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Repray Tour
Official logo of the Repray Tour
Ice show typeTouring solo show
FormatOn-screen narration with live figure skating performances
ThemeGaming, virtual and real life
Duration120 min
Start dateNovember 4, 2023
End dateApril 9, 2024
No. of shows8
CountryJapan
Venue
Attendance64,600
Cinema live viewing
  • Japan
  • Hong Kong
  • South Korea
  • Taiwan
StreamingBeyond Live
BroadcastCS TV Asahi
ProducerYuzuru Hanyu (performer)
DirectorMikiko
Organizer
Sponsor
Websiterepray-icestory.jp
Yuzuru Hanyu article series
Skating career
Other works
Solo ice shows
Ensemble ice shows

The Repray Tour (full title stylized as 'Yuzuru Hanyu ICE STORY 2nd →RE_PRAY← TOUR') was a solo ice show tour by Japanese figure skater and two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu, organized in partnership with TV Asahi and CIC Co., Ltd. The tour initially consisted of three stops across Japan from November 2023 to February 2024 at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Saga Arena [ja] in Saga, and Pia Arena MM in Yokohama. Upon the commercial success of the first three stops, it was decided to add another two shows at Sekisui Heim Super Arena in Rifu, held in April 2024.

The Repray Tour is the first solo ice show tour in the sport of figure skating,[note 1] produced and directed by Yuzuru Hanyu in collaboration with choreographer Mikiko. It is part of the Yuzuru Hanyu Ice Story series and a sequel to Hanyu's solo show Gift at Tokyo Dome in 2023. Each show of the Repray Tour had a duration of 120 minutes and featured 12 different skating programs embedded into a story revolving around video games and the contrasts of virtual and real life.

The tour was sold out with a total attendance of 64,600 spectators. Four days of the tour were screened live at cinemas in Japan and overseas and aired live on the subscription channel CS TV Asahi. A documentary of the show was broadcast on TV Asahi's terrestrial channel on January 7, 2024. The tour was sponsored by Tōwa Pharmaceutical and Phiten, with the first three tour stops receiving additional sponsorship by Kosé's skin care brand Sekkisei.

Background

See also: Yuzuru Hanyu Ice Story

Yuzuru Hanyu is a Japanese figure skater and ice show producer who competed in the men's singles discipline and turned professional in 2022.[2][3] Regarded as one of the greatest skaters in the sport's history, he is the first two-time Olympic men's champion in 66 years with back-to-back gold medals at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics,[2] and the first male single skater to complete the Super Slam, having won all major international senior and junior titles in the course of his career.[4] On March 11, 2011, Hanyu experienced the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in his hometown of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, which fundamentally shaped his life and career.[5] It was the most powerful earthquake recorded in Japan, which cost more than 19,000 people's lives.[6]

Hanyu's first major work as a professional skater is the ongoing Yuzuru Hanyu Ice Story, a series of solo ice shows produced and directed by himself in collaboration with renowned Japanese choreographer Mikiko.[7] The series was launched in November 2022 with Prologue, the first solo ice show production in the sport of figure skating, held in Yokohama and Hachinohe with five performances in total.[8] The first main chapter of the Ice Story, titled Gift, was presented on February 26, 2023, at Tokyo Dome in front of a record ice show audience of 35,000 spectators.[7] Both productions focused on Hanyu's transition from competitive to professional skating, telling the story of his life and future on ice.[8][9] Following the universal acclaim and commercial success of Prologue and Gift, Hanyu announced on September 1, 2023, the continuation of the series with the Repray Tour, the first solo tour production in figure skating.[10][note 1] The tour was organized in partnership with TV Asahi and CIC Co., Ltd.[11][12]

Venues

Repray Tour is located in Japan
Saitama
Saitama
Saga
Saga
Yokohama
Yokohama
Rifu
Rifu
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Locations of the Repray Tour

