Your Lie in April is a musical based on the manga series Your Lie in April written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa. The show features a score with music by Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn and lyrics by Tracy Miller and Carly Robyn Green, a Japanese book by Riko Sakaguchi, an English-language book by Rinne B. Groff, and arrangements and orchestrations by Jason Howland. The show is a co-production between Toho Co. Ltd. and Fuji Television.
After delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show made its world premiere in May 2022 at the Nissay Theatre in Tokyo, directed by Ikko Ueda. The original Japanese cast featured Yuta Koseki and Tatsunari Kimura as Kosei Arima (double cast), J-pop singer and former Nogizaka46 member Erika Ikuta as Kaori Miyazono, Fuka Yuduki as Tsubaki Sawabe, and Koki Mizuta and Takuto Teranishi as Ryota Watari (double cast). A nationwide tour followed throughout Japan, featuring the original cast.
An English-language concert staging, with direction by Nick Winston and produced by Carter Dixon McGill Productions, Indie Theatricals, and internet personality Matthew Patrick, ran from April 8 to 9 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on London's West End to rave reviews. Zheng Xi Yong and Rumi Sutton led as Kosei and Kaori, while Rachel Clare Chan and Dean John-Wilson returned from the concerts as Tsubaki and Watari. Joanna Ampil portrayed Kosei's mother. Justin Williams was the designer of the Death Note concerts and Your Lie in April.
Weeks after its preview West End concert run, a full West End production was announced. The show began previews on 28 June 2024 and officially opened on 5 July 2024, where it received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. It was initially set to run until 21 September 2024 at the Harold Pinter Theatre but closed early on 11 August 2024.
A Korean premiere in Seoul opened in June 2024 and ran through August 2024 at the CJ Towol Theatre at the Seoul Performing Arts Center. Produced by EMK Musical Company, the show will star K-Pop idols and TV/film stars triple cast and double cast as leads: Lee Hong-ki from FT Island, Yoon So-ho, and Kim Hee-jae as Kosei; Lee Bom-sori, Kei from Lovelyz and EL7Z Up, and Jung Ji-so from Parasite as Kaori; Lee Jae-jin from FT Island, Kim Jin-wook, and Cho Hwan-ji as Watari; and Park Si-in and Hwang Woo-rim as Tsubaki.
A second Japanese production premiered in August 2025 in Tokyo. The cast featured Kurumu Okamiya and Misato Higashijima as Kosei Arima (double cast), Ririka Kato and former Juice=Juice member Karin Miyamoto as Kaori Miyazono (double cast), Shio Kisui and Saki Yamamoto as Tsubaki Sawabe (double cast), and Masato Yoshihara and Taisei Shima as Ryota Watari (double cast). A nationwide tour followed throughout Japan, featuring the 2025 cast.
A Japanese-language concept album with 11 songs from the show was released in 2020, featuring Erika Ikuta, Yuta Koseki, Tatsunari Kimura, Fuka Yuduki, and Koki Mizuta.
On March 28, 2025, a cast recording of the fully staged London production was announced, releasing on April 4, 2025. Alongside the announcement, the duet âÂÂCatch A Shooting Starâ was released early as a single.
Despite having eighteen tracks compared to the 2022 Japanese Cast Recording, the 2025 London Cast Recording has a couple of notable omissions, removing âÂÂThe Beautiful GameâÂÂ, which was cut from the fully staged London production, as well as âÂÂWho Put You In Charge?âÂÂ.
Several songs have dialogue interspersed in the song, such as âÂÂIf I CanâÂÂt Hear The MusicâÂÂ, âÂÂI Can Hear YouâÂÂ, and âÂÂPerfect / One Note 2âÂÂ.
This is a list of the songs in the show. Songs that are featured on the Japanese concept recording have characters' names listed next to the titles. Act 1 and Act 2 are not guaranteed to be split like they are here.