Dying Tag the Musical Will get Original Jog in November

The legit X (beforehand Twitter) story of Frank Wildhorn’s Dying Tag the Musical announced on Friday its current bustle in November at the Tokyo Tatemono Brillia Hall to commemorate the musical’s tenth anniversary. The group also revealed the musical’s current cast.

The current cast for the musical are (portray above from high left to bottom sincere):

• Kato Seishiro and Ao Watanabe as Gentle Yagami (double cast)
• Hiroki Miura as L
• Riho Sayashi as Misa Amane
• Riko of Jpop group HUNNY BEE as Sayu Yagami
• Megumi Hamada as Rem
• Kenji Urai as Ryuk
• Kiyotaka Imai as Sōichirō Yagami

Hamada will reprise her role from the musical’s first bustle in 2015. Urai, who played Gentle Yagami in the first bustle, returns as Ryuk.

Frank Wildhorn, an American composer identified for songs sung by Whitney Houston (“Where Do Broken Hearts Go?”) and Natalie Cole, is again scoring the Dying Tag musical. Tamiya Kuriyama, a recipient of the Japanese government’s Medal with Purple Ribbon, is again directing. Jack Murphy (The Civil Battle, Rudolf, Carmen, Wonderland, The Depend of Monte Cristo) is again writing the lyrics, and Ivan Menchell (The Cemetery Club, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bonnie and Clyde) returns to write the script.

Kayoko Jo is in price of translation, and Ako Takahashi is handling lyrics translation.

The musical debuted in 2015 and had reruns in Japan in 2017 and in 2020. The musical also held a efficiency in London in 2023.

In Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata‘s original 2003-2006 supernatural suspense manga, youngster Gentle Yagami finds a notebook with which he can build individuals to death by writing their names. He begins a self-anointed marketing campaign against the criminals of the world, and a cat-and-mouse recreation begins with the authorities and one idiosyncratic genius detective.

In addition to the 2006 tv anime adaptation and tie-in specials, Dying Tag also bought a Japanese reside-action film adaptation in 2006, with a sequel titled Dying Tag: The Remaining Name, and a spinoff titled L swap the WorLd in 2008. A reside-action tv series adaptation premiered in July 2015, and ended in September 2015. A current film titled Dying Tag: Gentle up the NEW world, described as a “forbidden sequel” to the first reside-action film, opened in Japan in October 2016. Netflix launched a reside-action Dying Tag film by director Adam Wingard in August 2017.

Viz Media launched the manga, old Japanese reside-action movies, anime, and other tie-in initiatives in North The us, and Crunchyroll streamed the reside-action tv series. Funimation licensed the Dying Tag, Dying Tag: The Remaining Name, and Dying Tag Gentle up the NEW world movies and launched the movies on dwelling video in January 2019.

A current Netflix Dying Tag reside-action adaptation by Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer (Stranger Things) used to be announced in 2022.

Sources: Dying Tag The Musical’s X/Twitter story, Stage Natalie