The Repray Tour was initially scheduled with three tour stops across Japan between November 2023 and February 2024. The first show was set for November 4 and 5 at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama City,[11][13] one of the most prestigious venues in competitive figure skating, having hosted three World Championships in 2014, 2019, and 2023 among others.[14] For Hanyu, the venue was of particular importance, having won his first World title there in 2014 as well as two national titles at the 2013–14 and 2021–22 Japan Championships.[15] The second stop was scheduled for January 12 and 14, 2024, at the newly built Saga Arena [ja] in Saga City on the Japanese island Kyushu, which opened on May 13, 2023. The initial tour concluded with a stop at Pia Arena MM in Yokohama on February 17 and 19, where Hanyu's first solo show Prologue was held in November 2022.[11][16]

Upon the commercial success of the first three tour stops, the addition of another two shows was announced on March 6, 2024.[17] The shows were scheduled for April 7 and 9 at Sekisui Heim Super Arena in Rifu near Hanyu's hometown of Sendai.[18] The venue served as a morgue after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and is home to the disaster's annual commemoration event Yuzuru Hanyu Notte Stellata, which was inaugurated in 2023.[5][19]

Chronological list of venues of the Repray Tour [11]
Venue Location Seat. capacity Max. capacity Image Ref.
Saitama Super Arena Saitama City 14,000 22,500
(arena setting)
37,000
(stadium setting)
 Ourdoor view of Saitama Super Arena [20]
[21]
Saga Arena [jp] Saga City 5,500 8,400 Outdoor view of Saga Arena [22]
[23]
Pia Arena MM Yokohama 7,000 12,141 Outdoor view of Pia Arena MM [24]
[25]
Sekisui Heim Super Arena Rifu 5,800 7,063 Outdoor view of Sekisui Heim Super Arena [26]
[27]

Promotion and ticket sales

Similar to Hanyu's first two solo shows, there was little promotion or information provided on the content before the start of the tour.[28] On September 1, 2023, Hanyu commented on the show's official website that the performance would be spun around the world of gaming, which was known as one of his passions,[13] with focus on the contrasts between games and real life, stating: "You only live life once while games are never-ending. I believe the two contrasting worlds each have their own unique values that I can apply to skating."[28] The first official visual, a blue-black pixelized image of Hanyu, was not revealed until after the conclusion of the second general sales period on October 27, 2023, eight days prior to the opening show in Saitama.[16][28]

Ticket sales were staggered into multiple rounds, starting with official pre-sales, followed by two to three general sales and an official resale period for customers who were unable to attend the show. All tickets were distributed by lottery with exception of the final general sales, where a limited number of tickets was sold on first-come-first-served basis.[29][30] Regular prices ranged from ¥22,000 for stand S seats to ¥30,000 for premier seats (US$145–198 as of April 2024). Some tickets for stand A seats with limited view were available for ¥16,000–19,000.[30] Sales were handled by the show's official organizer TV Asahi and the Japanese ticketing agency Lawson Ticket.[31][32] In order to prevent unauthorized resales or transfers, customers were required to register for an electronic ticket with name, phone number, and a specific TV Asahi ID, using an SMS authentification system.[31] Tickets purchased via Lawson were excluded from official resales.[32] All eight performances were sold out with 64,600 tickets in total.[29][33]

Global concept and structure

The lead theme of the show is the contrasting characteristics of the gaming world and the real world and their value for people's lives: "A life that can only be lived once, a game that can be played over and over again—I believe that there are many important things that can only be found in each of these two contradictory lives. The essential aspects of both will be entrusted to words and skating."[10][13]: 1  At the first three stops, Hanyu performed 12 programs per day with the shows having a duration of two and a half hours each, levelling the skating content of Gift.[34] He debuted three new programs to the songs "Gate of Living" by Japanese musician Ringo Sheena, "Megalovania" from the role-playing video game Undertale by American indie developer Toby Fox, and "The Darkness of Eternity" from the game Final Fantasy IX.[35] The program "Megalovania" was preceded by a unique skating segment performed in silence with only the sound of the blades to be heard.[20] Similar to Gift, the first half was concluded by a 6-minute warm-up session, followed by a performance to "The Darkness of Eternity", which featured a quad Salchow, quad toe loop as well as a triple Axel-Euler-triple Salchow-Euler-triple Salchow 5-jump combination that has not been landed in competition.[36][37][38]

