Moriarty the Patriot musical is returning this spring with a new show, A Scandal in British Empire Reprise, that will be performed in Tokyo and Kyoto from May to June 2025. The schedule is as follows:
- Tokyo: May 15-18, 2025
- Kyoto: May 23-25, 2025
- Tokyo: May 30 – June 8, 2025
Moriarty The Patriot: A Scandal in British Empire Reprise is a new version of the original A Scandal in British Empire play which debuted in 2020. The first musical in the series premiered in 2019 and was followed by A Scandal in British Empire (2020), The Phantom of Whitechapel (2021), and The Two Criminals (2023). Each of the stage plays had a similar showing period a two-month course.
Shogo Suzuki (William James Moriarty) and Ryo Hirano (Sherlock Holmes) are reprising their roles. In addition to the main duo, the cast also includes:
- Shinichi Hashimoto as John H. Watson
- Ami Nojo as Miss Hudson
- Tomoki Hirose as Albert James Moriarty
- Hiroki Hyakuna as Louis James Moriarty
- Junichi Ito as Mycroft Holmes
- Sho Ayanagi as Irene Adler
- Takashi Sasaki as Sebastian Moran
- Kazan Yokoyama as Fred Porlock
The musicals are adapting the Moriarty the Patriot manga by Ryosuke Takeuchi and Hikaru Miyoshi, serialized in the Jump SQ. magazine. In turn, the manga adapts Yosuke Saita’s novels of the same name.
The manga received an anime adaptation by Production I.G in Fall 2020. It ran for 11 episodes and got a 13-episode sequel in 2021. Two-episode OVA followed in 2022.
Source: Official Website, Comic Natalie
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