Draft:Playzone


Playzone (プレイゾーン) was an annual musical produced by Japanese entertainment company Johnny & Associates from 1986 to 2008. It was lead by idol group Shonentai under the supervision of former company president Johnny Kitagawa.

Playzone
Original titleプレイゾーン
CharactersShonentai
Date premieredJuly 5th, 1986
Original languageJapanese
GenreScience Fiction, Romance, Comedy

During the summer of 1986 Shonentai would perform Playzone Mystery for the first time at Aoyama Theatre, since then they began to perform their original Playzone musicals every summer.

This would continue uninterrupted for 23 years up until August 31st, 2008, when Shonentai took part on their last PLAYZONE performance ever. On the years to come, younger generations of Johnny & Associates acts would inherit the musical's legacy.

Shonentai performed Playzone a total of 957 times, attracting an estimated 1.38 million viewers.[1] Since Shonentai's retirement in 2009, and up until Playzone's end in 2015, the musical was performed an additional 275 times, and the number of attendees reached an approximated 1.7 million, in a total 1.232 performances in 30 years of annual, uninterrupted, production. [2]

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20080803142317/http:/daily.co.jp/gossip/johnnys_topics/2008/07/07/0001210585.shtml
  2. ^ "翼歴代ジャニーズ彩った!プレゾン千秋楽 - 芸能ニュース".