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Domoto Koichi to Fly with Japanese Umbrella on the Stage!

2010-02-17

KinKi Kids member Domoto Koichi studied a consecutive lesson for the Tokyo Empire Theater 10th anniversary musical "Endless SHOCK".
After the lesson, Koichi revealed his own thoughts on the challenge to the longest performance: "I have gained a lot of weights. My weight now is 57kg, which is 5kg more than I usually am. 52kg is not enough for me, and I hope I can keep the best condition to the end!"

Mr. Kitagawa, the director of Johnny's Jimusho, took participate in the writing and composing of the musical. It is a story about Koichi whose body and soul are separated due to an accident while he is fighting for the unity of the company. In the highlight, which is a flying scene, Koichi will be in gold, holding a Japanese style umbrella in the hand, and flying from 8m high above the stage.

As to the flying scene in which the umbrella will be the lifeline, Koichi said: "My right hand is very strong." and made everyone laughed.

When the flower from the actress Mori Mitsuko was sent in, Koichi commented: "It reminds me that today is Valentine's day. I am always receiving gifts from Ms. Mori and I should give her a gift some time." And about the first performance later, "After considering the schedule of many guests who are going to take a Shinkansen back home, we will contract the performance and end it 20 minutes earlier. It's quite hard." Said Koichi while smiling, "However, I feel very lucky to be on the stage. Thanks to your support, I will do my best to fulfill your expectation."

The musical "Endless SHOCK" will be staged from February 14th to March 30th and July 4th to 31th!
Don't miss out his wonderful performance!

Source: music japan+

We all know what he's been practicing on each day to get such a strong muscular right arm, ne? *wink wink* I can imagine Downtown-san picking on Koichi and his nightly pre-sleep activity all over again xD

Another new flying routine in his butai that will end up worrying all us Kochan fangirls to death.

Hope they're gonna release a DVD of this year's run. My money is waiting to be spent. Pueheh.