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Sophia Anne Caruso To Star In Duncan Sheik’s ‘Memoirs Of Amorous Gentlemen’ Stage Musical Adaptation
Sophia Anne Caruso will lead a new Off-Broadway musical adaptation of Moyoco Anno’s manga Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen. The production is notable as the first manga to be developed into an English-language American musical, and will reunite prominent theatre talent including composer Duncan Sheik and director-choreographer Rob Ashford.
Previews begin on 25 September at The Night Egg at the Culture Club, a new Chelsea venue in the former Sleep No More site, with opening night on 15 October and a run until 3 January 2027. Caruso plays Colette, a young writer in 20th-century Paris whose work at the Night Egg brothel helps her turn clients’ stories into art while confronting a damaging attachment to her childhood love, Léon; the creative team also includes Scott Pask, Catherine Zuber, Brian Tovar, Cody Spencer and Tom Watson.
In short
- Sophia Anne Caruso will star in a new Duncan Sheik musical.
- It is the first English-language American musical adapted from manga.
- The Off-Broadway run begins in September 2026.
Explained simply
Moyoco Anno’s Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen is a Japanese manga, a form of illustrated storytelling published in episodes or volumes. Its central character, Colette, is a young writer in 20th-century Paris who works at a brothel called the Night Egg and draws on the stories she hears there.
Sophia Anne Caruso is an American actor known for stage and screen roles, while Duncan Sheik is a composer and songwriter whose theatre work includes the musical Spring Awakening. The adaptation brings together American theatre artists to tell Anno’s story as an English-language musical.
The project is notable for bringing a manga to the American musical stage, linking a Japanese comic work with a live theatre form. It also centres on Colette’s efforts to make art and her difficult attachment to Léon, her childhood love.
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