Knights' Tale
In Symphonic Concert
10th August 2020
Geigeki Theatre, Tokyo
This was a concert presentation of the musical Knights’ Tale performed over ten days in August 2020, at Geigeki Concert Hall and Opera City. It was mounted during the Covid crisis, when proper stage performances were banned in Japan and indeed all around the world.
These concerts managed to keep public awareness of the show alive while we planned for a full revival of the show in the autumn 2021.
The concert had to be carefully formatted in order to be Covid-aware, with spaces between all the audience seats, solo performers segregated from one another in perspex partitions, and a warning to the audieence not to laugh or cheer!
It was nonetheless a resounding success, a triumph in adversity.
Knights' Tale
| Book by | John Caird |
| Music & Lyrics by | Paul Gordon |
| Japanese Book and Lyrics by | Maoko Imai |
| Musical Supervision, Orchestrations and Arrangements by | Brad Haak |
| Based on | |
| Teseida | by Giovanni Boccaccio |
| The Knights' Tale | by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Two Noble Kinsmen | by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare |
Music
| Vocal Supervisor | 山口琇也 |
| Japanese Music Arrangement | 佐藤三昭 |
| Conductor | Yuji Wakabayashi |
| Orchestra | Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Concertmaster | 依田真宣 |
Cast
| The performance was played on an open stage with perspex cubicles for the soloists, who had to remain distanced from one another at all times. The choir sat in a gallery above the orchestra. | |
| Arcite | Koichi Domoto |
| Palamon | Yoshio Inoue |
| Emilia | Kei Otozuki |
| Jailor's Daughter | Mone Kamishiraishi |
| Theseus | Yuji Kishi |
| Hippolyta | Kaho Shinada |
| Creon/Gerald | Kenya Osumi |
| Queen 1 | Ririko Nanase |
| Queen 2 | Ikuyo Aoyama |
| Queen 3 | Motoko Orii |
| Female Choir | Takai Mizuno, Sayaka Kobayashi, Aki Tomita, Azusa Hara |
| Male Choir | Noriyuki Konishi, Kyohei Kanda, Tatsuya Ueki, Daisuke Kawashima, Toshiki Hirose, Yoshihisa Higuchi, Hayata Furukawa |
| Forest Musicians | |
| Wadaiko (Japanese drum) | Tetsuro Naito |
| Shamisen | Reika Matsuhashi |
| Shinobue (Japanese flute) | Tomoko Takeda |
| Shakuhachi (Japanese flute) | Akihito Obama |
| Drums | Yasuo Tan |
| Guitar | Noboru Yoshioka |
| Bass | Ryosui Ozasa |
| Keyboard | Kosuke Kaneko |
| Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra | Conducted by Yuji Wakabayashi |
Production Staff
| Director | John Caird |
| Set Designer | 中根聪子 |
| Lighting Designer | 中川隆一 |
| Sound Designer | 本間俊哉 |
| Video Designer | 栗山聡之 |
| Assistant Director | 齋藤安彦 |
| Orchestra | 岩崎井織 / 大谷絵梨奈 / 大田淳志 / 森岡孝夫 / 千葉 健 / 松倉信弥 / 糠信 巖 |
| Copyist | Andy Collopy |
| Keyboard Programmer | 古賀敬一郎 |
| Rehearsal Pianist | 問野亮子 |
| Associate Sound Designer | 秋山斎裕 |
| Production Manager | 上田光成 / 北條孝演 |
| Assistant Stage Manager | 北林勇人 / 福田雅 / 大黒靖彰 / 馬淵だいき / 武藤陽子 |
| Interpreters | 今井麻緒子 / 内藤章子 |
| Assistant Producer | 村上奈実 |
| Producer | 齋藤安彦 / 塚田淳一 |
| Props made by | 打越 裕/ 秋山真梨子（東宝舞台） |
| Lighting Operators | 齋藤拓人 / 林美保 / 横田幸子 / 吉田博美 / 大竹真由美 |
| Sound Operators | 増原健市 / 坂野剛 / 澤真也子 / 坂元 啓 / 松田明里 |
| Video Operators | 榎本幹雄 / 山田高志 / 邱 暁蕾 / 森 隆太 / 榎本吉雄 / 大八木滋 / 山田大介 / 岩田茂樹 |
| Instruments provided by | 岸 拓央（三響社） |
| Wadaiko provided by | 浅野太鼓 |
| Transportation | 加藤運輸 |
| Rehearsal locations | 新宿村スタジオ / 東京芸術劇場リハーサルルーム / 東京オペラシティリハーサルルーム |
Programme Staff
| Directed by | Reiko Konishi |
| Designed by | Shigeru Komai (ye11ow graphic studio japan) |
| Photographers | Junji Ishiguro / Shunpei Tauchi (TOHO MARKETING Co.,Ltd.) |
| Writer | Kanae Uda |
| Editor | Ryoko Takahashi |
| Printed by | Seio Printing Co., Ltd |