and the RSC in collaboration with Improbable and Nippon TV. It’s adapted by Tom Morton-Smith with music by Hisaishi; some of his stage score wasn’t in the movie version.As with the film, the show is set in 1950s Japan and follows the adventures of Satsuki and Mei, young sisters who move from Tokyo to the countryside.
The Totoro and the catbus are theatrical masterstrokes, so much so that the RSC has point-blank refused to release photographs of them so as not to spoil the fun for future fans. John Criswell, animatronics supervisor at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, works on ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ My Neighbour Totoro
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