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* SummonBackupDancers: ''Raffaele's Desires'' and ''Art/{{Primavera}}'' get these. In the latter, they portray figures from Creator/SandroBotticelli's painting of that name.
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* SummonBackupDancers: ''Raffaele's Desires'' "Raffaele's Desires" and ''Art/{{Primavera}}'' "Primavera" get these. In the latter, they portray figures from Creator/SandroBotticelli's painting of that name.
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* SummonBackupDancers: ''Raffaele's Desires'' and ''Art/{{Primavera}}'' get these. In the latter, they portray figures from Creator/SandroBotticelli's painting of those names.that name.
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* SummonBackupDancers: "Raffaele's Desires" and "Primavera" get these. In the latter, they portray figures from Botticelli's painting of that name.
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* SummonBackupDancers: "Raffaele's Desires" ''Raffaele's Desires'' and "Primavera" ''Art/{{Primavera}}'' get these. In the latter, they portray figures from Botticelli's Creator/SandroBotticelli's painting of that name.those names.
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* AdaptationalContextChange: Since the "bullfight" against Henri is less violent and more comedic, Giovanni's comment about shuddering when he thinks of Henri's face plays differentlt -- he's laughing at how stupid Henri looked, not actually feeling horror over his injuries.
* AdaptationDistillation: Scenes from volumes 1-10 of the manga are rearranged and made into a more streamlines story.
* AdaptationDistillation: Scenes from volumes 1-10 of the manga are rearranged and made into a more streamlines story.
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* AdaptationalContextChange: Since the "bullfight" against Henri is less violent and more comedic, Giovanni's comment about shuddering when he thinks of Henri's face plays differentlt differently -- he's laughing at how stupid Henri looked, not actually feeling horror over his injuries.
* AdaptationDistillation: Scenes from volumes 1-10 of the manga are rearranged and made into a morestreamlines streamlined story.
* AdaptationDistillation: Scenes from volumes 1-10 of the manga are rearranged and made into a more
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* BigFinaleCrowdSong: Act 1 ends with one ("Situation on the Peninsula"), but the actual end of the show averts this, finishing with Cesare alone on stage.
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* BigFinaleCrowdSong: Act 1 ends with one ("Situation on the Peninsula"), ("Conflict"), but the actual end of the show averts this, finishing with Cesare alone on stage.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Giovanni has brown hair in the musical, while his hair was blond in the manga. In the official photos, Angelo also had brown hair, but in the actual play, it's blond like in the manga.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Aside from Cesare, Miguel, and Angelo, the manga characters aren't designed to be that pretty, but almost everyone is in the musical. Raffaele and Draghignazzo might be the biggest examples.
* AdaptationalContextChange: Since the "bullfight" against Henri is less violent and more comedic, Giovanni's comment about shuddering when he thinks of Henri's face plays differentlt -- he's laughing at how stupid Henri looked, not actually feeling horror over his injuries.
* AdaptationDistillation: Scenes from volumes 1-10 of the manga are rearranged and made into a more streamlines story.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The Festival scene comes a lot earlier than it did in the manga.
* AdaptedOut: Most of the story covers events before Silencio showed up in the manga. He doesn't appear in the play, and in one scene with him from the manga, where Giovanni shares his feelings after [[spoiler: the death of Draghignazzo]], Silencio's lines are given to Angelo instead.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Aside from Cesare, Miguel, and Angelo, the manga characters aren't designed to be that pretty, but almost everyone is in the musical. Raffaele and Draghignazzo might be the biggest examples.
* AdaptationalContextChange: Since the "bullfight" against Henri is less violent and more comedic, Giovanni's comment about shuddering when he thinks of Henri's face plays differentlt -- he's laughing at how stupid Henri looked, not actually feeling horror over his injuries.
* AdaptationDistillation: Scenes from volumes 1-10 of the manga are rearranged and made into a more streamlines story.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The Festival scene comes a lot earlier than it did in the manga.
* AdaptedOut: Most of the story covers events before Silencio showed up in the manga. He doesn't appear in the play, and in one scene with him from the manga, where Giovanni shares his feelings after [[spoiler: the death of Draghignazzo]], Silencio's lines are given to Angelo instead.
