Nogizaka46 Version Musical - Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon

乃木坂46版 ミュージカル「美少女戦士セーラームーン」 (Nogizaka46 Ban Myuujikaru "Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon", Nogizaka46 Version Musical "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon") is a Sailor Moon musical featuring members of the idol group, Nogizaka46. It is the first musical made by Nogizaka46 and the 35th musical overall.

Information
The show was split into two groups of performers for the main cast (Sailor Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus): Team STAR and Team MOON. The first run of performances was from June 8–24, 2018 at the Tennozu Ginga Theater in Tokyo, Japan. The second set of performances was held from September 21–30, 2018 at the TBS Akasaka ACT Theater in Tokyo, Japan. The final day performances of Team STAR and Team MOON have been broadcasted on TBS Channel 2 in Japan as well as a live stream at various movie theaters in Japan.

Summary
Usagi, a normal middle school girl, has a strange dream where she sees a man calling for "Serenity". As she wakes up, she realizes that she is late for school. In her hurry, she runs into a cat with a crescent moon bald spot. Later, Usagi is punished for being late by her school teacher where she is comforted by her friends, Naru and Umino. Once she is home from school, the crescent moon bald spotted cat appears again in her room. It turns out the cat can talk, and her name is Luna. Luna gives Usagi a brooch and upon realizing her friends are in trouble, Usagi becomes the Pretty Guardian who fights for Love and for Justice, Sailor Moon!

She is able to save her friends but now she must find the rest of the Sailor Guardians to help against the fight against the Dark Kingdom as they gather energy and search for the mysterious Legendary Silver Crystal. Meanwhile, a man calling himself Tuxedo Mask helps Sailor Moon but seems to have motives of his own. Who is he and what is his relation to the Silver Crystal? Usagi must find that out along with the Silver Crystal all while discovering her destiny and saving the world from a destructive evil from the past!

Staff

 * Original: Naoko Takeuchi (published by Kodansha)
 * Production: Wally Kinoshita
 * Screenplay: Tamio (Eureika department store)
 * Music: Shunsuke Wada
 * Lyrics: Etsuko Shingiri
 * Choreography: AOI MATSUO
 * Sword fighting: Masanori Tomita
 * Art: Takahiro Shibata
 * Acoustic: Koichi Yamamoto (ESC Alliance)
 * Acoustic effect: Aoki Takuhei (Stage Office)
 * Illumination: Yoshiyuki Yoshie
 * Picture: Tomichi Kenjin
 * Costume: Seyshowo
 * Hair & Makeup: Reiko Kobayashi
 * Props: Yoji Hayashiya
 * Doll Modeling: Chihiro Takahashi (Puppet Theater Company Hitomi)
 * Singing Guidance: Akira Casanova
 * Practice Piano: Masato Sugita
 * Directing Assistant: Rie Fujiwara
 * Stage Director: Mitsunobu Nagashima
 * Technical Director: Yoshiyuki Hori (DDR)
 * Advertising Art: Shinjiro Eguchi
 * Advertisement Photo: Yusuke Miyake

Cast

 * Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon / Princess Serenity: Mizuki Yamashita / Sayuri Inoue
 * Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury: Riria Itou / Miria Watanabe
 * Rei Hino / Sailor Mars: Kazumi Takayama / Ranze Terada
 * Makoto Kino / Sailor Jupiter: Ami Noujo / Minami Umezawa
 * Minako Aino / Sailor Venus: Hina Higuchi / Kana Nakada
 * Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask / Prince Endymion: Mikako Ishii
 * Queen Serenity: Mai Shiraishi
 * [./https://sailormoon.fandom.com/wiki/Luna_(Sera_Myu) Luna] (puppet operators): Misato Matsumoto (Team Star) and Hiroko Wakasa (Team Moon)

Dark Kingdom

 * Queen Beryl: Nami Tamaki
 * Kunzite: Chihiro Ando
 * Zoisite: Sari Kojima
 * Nephrite: Shin
 * Jadeite: Rina Takeda

Other

 * Naru Osaka: Yuka Yamauchi
 * Gurio Umino: Marina Tanoue
 * Ensemble: Mayuko Kawamoto, Mayu Kaburagi, Kumiko Saito, Ayuka Kurachi, Minami Watanabe, Mami Mitsuoka

Musical Numbers

 * Falling Dream
 * Good Morning 8:00 News
 * Make Up! Suite ~ Moon ~
 * We are the Dark Kingdom
 * Crystal Seminar RAP
 * Make Up! Suite ~Mercury~
 * Make Up! Suite ~Mars~
 * Falling Dream Reprise 1
 * Memory of Darkness
 * Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory
 * Make Up! Suite ~Jupiter~
 * Falling Dream Reprise 2
 * Make Up! Suite ~Venus~
 * Five of Fate, Sailor Destiny
 * Darkness
 * To The Moon
 * Memory - The End of This Love
 * Darkness Reprise
 * Memory - Memory of Love
 * To You of Fate
 * Falling Dream Reprise 3
 * Good Morning 8:00 News Reprise

Service Numbers

 * Sailor Guardians Arrival
 * Make Up! Suite Medley
 * La Soldier
 * FIRE (not featured in the broadcast)
 * Solar Miracle, Make Up
 * To You of Fate Reprise
 * Moonlight Legend

Trivia

 * This show features the first time Luna has appeared in puppet form in a musical. In the 2019 version, the puppet for Luna was upgraded to have blinking eyes and her eye color changed from red to blue.
 * This is the first musical with Naru Osaka and Gurio Umino as characters.
 * This show features the return of Mikako Ishii, who previously played Sailor Pluto in Petite Étrangère, Un Nouveau Voyage, Amour Eternal and Le Mouvement Final, as Tuxedo Mask and Chihiro Ando, previously Tiger's Eye in Amour Eternal, as Kunzite.
 * During the June performance, La Soldier and Fire were performed during the encore. In September's performance, Fire was switched with Solar Miracle, Make Up. This is the first time songs from the Bandai produced Musicals have been performed since the musicals, produced by Nelke Planning, began in 2013. In the 2019 version, Ai no Starshine from the Nelke musicals was performed instead.