Death Note: The Musical

COMPOSER - Frank Wildhorn

LYRICIST - Jack Murphy

LIBRETTO - Ivan Menchell

SYNOPSIS:

Based on the popular shōnen manga Death Note opened exclusively in Japan and South Korea. The show is an adaptation of the manga's first arc, and the story remains more or less the same. Tired of living in an "unjust" world where criminals continue to run rampant, high school student Light Yagami stumbles upon a black notebook, dropped into the human world by a Shinigami named Ryuk, that holds the ability to kill a person just by writing their name within its pages. Hoping to use this newfound power to purge the world of evil, Light goes on a massive killing spree under the alias "Kira", while the mysterious detective L sets off to stop the bloodshed and take Kira down once and for all.

PREMIER:

THEATER - Nissay Theatre, Tokyo, Japan

OPENING - April 6, 2015

LANGUAGE - Japanese

ORIGINAL CAST - Kenji Urai, Hayato Kakizawa, Teppei Koike, Fuka Yuzuki, Megumi Hamada, Takeshi Kaga, Kotaro Yoshida, Ami Maeshima

DIRECTOR - Tamiya Kuriyama

TRANSLATORS - Ako Takahashi, Kayoko Jo

PRODUCTION HISTORY:

2014 Concept album

2015 Tokyo 

2015 Seoul 

2017 Seoul

2017 Tokyo 

2017 Taichung 

2020 Tokyo 

2021 Moscow (concert) 

2022 Seoul 

2022 Rio de Janeiro