The audience seats rotate 360 degrees!?

A musical depicting young people who devote themselves to their part-time jobs and lessons
Surprised voices at the unique performance with the audience on the stage!

The Magcal Performing Arts Academy, which opened in October 2014, is a musical star training institution where more than 20 young people from high school to 25 years old gather. We invite Kensuke Yokouchi, who presides over Gekidan Tobiraza, to teach acting, Keiko Fukasawa to teach singing, and Ms. Lucky Ikeda and Eri Saiki to teach dance.
 
In April 2016, "Byte Show <Magcal Academy 2016 version>" was performed as a result presentation. An arrangement of the musical staged at Tobiraza Theater Company in 2013, with 14 students giving a passionate performance of young people working hard at part-time jobs. The first performance that they will challenge is "Byte Show YOKOHAMA -Seishun Hen-". A new cast and a new episode were added to "Magcal Academy 2016", drawing a more multilayered human pattern.

"Byte Show" is an ensemble drama about young people who spend their days immersed in part-time jobs to make a living, even though they are passionate about dance and theater. A young dancer who keeps changing jobs, a girl who struggles between love and her dream, a theater company member who is passionate but has no money, a girl who dreams of becoming an idol, a girl who gets caught in a corrupt office, and so on. I will draw a figure fighting with in an omnibus format.
 
When the start of the performance was announced, the first thing that surprised me was the stage set. When the curtain goes up, the audience seats in the hall appear in front of you! Yes, the audience was not sitting in the audience seats, but in special seats on the stage. On the other hand, the cast looked at the stage with envy from the audience and sang with enthusiasm, "I want to stand on this stage someday." From the very beginning, it captured the hearts of the audience.

What's more, the audience seats rotate 360 degrees every time the scene changes, utilizing the "Mawaributai" mechanism in which the center of the stage rotates! The audience was excited with unique productions, such as using the steel staircase to install the lighting as a construction site and using the "Auction stage". In addition, it seems that the surprising mechanism of "rotating the audience" is the first attempt in the history of the Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Center Hall in 1954.
 
The audience seemed to be touched by the sight of young people chasing their dreams while working full-time at their part-time job, singing and dancing. I was staring at the gushing heat, my cheeks burning. From the "Magcal Academy 2016 version" at the result presentation, the singing voice has been further refined and the expressiveness of the dance has been enriched. It was two hours in which I could feel a certain growth. All three days of performances were sold out. In the future, we are thinking about performing original works, so please look forward to the future Magcal Performing Arts Academy.
 

Additional recruitment for 2016 students!
Interview with three main cast members

Left: Mikako Yoshida Center: Moeyo Kato Right: Yumi Kitamura

The Magcal Performing Arts Academy has been steadily progressing since the results presentation in April. After the performance, we received comments from the three main cast members.
 

Moeyo Kato/role of Ai
At the results presentation, the rehearsal period was two or three weeks, but this time I rehearsed for a full month. After all, the audience will not be satisfied with the same level as the results presentation. In order to aim for a higher level, I increased the amount of practice and the amount of advice I received.
 
However, we are inexperienced, and this performance is just a passing point. I realized again that there is still a long way to go. For example, in my case, the voice that says the lines and the voice that sings are different. If you change your voice, it will be difficult for the audience to understand you, so you have to be able to sing in your acting voice as part of the play. For that reason, I think I have to practice more and more.
 
The academy has grown even more with the arrival of the 2016 academic year. Everyone inspires me, and I don't think I can lose. I am really happy that there are places like this. I have been under the guidance of Kensuke Yokouchi for about seven years since before this academy, and I still respect him as much as I did in the past. I feel blessed to have such a great person watch my performance. If you are interested, I would love to invite you to join the academy. Let's make the best musical together!

Mikako Yoshida as Yumi
I played the same role at the results presentation, but this time there are overwhelmingly more lines and dances. In particular, my role had a romantic element, and it was difficult to express. But it was also very rewarding. During the rehearsals, I enjoyed communicating with everyone and absorbed new things.
 
Compared to before, my voice has come out a little more, but there are still issues. Every performance had its successes and failures, and I got nervous. I want to be able to do more plays.
 
With the addition of new people to the academy, I believe that each individual's passion and power spread throughout the venue. If you are interested, please come and visit us.

Yumi Kitamura as Kazue
I participated in the Magcal Performing Arts Academy for the first time this time. It was the first time that the stage rotated, and everything was beyond my imagination. I'm surprised that I'm appearing (laughs).
 
It was a lot of fun to practice with everyone at the academy. There are many high school students at the academy, so I am the oldest at 24. While thinking, "Everyone is young!", we received instruction together. I was also inspired a lot.
 
I would like to continue to stand on stage.

Singing and dancing are fields in which the results of practice are visible. This performance was a full-fledged stage that overflowed with the passion of the cast and the desire to bet on the stage, and I could feel the growth from the results presentation. Please look forward to the Academy's original works scheduled for next year and the future of the Academy.
 

The Magcal Performing Arts Academy is currently accepting additional applications for 2016 students!
For details, please visit the website below.
http://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/cnt/f531313/p805757.html