideki Noda of independent theatre company NODA•MAP. As Noda tells it, someone close to the band came to him with the idea to turn ‘A Night At The Opera’ into a play, two years before the success of the blockbuster Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.
“Even though I was only half-convinced, I set about half-naked and sweating all over doing numerous workshops trying to put into words the inspiration I got from ‘A Night At The Opera’,” Noda said in a statement. “I then conveyed my ideas to that someone close to the band, and what do you know! I received a reply from Queen saying it was OK to go forward with the play.”
In a statement, Queen’s Brian May said he was “thrilled and honoured” to have his music soundtrack the production. “How wonderful to be a part of Japanese culture after all these years,” May said, “with what promises to be a new chapter in theatre history in this first year of the new Reiwa era.”
Set in medieval Japan, the show puts its own spin on Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet by re-imagining the tragedy’s ending: what would have happened if the star-crossed lovers had survived? Noda describes the play as “pretty unconventional in a weird kabuki way”.
Q: A Night At The Kabuki will premiere at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre on October 8. It will also be staged at the Shin Kabuki-za Theater in Osaka and the Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center in Kitakyushu, from October 19 to 27 and October 31 to November 4 respectively.
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- Queen - A Night At The Opera - 1st - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £40.00, $50.00, €46.80 (New Item) (arrived 19-Apr-2024 13:09)on April 20, 2024 at 2:21 am
QUEEN A Night At The Opera (Classic 1975 UK first press 12-track LP with picture labels & 'BLAIRS' etched into the run-off area, their fourth studio album including the classic hit Bohemian Rhapsody, embossed gatefold picture sleeve with picture inner. The sleeve [VG] shows some minor discolouring to the back. The inner has some seam splits along some of the edges, whilst the vinyl is clean & grades EX with minimal signs of wear EMTC103) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Queen - Queen II - Italian - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.25, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 08-Apr-2024 14:56)on April 20, 2024 at 2:21 am
QUEEN Queen II (1974 Italian 11-track LP with the date '26-4-74' machine stamped in the run-outs, housed in a single pocket picture sleeve with English lyric inner with round edges & flipbacks. The cover [VG] has some light paper scuffing & fading-to-white around the edges, with all text legible, the sleeve has a samll tape repair to one edge due to a small split & the vinyl shows just a few light signs of play 3C064-95186)
- Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - UK - 3" CD single - £20.00, $25.00, €23.40 (New Item) (arrived 01-Apr-2024 13:28)on April 20, 2024 at 2:21 am
QUEEN Bohemian Rhapsody (1988 UK 3-track 3" CD single including I'm In Love With My Car & You're My Best Friend, housed in a superb 3" card picture wallet. The sleeve shows a couple of light marks from storage & the disc is Excellent with minor signs of play QUECD3)
- Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - Japanese - 3" CD single - £35.00, $43.75, €40.95 (New Item) (arrived 01-Apr-2024 13:31)on April 20, 2024 at 2:21 am
QUEEN Bohemian Rhapsody (2000 Japanese 3-track 3" CD single, issued to coincide with the release of the 'Visions' album. Includes a Karoake Version performed by Queen plus Now I'm Here, housed in a unique lilac snap-pack picture sleeve with English lyric insert - The front of the sleeve also promotes the Toyota Pronard TV for which the track was used in the marketing campaign TODP-2560)
- Queen - A Winter's Tale - Xmas Pack - UK - CD single - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 01-Apr-2024 13:35)on April 20, 2024 at 2:21 am
QUEEN A Winter's Tale (1995 UK limited edition 3-track CD single, including Thank God It's Christmas & Rock In Rio Blues, housed in a green card Christmas envelope pack. The packaging shows some minor edge scuffing & the custom title sticker on the back is unbroken & the disc is unplayed CDQUEENS22)
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