Spirited Away Stage Play's World Tour Unveils Cast
The official website for the stage play of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away anime film announced the cast members for the stage play on Thursday.
Kanna Hashimoto (live-action Gintama, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Kingdom, top row, leftmost in image above), Mone Kamishiraishi (your name., live-action Chihayafuru, LDK, top row center left), and Momoko Fukuchi (live-action Wasteful Days of High School Girl, Radio Star, top row, center right) all return as Chihiro. Hashimoto and Kamishiraishi alternated in the role in the stage play's first run in 2022, and Fukuchi was one of two actresses that also played the character alongside Hashimoto and Kamishiraishi in the stage play's 2024 run. Marina Mori (High School Musical stage musical in Japan, top row, rightmost) will be the understudy for the Chihiro role, as she had been during the play's 2024-25 London run, 2025 Shanghai run, and 2026 Seoul run.
Nagi Inoue (Nogizaka46 member), Hana Toyoshima, and Kokoro Hirasawa (bottom row, left to right) join the cast, though their roles remain unannounced.
The stage play will have a world tour with stops in Toronto, Los Angeles, London, Taipei, and Tokyo. The tour dates are as follows:
- Princess of Wales Theatre - Toronto, Canada: May 6-August 15, 2027
- Ahmanson Theatre - Los Angeles, California: September 2-October 24, 2027
- London Coliseum - London, England: March 2028 onwards
- National Theater - Taipei, Taiwan: December 16, 2026-January 31, 2027
- Tokyo, Japan: March-May 2027
Tony and Olivier Award-winning director and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Honorary Associate Director John Caird (Les Misérables, Nicholas Nickleby, Daddy Long Legs) directs and co-adapts the production with Maoko Imai.
The stage play ran at the London Coliseum theatre from April to August 2024. The London run won the Best New Play award at the 25th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards in London in 2025.
The stage play ran in Japan with two different sets of cast members. The play's first run debuted at the Imperial Theatre from February to March 2022, then went on tour to Osaka in April, Fukuoka in May, Sapporo in June, and Nagoya in June and July for a total of 102 performances.
The stage play returned for its second run in Japan in August 2023 and March 2024.
GKIDS theatrically screened a recorded performance of both versions of the stage play. The version with Hashimoto screened in North America in April 2023, and the version with Kamishiraishi screened in late April and early May in 2023.
Spirited Away was previously the highest-grossing Japanese film worldwide until Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train surpassed the record. Spirited Away remained the only non-English-language title to win the Academy Awards' Best Animated Feature award, which it earned in 2003, until Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's latest film The Boy and the Heron won the award in 2024.
Sources: Spirited Away stage play's official website, Comic Natalie
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