{"id":41602,"date":"2017-07-14T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=41602"},"modified":"2017-07-14T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:52:16","slug":"justins-japan-ryoko-yonekura-returns-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/14\/justins-japan-ryoko-yonekura-returns-to-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: Ryoko Yonekura Returns to \u2018Chicago\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>JQ\u00a0<\/em>magazine<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>editor<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Justin Tedaldi<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(CIR<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Shukan NY Seikatsu<\/a><\/strong>. Justin has written about Japanese arts and entertainment for JETAA since 2005. For more of his articles,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This month, \u201cChicago,\u201d the longest-running American Broadway musical in history, features Japanese superstar actress Ryoko Yonekura in the role of Roxie Hart for 11 performances from July 3-13 at the\u00a0Ambassador Theatre.<\/p>\n

Yonekura originated the role of Hart in the Japanese-language production of\u00a0\u201cChicago<\/em>\u201d\u00a0in 2008 and played it again in 2010. She then learned the role in English and made her Broadway debut in 2012. Following her return to Broadway this year, Yonekura will join the\u00a0\u201cChicago<\/em>\u201d\u00a0U.S. national touring company in Tokyo August 2-13 at the Tokyu Theater Orb.<\/p>\n

An actress who has enjoyed a steady career in film and television in Japan since the year 2000, Yonekura is best known from the TV Asahi series \u201cDoctor X.\u201d Recently, she appeared for an intimate discussion and meet and greet at Asia Society on June 27.<\/p>\n

“Ryoko Yonekura is an amazing bridge\u00a0builder between the U.S. and Japan. In 2012, she became the first Japanese person in the history of Broadway to play a major character as an American.\u00a0We are really excited to have Ryoko back\u00a0in New York,” said Josette Sheeran, president and CEO of Asia Society.<\/p>\n

Featuring classic tunes by John Kander and Fred Ebb,\u00a0\u201cChicago\u201d<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of Roxie Hart, a Jazz age nightclub dancer who murders her lover after an argument, and the media sensationalism that follows. Originally produced for Broadway in 1975 and revived in 1996, the show won six Tony Awards the following year, and the 2002 film adaptation starring Rene\u00e8 Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. For tickets, visit\u00a0www.chicagothemusical.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for\u00a0Shukan NY Seikatsu. Justin has written about Japanese arts and entertainment for JETAA since 2005. For more of his articles,\u00a0click here. This month, \u201cChicago,\u201d the longest-running American Broadway musical in history, features Japanese superstar actress Ryoko Yonekura in the role of Roxie Hart for 11 performances from July 3-13 at the\u00a0Ambassador Theatre. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,53,340,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-events","category-justins-japan","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-aP0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41607,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41602\/revisions\/41607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}