Yu Todoroki

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Yu Todoroki
Yu Todoroki

Yu Todoroki is a current member of Takarazuka Revue, where she plays Otokoyaku. She joined the revue in 1985, became top star for Snow Troupe in 1997, moved to Senka in 2002 (upon the resigning of her top star partner Tsukikage Hitomi) and became the youngest member of the directors of the revue company in 2003. She is from Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto and her birthday is August 11.

Her nicknames are Tom and Ishii.

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[edit] Troupe history

  • 1985 - 1988 Moon Troupe
  • 1988 - 2002 Snow Troupe
  • 2002 - Superior Members

[edit] Trivia

Currently consider as "Top of the Tops" in the company, she is considered to be one of the greatest Takarazuka actresses in this generation and has many fans. When Hitomi Tsukikage, her second top star partner for Snow Troupe, resigned from the company, she considered resigning as well since she had reached the height of her career in the company. However, Yachiyo Kasugano, the most senior member among the performers (a member since 1929), persuaded her to stay with the company and she became the second top star in the company history to resign from the top star status but remains in the company (Yuri Haruna is the first case). In 2003, also upon the invitation of Yachiyo Kasugano, she became a member of the directors of the company, the youngest ever to serve the board of directors in the company's history.

She has a sense of "maleness" and this has been the key to her success. Not only did French men address her as a man, but a pet dog of Tatsuki Kouju, her co-performer in the Snow Troupe and the top star for Star Troupe later on, even mistook her for a man.

Starting her career with the Moon Troupe, her career began blooming while she was transferes to Snow Troupe. Like the younger stars junior than her such as Youka Wao and Jun Sena, she became the solid second for Fubuki Takane, her top star superior. Upon the resigning of Takane, she rose to the top of her career in Takarazuka stage. Currently as a member of the Senka, she may appear on the Grand Theater stage as special appearance once a while--her most recent appearance is with Jun Sena and the Moon Troupe.

She is the third top star that to be a partner with another legend Mari Hanafusa, but their time together were short due to the formation of the new troupe Cosmos Troupe in 1998 with both Hanafusa and Yoka Wao were transfered for the formation.

In October 2006, she performed Oklahoma! with Moon Troupe (including Hiromu Kiriya) at Nissan Theater.

She is a good painter and has held her own exhibition 3 times.

In 2007, she will have a concert (Lavender Monologue ) and perform the musical Kean.

[edit] Notable performance and role

[edit] Snow new actor era

  • Rose of Versailles - Andre
  • Lovers Myths (First leading performance at Takarazuka Bow Hall)

[edit] Snow era

[edit] Snow top star era

  • Midnight Ghost (Top Star Debute)
  • Praise of Sping Cherry
  • A man who was called Bacchus
  • Arch of Triumph - Ravic
  • Country of Hard Gold - Yataro Iwasaki
  • Flaming Love - Fu Chai, King of Wu (Last performance as the top star of Snow Troupe)

[edit] Senka era

  • Gone with the Wind (Senka-Snow & Senka-Flower) - Rhett Butler
  • A Flute Named Wind (Flower) - Matsudaira Tadateru Kazusanosuke (First special appearance as a Senka member)
  • Endless Flight/Season of Angels/Applause Takarazuka! (Flower)
  • Hanakuyou - Commemoration of the Buddha's Birthday (Senka-Snow) - Emperor Go-Mizunoo
  • In Quest of the Blue Bird (Snow) - Jake MacNaughton
  • Shigure Hill Road in Nagasaki (Star) - Isaji
  • Rome at Dawn (Moon) - Julius Caesar
  • Oklahoma! (Senka-Moon) - Curly McLain
  • Kean (musical) (Senka-Star) - Edmund Kean

[edit] Personal concert

  • L'hortensia de Juin
  • Les Jours d'Amour
  • Noche de Yu
  • The Way Yu are
  • Yu Quiero Guitarras
  • Alpha - 20ans FACE OF YU (Twentith Anniversary Concert)
  • Lavender Monologue


Preceded by
Fubuki Takane		 Top Star (Otokoyaku) for Snow Troupe
1997-2002		 Succeeded by
Yuu Emao
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