Sumire Haruno
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Sumire Haruno is the currently top star (otokoyaku) for Flower Troupe of Takarazuka Revue. She joined the revue in 1991 and became the top star in 2002. She is from Komae, Tokyo, her birthday is December 15 and her bloodtype is AB.
Her nicknames are Osa and Masa-chan.
She is the first otokoyaku of her class to reach the top (followed by fellow classmate and former troupe-mate Hikaru Asami by 3 months).
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[edit] Troupe History
1991- Flower Troupe
[edit] Trivia
Following the examples of Mira Anju, Miki Maya and Mire Aika (Although she had almost her Takarazuka career in the Flower troupe, Hibiki Takumi had been in Senka for 2 years before she became the top star of the Troupe), she became the top star of the troupe she is always with without any troupe transfer. Also, another uniqueness of her career is that her status of being the second man was a short-lived one, because Hibiki Takumi became severely ill with myelitis during the Grand Theater performance. Haruno took over the leading role for the Tokyo performance. At that point, she unofficially became the top star of the troupe. However, it is Elizabeth that is considered as her official top star debut without top star overlap. With this production of Elizabeth, she is the first top star to perform as Der Top as debute.
She is one of the promising young stars that were promoted by the company in 1999, along with Jun Sena, the current top star for Moon Troupe; Hikaru Asami, the former top star for Snow Troupe; Kei Takashiro, the former top star for Cosmo Troupe; Kei Aran, the current top star for Star Troupe, Natsuki Mizu, the current top star for Snow Troupe and Yūga Yamato, the current top star for Cosmo Troupe.
Currently, she is the only top star that has three top star partners (Rei Ootori, Miyo Fuzuki and Ayane Sakurano), which is quite rare in an otokoyaku's case.
Even as a top star, she has maintained a good friendship with fellow stars (as well as former troupe-mates) such as Jun Sena, Hikaru Asami and Rira Maikaze.
In 2006, she had special appearance in the Snow production of Rose of Versailles, this is the first performance with classmate and former troupe mate Hikaru Asami since the troupe transfer for Asami in 1998 and is the last with the resignation of latter.
She is the only star that has protrayed Der Tod from Elisabeth and Prince Rudolph from Mayerling, who was being attached to Der Tod in the previous musical.
She wanted to be a musumeyaku when she first entered Takarazuka.
She is being praised as the James Stewart of the company by a director of the company
[edit] Notable Roles and Performances
[edit] New Actor Era
- Black Jack - Cain
- Kanashimi no Cordova - Vicente
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - J. Pierrepont Finch (leading role shared with Hiromu Kiriya)
- Hollywood Babylon - Arthur Cochran (her role in the formal performance is Peter Hunt)
- That's Revue - Harukaze Taihei (her role in the formal performance is Matsumoto)
[edit] Regular Cast Era
- Speakeasy - Bradley
- Ludwig II - Richard Hornig
- Asaki Yume Mishi - Genji Monogatari - Spirit of Time
- Michelangelo - Rafaello Sanzio
- Canary - Father Roblow
- In the Amber-Hued Rain - Louis Valentin
[edit] Top Star Era
- In the Amber-Hued Rain - Claude de Bernard (unofficial first leading role)
- Growing Purple Flower - Prince Naka no Ōe (official first leading role)
- Elizabeth - Der Tod (Grand Theater Top Star Debute)
- Immortal Thorns - Eri Makropoulos and Errol Maxwell
- A Flute Named Wind - Hanai Yoshio Mondonosho
- Season of Angels - Gustave and King Pescatore
- Java no Odoriko - Adinan
- La Esperanza - Carlos
- Hand Drum of Heaven, Nijihito
- Marrakech: The Crimson Gravestone - Ludwig
- Palermo Shines in the Setting Sun - Vittorio Rossi
- Rose of Versailles (Special Appearance for Snow Performance) - Andre
- Apartment Cinema - Wolf
- Phantom - Phantom/Erik
- Mayerling - Rudolph
- Notebook of Kogorou Akechi - The Black Lizard - Kogorou Akechi
[edit] Personal Concert
- Metamorphosis
- S (es)
- I Got Music
| Preceded by Hibiki Takumi |
Top Star (Otokoyaku) for Flower Troupe 2002-Current |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
