Madame Butterfly (musical)

Madame Butterfly is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Rina Sawayama, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly. The musical is performed primarily in English, with several of the songs featuring occasional Japanese phrases.

Sources and inspiration
Inspiration for the content in the series came from several different sources. The characters represent those from Giacomo Puccini's opera of the same name. Nagasaki in 1904 is replaced by present-day Tokyo.

Musical Numbers

 * Act 1
 * 1) The orchestra plays a medley of four J-pop hits of ("Rising Sun" by EXILE, "Koisuru Fortune Cookie" by AKB48, "Love Machine" by Morning Musume, and "Tsukematsukeru" by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu), leading us to the opening scene in the musical.
 * 2) "Go Everywhere" - We hear the opening flourish to "Story of My Life" (a theme which will characterize ? throughout the musical); they agree "Britain forever."
 * 3) "It May Be Love"
 * 4) "One Step Forward"
 * 5) "Come with Me"
 * 6) "Settle Down"
 * 7) "They Call Her Madame Butterfly"
 * 8) "You Are Damned!"
 * 9) "Nightfall"
 * 10) "Somebody"
 * 1) "Somebody"


 * Act 2
 * 1) "The Ballad of Izanagi and Izanami"
 * 2) "On a Day Like This" - Serving as the musical's most famous song and one of the most popular works in the modern musical theater repertoire, Butterfly claims that someday they'll witness a puff of smoke on the outskirts of Tokyo, with a taxi appearing at some point. She might not down to meet him but will text him to see how he's doing. After a few moments, she'll see in the far distance a man beginning the drive out of the city. Upon arrival, he shouts her name from a distance, but doesn't get a reply. Butterfly promises ? that the possibilities of all this happening are highly likely.
 * 3) "Not Yet"
 * 4) "2 Things I Could Do"
 * 5) "Near the Harbor"
 * 6) "End of the World"


 * Act 3
 * 1) "The Break of Dawn"
 * 2) "I Know What I've Done"
 * 3) "See You Later"
 * 4) "What Would Suzuki Think?"
 * 5) "Just Like a Fly"
 * 6) "Dying with Honor"
 * 7) "Empty Heart"