There are photos at the following sites:
http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/2004/08/27/103,1093589044,30041,0,0.html
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/games/gsnews/0408/27/news22.html
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20040827/sakura.htm (big,
nice ones here)


SET LIST:

1.  Fukuhime Kigan
2.  Yoru no Samba (w/ Sonooka Shintarou)
3.  Bus wa Yuku Yuku Yume Nosete (w/ Sonooka Shintarou)
4.  Koi no Hassha Ohrai!
5.  Shinjirareru Koto
6.  Hanagumi medley
7.  Watashi no Aozora

The show began with Ai coming out from behind the audience wearing the
silver kimono costume from "Shinhen Hakkenden."  Appropriately, she
sang her solo song from the musical, "Fukuhime Kigan."  She said how
this musical was the first time that she finally got a chance to be in
a play within a play as Kaede, and really enjoyed doing that.

For her second number, Ai went up above the stage to change clothes.
When she came down to the main stage, she was wearing a "cocktail
dress" as Itmedia describes it.  "It's already been eight years!!" she
exclaimed, and to make a point by returning to her starting roots as
Ayame, she sang "Yoru no Samba."  During the song, she mingled with
the audience and did those 'come hither' looks.  :D

Midway through the song, someone from behind the audience yelled,
"Don't call me so suddenly!"  It was none other than Sonooka Shintarou
(Dandy).  ^^;  The two of them wrapped up the song on the substage as
a duet, even putting in a little dance number in it, with a very
definitive "adult" feel to it compared to other Sakura stuff.  ;P

There was a short MC after this talking about the Super Kayou Show
that wrapped up just the other day, "Shin Seiyuuki."  Then Ai went to
change clothes again to perform another song, and told Sonooka-san to
get the bus ready for when she comes back.  Dandy even had a ship in
the OVA but Sonooka had nothing, so he lamely replied, "I don't have
one!" which met a lot of forced laughter, apparently.  ^^;  Then he
took a cardboard drawing of a bus and attached it to the mic stand.
The lame jokes didn't end there, and he picked up... a washing basin?
and said, "It's a basu bucket."  [A pun on the word "bus"/"basu" and
"ofuro"/"basu".]

Luckily, Ai came back out wearing a somewhat retro white dress and
little pillbox-y sort of hat, and the two sang, "Bus wa Yuku Yuku Yume
wo Nosete."  It's been three years since the song initially came out,
so Ai said it was very nostalgic singing that song again.  ^^

After that, Sonooka's turn was over, and Ai performed "Koi no Hassha
Ohrai" and "Shinjirareru Koto."  She even asked the audience to chime
in during the "ohrai" parts for the former.

The second half of the show was primarily taken up by the Hanagumi
medley.  "With the Super Kayou Show in the summer and the New Year's
show in the winter, I'm with the Hanagumi all the time.  We're close
to each other, and it's because we are all aiming for the same goal;
we are wonderful allies to one another.  That is to become better and
better and deliver our performance to the audience," Ai said.  She had
a series of letters to each Hanagumi member seiyuu, and sang a bit of
a song that each character had sung.

1.  Kuchizusamu Uta (Sakura)
2.  Only Man (Maria)
3.  Chi Chin no Pui (Iris)
4.  Metro de Ikou (Kohran)
5.  Chanbara Boogie (Kanna)
6.  Moshimo (Orihime)
7.  Icarus no Hoshi (Reni)
8.  Sumire Chachacha (Sumire)
9.  Kanpan Furafura (Oogami)

To Yokoyama Chisa (Sakura), she said: "The stage of Sakura Taisen is
like the diary of Chisa-chan's, showing her growth.  The hard worker
that you are, you simply wipe away your sweat and continues to climb
higher on the stairway of become a great actress.  It's fun to watch
you grow as an actress.  Thanks for always inviting me to go out and
eat with you."

To Takano Urara (Maria), she said: "You're being called 'Otousan' and
getting more and more boyish, but as a lady, your kindness is
wonderful."  She even mentioned how lately, Urara has been showing off
her muscle to all the seiyuu... ^^;

Though she's been gone for a while, Ai's message to Tomizawa Michie
was: "It's still too vivid for me to put away as a memory... I want to
perform with you on stage again."

And of course, to the shmuck who got to play Oogami, Ai had only one
sentence in her letter: "Shikkari shinasai, Suyama-kun!"  :D  [I still
can't believe she sang "Kanpan Furafura"... hahaha.]

The live ended with "Watashi no Aozora" and Ai telling the crowd, "We
have been able to go one for eight years not just because of the
members, and not just because of Hiroi-san.  It's because of you, the
fans."

-- 
Fr:Sakuya Madoka


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