{"id":4594,"date":"2016-05-11T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2019-07-22T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:11:47","slug":"takarazuka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/05\/11\/takarazuka\/","title":{"rendered":"Takarazuka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During&nbsp;Golden Week, I had an opportunity to go see a Takarazuka show. &nbsp;I had heard that the shows were a lot of fun, so I thought that I would take the opportunity to see a show while I was here. &nbsp;It&#8217;s also interesting to note that all of the roles are played by women. &nbsp;These shows feel like something you would watch on Broadway. &nbsp;Takurazuka performs various kinds of shows, from Western plays to traditional Japanese drama.<\/p>\n<p>The show that was playing was called &#8220;Me and My Girl.&#8221; &nbsp;The play itself was fun, and the actors were amazing. &nbsp;You an tell that the Takarazuka actors put a lot of work into the play. &nbsp;It was nice to see how dedicated the actors were to putting on an amazing show.<\/p>\n<p>After the play had finished, the actors performed many, if not all, of the musical numbers again. &nbsp;This time, however, the outfits were more extravagant. &nbsp;The costumes were no less beautiful than the costumes they wore during the show, but it was a nice way to end the show. &nbsp;If I ever got the chance, I would definitely see another Takurazuka show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During&nbsp;Golden Week, I had an opportunity to go see a Takarazuka show. &nbsp;I had heard that the shows were a lot of fun, so I thought that I would take the opportunity to see a show while I was here. &nbsp;It&#8217;s also interesting to note that all of the roles are played by women. &nbsp;These&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[200,205,313,318],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansai","tag-japan","tag-kansai-gaidai","tag-study-abroad","tag-takarazuka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16565,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/16565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}