* CompressedAdaptation: The mystery is solved almost as soon as it happens, over a matter of days, as opposed to the manga, where entire volumes pass between the incident and the solution.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the manga, [[spoiler: Draghignazzo runs away after he gets caught, falls off a roof, and dies alone with Miguel]]. In the musical, Cesare and Angelo are also present, and hear their dialogue.
* PacifiedAdaptation: There are a few scenes in the manga that end with someone trying to kill Cesare, that don't have that aspect in the musical.
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* WelcomingSong: "Gakuseidan", where Roberto explains the school groups to Angelo.
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* WelcomingSong: "Gakuseidan", where Roberto explains the school groups to Angelo.Angelo.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Manga Cesare is tall and generically handsome. Akinori Nakagawa is shorter and a lot more expressive than Cesare is in the manga. Somehow, despite being 40, his Cesare is a lot more believable as 16.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Manga Cesare is tall and generically handsome. Akinori Nakagawa is shorter and a lot more expressive than Cesare is in the manga. Somehow, despite being 40, his Cesare is a lot more believable as 16.
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* DuetOfDifferences: Between future popes!
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* MoodWhiplash: When Giuliano della Rovere sings a somber verse about the state of Italy, and how the peninsula is a rotting fruit on the verge of collapse... followed by Rodrigo entering, taking his song and turning it around, singing an upbeat verse about how Spain is flourishing despite Italy's troubles.
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[[https://youtu.be/pL6jG1A7M40 An official preview video]] has been posted.
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The musical is composed by Ken Shima, and the original cast starred Akinori Nakagawa as Cesare
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Cesare. At the final performance on 2/05/2023, a bluray release was announced.
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* BreakTheCutie: Raffaele was traumatized by the Pazzi conspiracy, in which a ceremony in his honor was used as a venue for an assassination. He was only 17 and knew nothing about it. He wants to apologize to Lorenzo for his involvement.
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* GenerationXerox: Cesare claims to hate his father, but their mannerisms and body language are so similar. The second act opens with Rodrigo in a pose curiously similar to Cesare's at the very end.
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* GradeSchoolCEO: TruthInTelevision, as Cesare and Giovanni did both hold bishoprics before they were 10.
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* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Giovanni, most of the time, but Cesare shows shades of this in the festival scene. He borrows Angelo's clothes to blend in with the commoners, but then does things like correcting the crowd's history, and flashing coins more valuable than anything most people there would have seen in their lives.
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* {{Bookends}}: Act 2 opens with Rodrigo in silhouette standing at the top of the stairs, facing the back of the stage, and ends with Cesare in the same pose.
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''Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto'' (Japanese: チェーザレ 破壊の創造者, Hepburn: Chēzare Hakai no Sōzō-sha, lit. "Cesare, the Creator who Destroyed") is a musical based on the [[Manga/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto manga series]] by Souryo Fuyumi. It premiered in 2023 (after 2020 performances were cancelled due to Covid-19) at Meijiza, a famous theatre in Tokyo, opening the theatre's 150th anniversary season.
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''Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto'' (Japanese: チェーザレ 破壊の創造者, Hepburn: Chēzare ''Chēzare Hakai no Sōzō-sha, Sōzō-sha'', lit. "Cesare, the Creator who Destroyed") is a musical based on the [[Manga/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto manga series]] by Souryo Fuyumi. It premiered in 2023 (after 2020 performances were cancelled due to Covid-19) at Meijiza, a famous theatre in Tokyo, opening the theatre's 150th anniversary season.
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* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: Draghignazzo, with Miguel]] holding him.
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* SayMyName: Giovanni after Henri knocks over the statue of the Virgin Mary, breaking it into pieces.
--> '''Giovanni:''' "MARIA! HENRI! CE...Sa... re..." ''*faints*''
--> '''Giovanni:''' "MARIA! HENRI! CE...Sa... re..." ''*faints*''
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* AHeroIsBorn: The introduction features this.
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* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Roberto, after Draghignazzo stabs him.]] he gets up and tries to stab [[spoiler: Cesare]].
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* ScholarshipStudent: Angelo, supported by Lorenzo de'Medici.
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* TheseHandsHaveKilled: [[spoiler: Draghignazzo]] after he stabs [[spoiler: Roberto.]] The latter also said that it was his first time killing someone.
