[3][Note 1] It is a story of "boys' dreams, setbacks, and friendship,"[5] interwoven with boxing, flying direction,[5] comedy, and improvisation.
[12] Yokoyama, a movie producer, selects Kazuya to play the lead role in a film about the life of legendary boxer Subaru.
The story follows three people after the breakup of their idol group,[13] who are each involved in a boxing movie as a lead actor, a model athlete, and the theme song writer.
Yuta quits boxing just before his rookie championship match, but he wants big money and gets a job starring in a movie through Toshiya, who has become a music producer.
Act 2 While Yuta is on the run, Kaito, who has been performing as one of the "Jet Boys," suffers a seizure on a singing show and is reunited with Kent, who is in the hospital.
Yasuyi and Kent appear at their doorstep, where they reveal that the knife incident was an accident, and that the lead in the glove was Sanada's madness under Rika's direction, and Yuta is finally cleared of suspicion.
Yuta and Kaito continued to box with Kent in their hearts after he dies The first performance at Imperial Theatre starred 21-year-old Hideaki Takizawa.
[24] Tsubasa Makoto[39]Kohei MatsumotoTakashi Nikaido[40] Kento Senga[41]Yuya TakakiKota Yabu[29]Wataru Yokoo[42] Performed at Umeda Arts Theatre from April 27 to May 15, 2005.
[52] The circus scene in the first act featured a tightrope walker suspended in midair,[53] Kamenashi flying 15 meters in the air,[49] Junnosuke Taguchi's lat technique, and A.B.C.
In addition, Tanaka and Nakamaru dressed as clowns and brought audience members up to the stage, and J.J. Express and other trainee tap danced.
[54] In the second act, Kazuya used a 16.2m x 7.2m vision,[49] the largest in the theater's history, to perform spider flying, running around the wall with his body tilted to the side, suspended in the middle of the screen.
The play featured an arrangement of "Challenger" by Johnny & Associates's star Masahiko Kondo, and songs by KAT-TUN and Kanjani Eight were sung following the performance.
[72] The traditional tightrope walking, trapeze, and flying performances were greatly increased to 20 minutes in the air, and a video projector was introduced.
[73] Taiga Kyomoto Miyuto Morita (daily) Joichiro Fujiwara (alternating) Totsuka Shota,[80] Kawai Ikuto[80] Tsukada Ryouichi[80] Koichi Goseki[80][71] Wataru Yokoo[82] Taisuke Fujigaya[83] Toshiya Miyata[84][85] Kento Senga[84][86] Yuta Tamamori[1] Takashi Nikaido[87] Toshiya Miyata Takashi Nikaido[71] Kento Senga[71] Wataru Yokoo Kota Yamazaki[71] Takahiro Hamada Tomohiro Kamiyama[90] Ryota Senzaki[91] Tatsuya Fukazawa[92] Hikaru Iwamoto[92] Tsubasa Makoto[93] Ryota Miyadate[92] Daisuke Sakuma[92] Shota Watanabe Starring Kazuya Kamenashi.
Shibuya and Togoshi were involved in the musical side of the production, and while the content and chords for "Come Into My World" were decided, audiences were invited to sing freely, so the lyrics were sung differently for each performance.
[12] This name was given by Johnny Kitagawa in reference to recovery efforts of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that occurred in March of the same year.
[12] Kamenashi learned and performed a new flying technique, "Kensho Koshin Mai Kuu Daiten," incorporating bungee jumping, in about 20 days with an invited acrobatic troupe from China.
[121] According to Kondo, Johnny was probably trying to depict "a drama of people risking life and death," and called him several times to persuade him to appear in the show.
The stage returned to the world of boxing and entertainment as before,[131] and its production announcement was held in the ring of Korakuen Hall, "the sacred place of martial arts," with about 1,000 fans.
[133] The roles of the main character was played by Tamamori, Kento Senga as Champ, and Toshiya Miyata as the idol group's producer,[131] but new cast members also appeared in various parts, such as Sho Hirano as Champ's brother who hates his brother and Ren Nagase as the informer who is forced to work for Madam and Rika.
[136] The Tamamori version features Kento Senga and Toshiya Miyata, and the Nakayama version features Fuma Kikuchi and Marius Yo as the main actors, with Tamamori and Nakayama playing a young man who has quit boxing, Senga and Kikuchi as boxing champions, and Miyata and Marius as their friends.
[149] In this production, a new "Dream Boys Suite" consisting of five songs of about seven minutes[150] with themes such as "Family," "Friendship," "Bonds," and "Pledge to the Future", was performed just before the last scene.
[152] However, Tamamori recalls that by actually working on the suite, he was able to feel the "musical-like" quality of expressing emotions through song and dance rather than dialogue.
[192] New songs "Start Shooting," "Fate's Door," and "Fighter" were added,[192] and in the scene where the main character Yuta escapes alone to find out the truth behind the incident, a new technique called "Rikishi," in which he climbs a rope up to 6 meters high using only his own arm strength, was performed by Koichi The performance was accompanied by the new song "DEATH SPIRAL" produced by Koichi.
[200] The main cast was renewed, with Fuma Kikuchi as the lead and Taki Tanaka as the champ,[201] and Koichi Domoto directing,[202] as he did last year.
by Shonen Ninja training at the gym, "hourglass" (Kikuchi) in which Fuma escapes under suspicion and reveals his feelings while reflecting on his past.
[209] A new scene was added in which a younger Fuma and Juri appear riding a bicycle together, with Ryusei Fukada and Yutaka Motoki playing them in a flying performance.
[217] During rehearsals, Koichi, who had been performing flying in "Shock (musical)" for many years, showed them the model and taught them posture, eye contact, etc.
[222] Yuu Motoki, Hideo Yasushima, Sota Uchimura, Ryusei Fukada, Mitsunari Hiyama, Shoma Hiratsuka, Kohei Aoki, Rikuto Toyoda Ryusei Fukuda Mitsunari Hiyama Daiki Konno Yutaka Motoki Katsuki Mototaka Hiromitsu Sasaki Rinne Sugata, Rikuto Toyota Sota Uchimura Rei Yabana Ryusei Fukada Mitsunari Hiyama Daiki Konno Yuu Motoki Katsuki Mototaka, Rinne Sugata, Daiko Sasaki Rikuto Toyoda Sota Uchimura Rei Yabana, Hideo Yasushima[221][211] The 2024 production ran from October 9, 2024 to October 29, 2024[237] as part of the closing lineup of the Imperial Theatre, which will be temporarily closed beginning in February 2025.
[238] As in the previous production, Shota Watanabe plays the lead role, Shintaro Morimoto co-stars, and Koichi Domoto directs.