Image source: Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen musical’s website, ComicNatalie — via Anime News Network
The American stage musical adaptation of Moyoco Anno's Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen (Bikachō Shinshi Kaikoroku) manga will premiere for the generalpublic in New York City off Broadway on October 15. The show will run at The Night Egg, anew theater in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood that is named after the French brothel inthe manga, until January 3, 2027. Previews begin on September 25.
The musical's staff also announced on Wednesday that Sophia Anne Caruso (Miss Goldenweek in live-action One Piece) will star as Colette.
The official website for the musical alsorevealed the following staff members:
Studio Khara is streaming an English-subtitled short animated film based on the manga to commemorate the new announcements. Thefilm originally premiered at the 2015 Japan Animator Expo.
Tony Award-winningstage director and choreographer Rob Ashford (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Curtains, Frozen)is directing and choreographing the Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen musical.
Singer and composer Duncan Sheik ("Barely Breathing," Spring Awakening) is writing the music and lyrics. Leah Nanako Winkler is writing the script. Or Matias ishandling the music direction, conducting, and vocal and incidental music arrangement. Antonio Marion is the executive producer, and Kenny Kurokawa (Team Rayman) is producing. Antonio Marion, Nobu Matsukura, Shin Yamada, Yu Anne Ando, Mika Furuya, Ryōhei Ōtani, and Yumiare associate producers.
The original 2020 announcement credited Devin Keudell of Bespoke Theatricals as general manager and Izumi Takeuchi as producer, although theproject now lists Celina Lam (WJP) as the general manager. The project already received aprivate invite and industry-only presentation at Gibney Dance in New York City in February2025. The musical was also planned for a "worldwide release."
Cork publishes the manga in English, and it describes the manga:
Annolaunched the manga in the magazine in 2013 in Shodensha's Feel Young magazine, and endedit in March 2018. Shodensha released two volumes for the manga. Crunchyroll has also released the first 16 chapters of the series in English. The Japanese government's Ministry ofCultural Affairs honored the manga in the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2020.
Viz Media published Anno's Flowers and Bees manga in North America, Del Rey published her Sugar Sugar Rune manga, and Vertical published her Sakuran manga. Anno also designed characters for her husband Hideaki Anno's Cutie Honey live-action film adaptation, which Bandai Entertainment released on DVD.
Anno's Sugar Sugar Rune manga inspired a 20th anniversary "Sugar Sugar Rune Les deux sorcières" anime short in July 2025, with a separate, full-fledged anime project using similar CG animation to follow.