There is this blog I follow run by a writer named Mark Evanier who is very active in the Comics/Animation/Entertainment field (and has in fact been a part of just about every San Diego Comic Con since its inception) and I regularly visit his site POV ONLINE to hear of his tales of writing for Television, writing comics and working with the greats in the industry.
Among other things, Mr. Evanier is also a great Broadway buff, and recently he got on the topic of the song "The Lambeth Walk" from the musical Me and My Girl, and has been posting up clips from various performances through the years of this famous song. So I was catching up reading his blog, where I find he's talking about a prolific musical singer from JAPAN, and it turned out to be none other than...YUKI AMAMI!
You don't know how jarred I was to see a j-drama reference there- this is a site filled with articles of Laurel and Hardy, Groucho Marx, Classic Cinema, and Legendary Comic Artists, of stories of the Golden days of Hollywood and kid stories of collecting Dell Comics. The LAST thing I would have expected to see was something from the JAPAN side of my interests, it was a crossing of two worlds!
Seems before Yuki Amami was taking over the world as in BOSS, she was wowing the audiences with her stellar theatrics ONSTAGE! He posted up a couple of her performances, and looking through the links, I was taken aback to see a very young and cute Yuki Amami being interviewed, looking so lithe and feminine! This was circa 1996, so she was young indeed, but what's funny is that she seemed to have made her mark playing the MALE roles onstage, a talent I'm sure she incorporated into her Eriko Osawa BOSS character! LOL!
PS: Watching those clips Mark Evanier posted up, I have to say- WOW! I didn't know Yuki Amami had such a set of pipes! That gal can belt out a TUNE!
