After the photo posted on Thursday, I was looking for something interesting and Ruritania-related in the media, for my Sunday post .

Well, here goes – an excerpt from the Takarazuka staging of Anthony Hope‘s Prisoner of Zenda as an all-female-cast musical*, in the year 2000.

This is Rupert of Hentzau (actress and singer Kouju Tatsuki) doing his thing, and being suitably rakish.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWmJ_qrCyPY

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* And yes, it is implausible like all musicals, only a little more so.

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