Hayao Miyazaki’s animated masterpiece “Spirited Away” will be adapted for the stage for a production set to premiere in Japan next year.
Tony and Olivier Award winner John Caird, who wrote the English-language book and co-directed the hit musical “Les Misérables,” will write and direct the stage adaptation based on Miyazaki’s 2001 film.
The new version of “Spirited Away” is set to premiere at Toho’s Imperial Theater in Tokyo next February and March. The production will then tour throughout Japan, including to Osaka (April), Fukuoka (May), Sapporo (June) and Nagoya (June and July).
“Spirited Away,” which is known in Japan under its original title “Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi,” is approaching its 20th anniversary later this year, and the stage premiere will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the film winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2002.
Arguably the best film of animation master Hayao Miyazaki, “Spirited Away...
Tony and Olivier Award winner John Caird, who wrote the English-language book and co-directed the hit musical “Les Misérables,” will write and direct the stage adaptation based on Miyazaki’s 2001 film.
The new version of “Spirited Away” is set to premiere at Toho’s Imperial Theater in Tokyo next February and March. The production will then tour throughout Japan, including to Osaka (April), Fukuoka (May), Sapporo (June) and Nagoya (June and July).
“Spirited Away,” which is known in Japan under its original title “Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi,” is approaching its 20th anniversary later this year, and the stage premiere will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the film winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2002.
Arguably the best film of animation master Hayao Miyazaki, “Spirited Away...
- 2/26/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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