Takarazuka Revue Moon Troupe 2018 production of the Viennese musical 'Elisabeth'

Joan of Arc, the heroine who saved her homeland of France from the looming evil clutches of England in the Middle Ages. In the end, Joan was burned at the stake without any warning, when she disappeared in a flash of lightening, and strayed into the 21st century. Joan fosters friendships and connections through the people she encounters in this distant time, while rejoicing in this age of freedom. At last this otherworldly, extraordinary character and her words and actions begin to gain her attention from "modern" France....

A dramatic musical written by Shibata Yukihiro, based on the full-length novel by literary master Stendahl. It depicts the attempts of Julien Sorel, a provincial young man, to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy.