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Sailor Moon Musicals

Sailor Moon
Sailormoonmusical seramyu flyer.jpg
Flyer from the 2004 Musical
Music Akiko Kosaka
Lyrics Kayoko Fuyumori
Junya Saiki
Basis Naoko Takeuchi
Sailor Moon

The Sailor Moon musicals (セーラームーン・ミュージカル Sērāmūn Myūjikaru?), commonly referred to as SeraMyu (セラミュー Sērāmyū?), are a series of live theatre productions based on the Sailor Moon manga by Naoko Takeuchi. The series consists of 31 musicals which have had more than 800 performances since the show opened in the summer of 1993. The producers generally follow and expand upon plot concepts presented in the anime and manga, however there are also several original plot lines.

The series was staged by a division of the Japanese entertainment company Bandai and generally ran three times a year to match with the holidays of Japanese schools. It became the practices that in the winter the only venue for would be the Sunshine Theatre in the Ikebukuro area of Tokyo; however in the summer it would also tour the larger cities in Japan.

After The New Legend of Kaguya Island (Revised Edition) (新・かぐや島伝説 <改訂版> Shin Kaguya Shima Densetsu (Kaiteiban)?) was staged in January 2005, the actresses for Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter "graduated" with the final performance, and the series then entered into, what BMO (the official fan club) called, a "short hiatus",


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