No Longer Human is a 2021 musical theatre adaptation of Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai's 1948 best-selling novel No Longer Human, by Grammy-nominated American Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn. [1] Produced by Shanghai-based production company Ranspace, [2] the show features orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg, English lyrics by Tracy Miller and Carly Robyn Green, Chinese lyrics by Ya Wen and Mingzhu Zheng, direction by Ney Hasegawa, [3] music conduction by Yuzhuo Sun, music programming by Siyang Chen, Shaochen Cai and Kailin Huang. [4] It marks Wildhorn's first original Chinese musical. [2]
The show made a world premiere at the Shanghai Grand Theatre in December 2021, [5] followed by a multi-city tour throughout China. [3] The first round of performances had 12 shows, with a total box office of nearly 9 million yuan (close to $1 million) and 15,000 audiences. [6] It was initialy set to tour China again in 2024, [2] but soon announced the second round in 2022, [4] and the third round in 2023 while releasing the original cast recording. [7] It was crowned by critics as the top 1 musical theatre performance of 2021 in China. [6]
The original musical cast stars Chinese pop singer Pax Congo and theatre actor/singer Liam Liu. [1] It is also known as The Human Disqualification in translation. [8]
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2023 | Performing Arts World Musical Awards | Annual Outstanding Musicals | N/A | Won | [9] |
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2023 | Beijing Tianqiao Annual Musical Ceremony | Outstanding Female Musical Performer | Chen, Tian | Won | [10] |
Outstanding Male Musical Performer | Lui, Lingfei | Won | |||
Outstanding Musical Producer | Liang, Yibing | Won | |||
Outstanding Director | Xu, Chongye & Hasegawa, Yasushi | Won | |||
Outstanding Book Writer | Wen, Ya & Zhang, Mingzhu | Won | |||
Outstanding Choreography | Hasegawa, Yasushi | Won |
No Longer Human is a 2021 musical theatre adaptation of Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai's 1948 best-selling novel No Longer Human, by Grammy-nominated American Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn. [1] Produced by Shanghai-based production company Ranspace, [2] the show features orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg, English lyrics by Tracy Miller and Carly Robyn Green, Chinese lyrics by Ya Wen and Mingzhu Zheng, direction by Ney Hasegawa, [3] music conduction by Yuzhuo Sun, music programming by Siyang Chen, Shaochen Cai and Kailin Huang. [4] It marks Wildhorn's first original Chinese musical. [2]
The show made a world premiere at the Shanghai Grand Theatre in December 2021, [5] followed by a multi-city tour throughout China. [3] The first round of performances had 12 shows, with a total box office of nearly 9 million yuan (close to $1 million) and 15,000 audiences. [6] It was initialy set to tour China again in 2024, [2] but soon announced the second round in 2022, [4] and the third round in 2023 while releasing the original cast recording. [7] It was crowned by critics as the top 1 musical theatre performance of 2021 in China. [6]
The original musical cast stars Chinese pop singer Pax Congo and theatre actor/singer Liam Liu. [1] It is also known as The Human Disqualification in translation. [8]
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | Performing Arts World Musical Awards | Annual Outstanding Musicals | N/A | Won | [9] |
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2023 | Beijing Tianqiao Annual Musical Ceremony | Outstanding Female Musical Performer | Chen, Tian | Won | [10] |
Outstanding Male Musical Performer | Lui, Lingfei | Won | |||
Outstanding Musical Producer | Liang, Yibing | Won | |||
Outstanding Director | Xu, Chongye & Hasegawa, Yasushi | Won | |||
Outstanding Book Writer | Wen, Ya & Zhang, Mingzhu | Won | |||
Outstanding Choreography | Hasegawa, Yasushi | Won |