| "ATTACK ON TITAN: The Musical" sells out entire run at New York City Center | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:55 pm EDT 10/22/24 | |
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| https://attackontitan-themusical.com/ ATTACK on TITAN: The Musical, the live 2.5D Musical entertainment based on the wildly popular manga (comic book) by Hajime Isayama and published by Kodansha, has sold out its entire New York engagement at New York City Center, selling about 9000 tickets over its four- performance engagement this past weekend. Directed by breakdance world champion Go Ueki (HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- Rule the Stag e), ATTACK on TITAN: The Musical had its world premiere in Osaka and Tokyo in January, 2023 to great success. The New York City Center engagement marked the musical’s first international performance and the show will be returning to Japan in December and January. Critics and fans are raving about ATTACK on TITAN: The Musical as well. Mixed Feelings cheered, “It is absolutely insane! The Spiderman musical wishes it was this sick,” and ComicBook.com applauded, “Fingers crossed that these performances will mean that more anime stage plays make their way to the West.” Yahoo Japan said, “Attention is growing on the musical version of Attack on Titan, which is loved all over the world,” and Crunchyroll praised the production, calling it “a colossal first appearance.” The musical’s reach is global. Fans traveled from 48 states around the country to see ATTACK ON TITAN: The Musical, as well as Austria, Belgium. Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. “ATTACK on TITAN: The Musical had one of the most successful on-sales of any of our shows and introduced thousands of new people to New York City Center,” said Michael Rosenberg, President and CEO of New York City Center. “The artists, crew, and production team were a joy to work with and integrated beautifully with our Production Staff. The press and social media coverage expanded well beyond our traditional reach - introducing City Center to an entirely new audience. It was an honor to have the first 2.5D musical share the same stage as our Fall for Dance Festival and our Tony Award-winning Encores! series.” ATTACK on TITAN: The Musical has book by Masafumi Hata, music supervision by KEN THE 390, and lyrics by Kaori Miura, and combines conventional musical theatre techniques with state-of-the-art technology, performed by a cast of over 30. A century ago, the grotesque giants known as Titans appeared and consumed all but the last remnants of humanity. The survivors took refuge behind giant walls. Today, the threat of the Titans is a distant memory, and a boy named Eren Yeager yearns to explore the world beyond his current circumstances. What began as a childish dream, though, will become an all-too-real nightmare when the Titans return and humanity is once again on the brink of extinction. The ATTACK on TITAN manga was serialized in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine by Kodansha from 2009-2021, winning numerous awards across Japan and the US including the Kodansha Manga Award and Harvey Award. The manga is comprised of 34 volumes, and there have been many adaptations including anime television series, video games, novels & more. ATTACK on TITAN has sold 140 million copies and has been translated into 18 languages and published in over 180 countries. Over the last three years, ATTACK on TITAN has won more than 10 awards from the Crunchyroll Anime Awards for the anime version, which celebrates the creators, performers, and musicians powering the global love of anime. Another 2.5 the musical made its US premiere in 2019, when “Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon” The Super Live played Washington DC at Warner Theatre and New York City at PlayStation Theater. In Japan, there are stage productions based on manga, anime, and video games, which started to be called 2.5 dimensional musicals by fans around 2000. Manga and animation are in 2D, and live theatre is in 3D. Therefore, they call performances based on manga and animations 2.5D. ATTACK on TITAN: The Musical was performed in Japanese with English supertitles. The cast of ATTACK on TITAN: The Musical includes: Kurumu Okamiya as Eren Yeager, Sara Takatsuki as Mikasa Ackerman, Eito Konishi as Armin Arlert, Ryo Matsuda as Levi, and Takuro Ohno as Erwin Smith. Also featured are: Shota Matsuda, Kazuaki Yasue, Yuuri Takahashi, Sena, Mitsu Murata, Takeshi Hayashino, Masanori Tomita, Mimi Maihane, Mitsuru Karahashi, Riona Tatemichi and more. ATTACK on TITAN: The Musical is produced by Michiho Matsumoto (Nelke Planning), Rie Yoneda (S-SIZE) and New York Producer Kumiko Yoshii (Gorgeous Entertainment). FOLLOW ATTACK on TITAN: The Musical ON TWITTER/X: https://twitter.com/shingekimusical ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/attackontitan_themusical ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@shingekimusical FOLLOW ATTACK on TITAN (The Anime) ON TWITTER/X: https://twitter.com/anime_shingeki ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/anime_shingeki_official/ ON TIK TOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@shingeki_anime_official BIOS Kodansha KODANSHA Ltd. is Japan’s leading publishing house based in Tokyo, having delivered stories into ready hands across the globe with a wide variety of content from manga to novels, fashion magazines, news journals, and picture books for children, as well as TV anime, movies, series, and video games since 1909 in the spirit of “Inspire Impossible Stories.” KODANSHA is globally recognized as the licensor of some of the world’s most loved manga IPs, such as AKIRA, Attack on Titan, and Ghost in the Shell. For more information, visit: www.kodansha.com/ NELKE PLANNING Established in 1994. Nelke Planning creates various theatrical productions, including 2.5-Dimensional Musicals, which are 3D theatrical presentations of 2D contents, such as Japanese manga, anime, and video games. Among Nelke Planning’s well-known 2.5-Dimensional Musical works are Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Musical, Live Spectacle NARUTO, and KIMETSU NO YAIBA the stage. S-SIZE Established in 2014, S-SIZE's core activities involve the planning and production theater, film, and drama projects in Japan. S-SIZE is also engaged in investment overseas, including to Broadway productions, and continues to expand the scope of its operations worldwide. S-SIZE's Broadway investments include Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, and Stereophonic. S-SIZE's most well-known productions in Japan include TOUKEN RANBU THE STAGE and HYPNOSISMIC -Division Rap Battle- Rule the Stage. GORGEOUS ENTERTAINMENT Founded in 1997, Gorgeous Entertainment is a New York-based theater and special event production company. Its President Kumiko Yoshii’s credits include MJ, Be More Chill, Prince of Broadway and Pacific Overtures on Broadway, the Museum of Broadway, and numerous other productions (BAM, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the United Nations, West End and Japan) including “Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon” The Super Live in NYC. Kumiko is the Executive Producer of the annual event Japan Parade. Upcoming: The Karate Kid – the Musical, Working Girl, and Pilot and The Little Prince – Cyber Musical in Katowice, Poland, premiering this fall. NEW YORK CITY CENTER (Michael S. Rosenberg, President & CEO) has played a defining role in the cultural life of the city since 1943. The distinctive Neo-Moorish building was founded by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia as Manhattan’s first performing arts center with the mission of making the best in theater, dance, and music accessible to all audiences. This commitment continues today through celebrated dance and musical theater series like the Fall for Dance Festival and the Tony-honored Encores! series; the annual season by Principal Dance Company Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; and new dance series Artists at the Center. City Center welcomes audiences to experience internationally acclaimed artists including Kyle Abraham, Matthew Bourne, Ayodele Casel, Manhattan Theatre Club, Nederlands Dans Theater, and Twyla Tharp, on the same stage where legends made their mark. Dedicated to a culture built on the values of curiosity, collaboration, accessibility, and inclusivity, City Center’s dynamic programming, art exhibitions, and studio events are complemented by education and community engagement programs that bring the performing arts to thousands of New York City students, teachers, and families every year.NYCityCenter.org |
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