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* AbsurdlyDividedSchool: The students are divided into gakuseidan based on what country they come from. Angelo crosses these borders by becoming friends with Cesare, which piques Cesare's interest.
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* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: In gorgeous costumes.
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* DeathlyDiesIrae: In the song that Cesare and the students sing about Dante.
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* GainingConfidenceSong: Giovanni's graduation, under Cesare's devil's-advocate encouragement.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Bringing the beauty of the Renaissance to life.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Why [[spoiler: Draghignazzo]] kills [[spoiler: Roberto]] -- he's shocked to find a traitor in their midst he says, but he's really trying to cover up his own involvement.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Bringing the beauty of the Renaissance to life.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Why [[spoiler: Draghignazzo]] kills [[spoiler: Roberto]] -- he's shocked to find a traitor in their midst he says, but he's really trying to cover up his own involvement.
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* IrrelevantActOpener: Act 2 begins with Rodrigo singing about how wonderful and cool Spain is.
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* LectureAsExposition: How Cesare's influence from Dante is introduced.
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* MrExposition: Roberto provides this, to Angelo because he's new.
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* DistressedDude: Angelo gets saved by Cesare several times in this play before finally returning the favor.
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* PoisonRing: [[spoiler: Draghignazzo]] takes this way out before Cesare can further torture him.
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* {{Fingore}}: Cesare cuts the traitor's hand rather dramatically with his own dagger, causing him to cry out in pain.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Cesare starts to do this when they catch the culprit, but the traitor drinks poison from his ring before it can go much further.
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* BluffingTheMurderer: Cesare does this to [[spoiler: Draghignazzo]] by telling Angelo so say he saw his face on the night of the incident.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Justified, since everything most people know about the Borgias is HistoricalVillainUpgrade.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Whatever is known about the historical Cesare Borgia's attitudes, he likely didn't go around giving speeches about tolerance, and correcting people's stories about the Crusades to say that the Europeans were the ones who were cruel, the way that he does here.
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* LovedByAll: "Gakuseidan" ends with Cesare getting this kind of treatment from the people in the square (and, implicitly, the rest of the university), showing that he's already enough of a chessmaster to know that buying everyone wine is a good way to bring this about. It's also a good way to make it really, really hard for Henri, TheBully of the French squad, to pick a fight with Spain or Florence.
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''Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto'' (Japanese: チェーザレ 破壊の創造者, Hepburn: Chēzare Hakai no Sōzō-sha, lit. "Cesare, the Creator who Destroyed") is a musical based on the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto [[Manga/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto manga series]] by Souryo Fuyumi. It premiered in 2023 (after 2020 performances were cancelled due to Covid-19) at Meijiza, a famous theatre in Tokyo, opening the theatre's 150th anniversary season.
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* OffstageVillainy: Cesare's first words in the play are "My father is a monster", however, we don't get to see Rodrigo do anything particularly monstrous in the play, besides his EvilLaugh in the prologue as he imagines his son growing up to be a powerful conqueror.
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* OffstageVillainy: Cesare's first words in the play are "My father is a monster", however, we don't get to see Rodrigo do anything particularly monstrous in the play, besides his EvilLaugh in the prologue as he imagines his son growing up to be a powerful conqueror.conqueror.
* SettingIntroductionSong: "Gakuseidan" -- Roberto introduces the school to Angelo.
* SongOfPrayer: "Prayer" -- the older cardinals, and Cesare, sing this (in Latin) after the dramatic events unfold. Della Rovere continues with "Scene Inside My Memory".
* SummonBackupDancers: "Raffaele's Desires" and "Primavera" get these. In the latter, they portray figures from Botticelli's painting of that name.
* TenorBoy: One might not expect Cesare Borgia to sing such lovely high notes, but here, at least, he does.
* WelcomingSong: "Gakuseidan", where Roberto explains the school groups to Angelo.
* SettingIntroductionSong: "Gakuseidan" -- Roberto introduces the school to Angelo.
* SongOfPrayer: "Prayer" -- the older cardinals, and Cesare, sing this (in Latin) after the dramatic events unfold. Della Rovere continues with "Scene Inside My Memory".
