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Evangelion Stage Play Reveals New Cast Members, May Opening
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The staff for Evangelion Beyond, the stage play for the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, revealed four new cast members.
The cast includes (pictured above starting on top from left to right, name romanizations not confirmed):
- Masataka Kubota as Sо̄shi Watamori
- Shizuka Ishibashi as Yū Mizuho
- Nijirō Murakami as Tan Hasumi
- Tetsushi Tanaka as Masatsugu Sogо̄
The play will run from May 6-May 28 in Tokyo's Kabukicho Tower. The play will be the debut stage production for that building's new Theater Milano-za performing arts venue. The play will then run from June 3-4 at the Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre in Nagano and from June 10-19 at the Morinomiya Piloti Hall in Osaka. Business conglomerate Tokyu and its Tokyu Recreation Co., Ltd. subsidiary are producing the play. TheEvangelion Kabukicho Impact promotion, which includes the play, will begin on April 28.
Belgian stage performer and director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is directing and choreographing the stage play. Seiji Nozoe is writing the script.
Evangelion: 3.0+1.01: Thrice Upon A Time (Shin Evangelion Gekijō-ban :||), the final film of Hideaki Anno's Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, opened in Japan on March 8, 2021, and ranked #1 in its opening weekend. The film surpassed 10 billion yen (about US$74 million) in the Japanese box office. The film's new Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 version began playing in June 2021 for the film's "last run." The new version contains "minor revisions" to some animation sequences, but does not change the film's story. The film debuted on the Amazon Prime Video service worldwide in August 2021.
GKIDS screened the Evangelion: 3.0+1.01: Thrice Upon A Time (Shin Evangelion Gekijō-ban :||) film in select IMAX theaters in the U.S. on November 30. The film then screened in U.S. theaters on December 6, 8, and 11. GKIDS will release the film on home video at a later date.
Source: Comic Natalie