Attendance and accessibility

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Audience on the first day of the Repray Tour at Saitama Super Arena

The performances of all tour stops were all sold out by lottery with 14,000 spectators in Saitama, 5,500 in Saga, 7,000 in Yokohama, and 5,800 in Rifu in attendance on each day.[29] One selected day of each stop was screened live at cinemas in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, and streamed on Beyond Live worldwide. In addition, the Saitama show was re-screened at cinemas in Japan on November 6.

All eight shows were broadcast live or delayed on the Japanese subscription channel CS TV Asahi.[39] The show was sponsored by Tōwa Pharmaceutical and Phiten, with the first three tour stops being additionally supported by Kosé's skin care brand Sekkisei.[12]

  • Attendance numbers do not include cinema live viewing events.
  • Broadcast dates refer to the premiere on the subscription channel CS TV Asahi with live broadcasts highlighted in italic.
Chronological list of tour dates, attendance, and broadcasting [11][18]
Date Venue Location Attendance Broadcast Ref.
Nov 4, 2023 Saitama Super Arena Saitama City 14,000 Nov 4, 2023 [20]
Nov 5, 2023 14,000 Dec 7, 2023 [29]
Jan 12, 2024 Saga Arena [ja] Saga City 5,500 Mar 16, 2024 [22]
Jan 14, 2024 5,500 Jan 14, 2024 [29]
Feb 17, 2024 Pia Arena MM Yokohama 7,000 Apr 20, 2024 [29]
Feb 19, 2024 7,000 Feb 19, 2024 [24]
Apr 7, 2024 Sekisui Heim Super Arena Rifu 5,800 Jul 6, 2024 [26]
Apr 9, 2024 5,800 Apr 9, 2024 [29]
Total 64,600

Set list

For the program details, see List of figure skating programs of Yuzuru Hanyu.

First half [20]

  1. "A Fleeting Dream"
  2. "Gate of Living"
  3. Hope and Legacy
    ("View of Silence" and "Asian Dream Song" by Joe Hisaishi; day 1)
    "Ashura-chan"
    (by Ado; day 2)
  4. "Megalovania"
  5. "The Darkness of Eternity"
    (from Final Fantasy IX by Nobuo Uematsu)

Second half [20]

  2. "A Fleeting Dream"
    (piano version by Shinya Kiyozuka [ja])
  3. "Requiem of Heaven and Earth"
  4. "One Summer's Day"
    (from Spirited Away by Joe Hisaishi)
  5. "Haru yo, koi [ja]"
    (by Yumi Matsutoya, piano version by Shinya Kiyozuka)

Ending credits[40]

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals

Encore [20]

  2. "Let Me Entertain You"
  3. Seimei
  4. Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
    (by Camille Saint-Saëns, piano version by Shinya Kiyozuka; step sequence)

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b A show or concert tour usually consists of a minimum of three stops in distinct cities or venues. For that reason, Hanyu's first solo show Prologue may not qualify as a "tour".[1]

Citations

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  3. ^ Russell 2022, p. 23–24.
  4. ^ Russell 2022, p. 30.
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Works cited

  • Murao, Tatsuya (May 11, 2024). 原孟俊 羽生結弦を語る:極私的RE_PRAY考察 [Taketoshi Hara talking about Yuzuru Hanyu: Very personal RE_PRAY recap]. Quadruple Axel (in Japanese). Chiyoda, Tokyo: Yama-kei. pp. 88–91. ISBN 978-4635907859.
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