My Neighbor Totoro is heading to the stage with the first big production of the classic Hayao Miyazaki anime film premiering at London’s Barbican Centre under the U.K.-based Royal Shakespeare Company.
Hisashi is the executive producer on the My Neighbor Totoro production with the songs he composed for the original 1988 film being used as the music for the play, including songs that went unused in the final film.
The production is set for a limited 15-week season from October 8, 2022, to January 21, 2023, with the Studio Ghibli film brought to the stage by the original film composer Joe Hisashi and a new script by playwright Tom Morton-Smith.