A New Duncan Sheik Manga Musical Will Premiere Off-Broadway in the Fall

Kenny Kurokawa, RAYMAN, and executive producer Antonio Marion announced that Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, a new musical with music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award winner Duncan Sheik, will premiere off-Broadway this fall at the new venue the Night Egg at the Culture Club.

Based on the Manga (a type of graphic novel from Japan) of the same name by Moyoco Anno, the musical will be directed and choreographed by Tony, Olivier, and Emmy Award winner Rob Ashford.

Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, the first Manga to be developed into an American musical in the English language, will feature a book by Leah Nanako Winkler and music supervision by Or Matias.

The new venue, located on W 27th Street at the former home of Sleep No More, is named after a reference to the club in the Japanese Manga on which the musical is based.

Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen is about Colette, a witty young dreamer in 20th-century Paris, who finds her power through writing while working at an elusive maison close called Night Egg. Underneath her sharp intelligence and growing independence, Colette has her own perversion she cannot outrun: a lingering, destructive attachment to Léon, her childhood love, whose toxic hold on her continues to blur the line between devotion and self-destruction.

Additional details, including dates and casting, will be announced at a later date.