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End comes for Tokyo's Koma |
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Written by Mark Schilling
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
TOKYO -- The Shinjuku Koma Theater, a Tokyo landmark for more than half a century, will shutter at the end of the year.
The Koma, which opened in 1956, became a Mecca for fans of Kabuki, musicals and singers of enka (Japanese ballads), who staged elaborate shows in the 2,000-capacity house.
At its peak, the theater notched up nearly 1 million admissions annually. But as the building aged, so did audiences, and eventually, both the Koma's elderly loyalists and its profits faded away.
Theater owner Koma Stadium intends to build a new entertainment complex on the site in cooperation with exhib Toho, which intends to demolish its theater next door.
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