* SummonBackupDancers: "Raffaele's Desires" and "Primavera" get these. In the latter, they portray figures from Botticelli's painting of that name.
* TenorBoy: One might not expect Cesare Borgia to sing such lovely high notes, but here, at least, he does.
* WelcomingSong: "Gakuseidan", where Roberto explains the school groups to Angelo.
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* BigFinaleCrowdSong: Act 1 ends with one ("Situation on the Peninsula"), but the actual end of the show averts this, finishing with Cesare alone on stage.
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* DistantDuet: "Cesare & Angelo" -- they sing about their first impressions of each other.
* EducationalSong: You will learn a lot about history from this play. A few songs feature characters talking about the famous art and literature of the time.
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* IWantSong: "Cesare" - He wants to reform the church. "Dante's Vision" also counts as Cesare's "I Want" song -- it's sung by Dante, but it's really in Cesare's mind.
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''Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto'' (Japanese: チェーザレ 破壊の創造者, Hepburn: Chēzare Hakai no Sōzō-sha, lit. "Cesare, the Creator who Destroyed") is a musical based on the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto manga series series]] by Souryo Fuyumi. It premiered in 2023 (after 2020 performances were cancelled due to Covid-19) at Meijiza, a famous theatre in Tokyo, opening the theatre's 150th anniversary season.
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* CorruptChurch: Case in point, a good number of these 16-year-old schoolboys are bishops. Cesare wants to reform it.
* DecadentCourt: From the perspective of their sons in school.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Quite a few characters get this treatment, which is particularly notable since the manga did not do this. Giovanni might be the most obvious example.
* DecadentCourt: From the perspective of their sons in school.
* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Quite a few characters get this treatment, which is particularly notable since the manga did not do this. Giovanni might be the most obvious example.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The original cast, featuring Squadra Verde and Squadra Rossa]]
''Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto'' (Japanese: チェーザレ 破壊の創造者, Hepburn: Chēzare Hakai no Sōzō-sha, lit. "Cesare, the Creator who Destroyed") is a musical based on the manga series by Souryo Fuyumi. It premiered in 2023 (after 2020 performances were cancelled due to Covid-19) at Meijiza, a famous theatre in Tokyo, opening the theatre's 150th anniversary season.
Angelo Da Canossa, a young student from Florence, arrives at the prestigious Sapienza university in Pisa. Suddenly surrounded by boys from the greatest families in Italy, the young man is particularly drawn to Cesare Borgia, the brilliant natural son of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia. The era is particularly tense for Italy. Old alliances are crumbling, the Pope is on his deathbed, and Cesare is about to bring Angelo into this world of sharks...
The musical is composed by Ken Shima, and stars Akinori Nakagawa as Cesare
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* OffstageVillainy: Cesare's first words in the play are "My father is a monster", however, we don't get to see Rodrigo do anything particularly monstrous in the play, besides his EvilLaugh in the prologue as he imagines his son growing up to be a powerful conqueror.
[[caption-width-right:350:The original cast, featuring Squadra Verde and Squadra Rossa]]
''Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto'' (Japanese: チェーザレ 破壊の創造者, Hepburn: Chēzare Hakai no Sōzō-sha, lit. "Cesare, the Creator who Destroyed") is a musical based on the manga series by Souryo Fuyumi. It premiered in 2023 (after 2020 performances were cancelled due to Covid-19) at Meijiza, a famous theatre in Tokyo, opening the theatre's 150th anniversary season.
Angelo Da Canossa, a young student from Florence, arrives at the prestigious Sapienza university in Pisa. Suddenly surrounded by boys from the greatest families in Italy, the young man is particularly drawn to Cesare Borgia, the brilliant natural son of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia. The era is particularly tense for Italy. Old alliances are crumbling, the Pope is on his deathbed, and Cesare is about to bring Angelo into this world of sharks...
The musical is composed by Ken Shima, and stars Akinori Nakagawa as Cesare
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!Tropes Appearing in the Musical:
* OffstageVillainy: Cesare's first words in the play are "My father is a monster", however, we don't get to see Rodrigo do anything particularly monstrous in the play, besides his EvilLaugh in the prologue as he imagines his son growing up to be a powerful conqueror.
