Reina Tanaka Cast in Musical ‘The Three Musketeers: Reborn’ — 5ch Reacts: ‘Ueda x Reina Has Arrived!’

Tatsuya Ueda to star in musical "The Three Musketeers: Reborn," with Richard Kusama Keita and others joining the cast
https://natalie.mu/stage/news/686850

Musical "The Three Musketeers: Reborn"
Dates & Venues
January 15 (Fri) – 24 (Sun), 2027, Sky Theatre MBS, Osaka
February 3 (Wed) – 26 (Fri), 2027, Shinbashi Enbujo, Tokyo
Staff
Original story: Alexandre Dumas
Music: Michael David / Bryan Adams
Direction, adaptation & lyric translation: Koumei Kanno

Cast
Athos: Tatsuya Ueda
D'Artagnan: Richard Kusama Keita
Aramis: Shota Hayashi
Porthos: Daichi Imae
Milady: Narumi Tamaoki
Constance: Reina Tanaka
Jussac: Hirotaka Uchi
Cardinal Richelieu: Koji Utsumi

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Richard Kusama lol

Re: #3
The guy who got arrested for indecent exposure outdoors and was kicked out of his group

You're probably the only one here who actually knows anything about Tanaka's stage career

Names in parentheses are the previous cast

Athos: Tatsuya Ueda (Masayuki Sakamoto)
D'Artagnan: Richard Kusama Keita (Seiya Suezawa)
Aramis: Shota Hayashi (Kohei Kamiguchi)
Porthos: Daichi Imae (Yuichi Harada)
Milady: Narumi Tamaoki (Sylvia Grab)
Constance: Reina Tanaka (China Yabiku)
Jussac: Hirotaka Uchi (Ryuji Ueyama)
Cardinal Richelieu: Koji Utsumi (Kiyotaka Imai)

<Osaka> Sky Theatre MBS
January 15 (Fri) – 24 (Sun), 2027, Sky Theatre MBS, 11 performances
Presented by: MBS
Produced by: Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Planning/Production: Quaras

<Tokyo> Shinbashi Enbujo
February 3 (Wed) – 26 (Fri), 2027, Shinbashi Enbujo, 29 performances
Presented/Produced by: Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Planning/Production: Quaras

In the anime version of The Three Musketeers, Constance was voiced by Noriko Hidaka

Didn't realize the Hikaru Genji guy hadn't left the agency (Hikaru Genji = a famous 1980s Johnny's idol group)

I think Ueda might be the best-looking guy in Johnny's history

Wait, is Constance even the heroine?
Anyway, with this lineup there's no need to worry about ticket sales
Didn't realize Tamaoki was still active

Wait, is this the Ueda whose only 'scandal' in his whole long career is that he never danced to 'Chankapana'? (a KAT-TUN song/dance move he famously skipped)

If anything, it's Reina's own fans who are going to struggle to get tickets at this level

This is wild
So it's a ticket war against Johnny's fans now
Honestly this lineup screams 'we're going all out to sell tickets'

She's the heroine in the original novel, but this production seems to center on Athos, so that's different here

There's no way Tanaka would go through an audition — this has to be a direct offer

Re: #35
Cheap to hire, can sing, can move, good looks, can act, doesn't cause trouble, and has free time
No wonder she gets so many offers

Apparently there's rapping in it too — guess it's a more modern-style arrangement

At Tanaka's level she's got the track record, so it's an offer, not an audition
If she did audition she'd win by a landslide anyway

Re: #40
There's basically nobody more talented than Tanaka still going around doing auditions

Is this a Johnny's production?

Re: #41
Every guy in it is from Johnny's

It's a Johnny's production
Which actually makes it easier, I think
Tickets and everything else should sell just fine

She probably gets offers for smaller productions too, but stage work eats up so much time — if you're going to do it, might as well stick to big ones like this

Re: #43
Depending on the co-stars, it can be a hassle too

Reina's said outright that she only takes good roles

I wonder if Tanaka's husband has some connection to Johnny's

I'd seen people on X saying for a while now that they wanted an Ueda x Tanaka pairing
Didn't think it would actually happen

I don't want Reina getting overshadowed by the Johnny's guys…

Re: #50
She has kids, so Johnny's is probably comfortable offering her the role

Over on X too, people are going 'Ueda x Reina has arrived!' lol

Re: #56
Is there something going on between her and Ueda?

This looks like it'll be a pretty good production
Good for her

Reina's presence is amazing
People are going wild off just the casting announcement

Re: #57
People say if Reina Tanaka were a man she'd be Tatsuya Ueda, and if Tatsuya Ueda were a woman he'd be Reina Tanaka

Richard's the vocal member in Aぇ! group, I think
A skill really can save you (i.e., his singing chops are what got him in)