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Anime icon Sailor Moon transforms into a live experience touring the US this Spring

The beloved anime series will be brought to life as a "2.5D musical sensation" for an 18-stop US tour

Published on Wed Jan 15 2025

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Sure, you might think you’re a Sailor Moon fan, but have you ever seen her live on stage? For fans across North America, this Spring offers the opportunity to do so, as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live — something producers describe as a “2.5D musical sensation” based on the beloved manga and anime property — tours the U.S.

The show, performed in Japanese with English subtitles, comes from writer/director Kaori Miura (Tokyo Revengers: The Musical), with music from Go Sakabe and KYOHEI and choreography is by Satomi Toma. Miura describes the show by saying, “At its very basic, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon is about 5 girlfriends banding together to fight for what they believe in… that’s timely,” adding that Sailor Moon and her fellow Guardians are “the ultimate example of ‘girl power.’”

The show originally opened in Tokyo back in 2018, and has been brought around the world in the intervening years, with performances in Paris, Taiwan, and two earlier US engagements in Washington DC and New York back in 2019. A UK production is due to open in London this February.

For its US tour, the production will launch March 12 at Pittsburgh’s Byham Theater, before running through the end of April with a two-night run at New York’s Palladium Times Square; that run includes an official March 15 opening in Austin, Texas as part of the annual SXSW festival. The full tour schedule is as follows:

March 12: Pittsburgh, PA, Byham Theatre
March 15: Austin, TX, Bass Concert Hall
March 18: San Antonio, TX, Majestic Theatre
March 19: Sugarland, TX, Smart Financial Centre
March 25: Seattle, WA, Paramount Theatre
March 27: Spokane, WA, First Interstate Center
March 29: Portland, OR, Keller Auditorium
April 1: Dallas, TX, Winspear Opera House
April 3: Midland, TX, Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center
April 6: Minneapolis, MN, Orpheum Theatre
April 8: St Louis, MO, The Fabulous Fox
April 11: Dayton, OH, Schuster Center
April 13: Louisville, KY, The Kentucky Center
April 15: Chicago, IL, Chicago Theatre
April 16: Milwaukee, WI, Riverside Theatre
April 18: Newark, NJ, NJPAC
April 22: Philadelphia, PA, Miller Theater
April 25-26: New York, NY, Palladium Times Square

More information about the tour can be found on its official website. And if you want more Sailor Moon, we're here to help:

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