What is a Revue? The revue style of musical theater has its origins in medieval France as a form of public entertainment at fairs and would eventually become the early “modern” revue popularized by the Cogniard Brothers at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin and shows, at the then new, Folies-Bergère in the early to…
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BeruBara Tag Boom: Introduction
A series focused on how a musical based on a popular manga influenced Japanese women’s wrestling over the next decade. In February of 1976, a brand new tag team made their debut for All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling and on the same night won the WWWA tag titles from Mach Fumiake and Mariko Akagi. After that…
I say, you say, Heisei 