Earlier, Morning Musume’s leader Takahashi Ai announced that she’ll be graduating from the group at the end of the Morning Musume tour this fall. Many have been wondering what the 24-year-old plans to do after her graduation, and now her plans have finally been revealed.

On January 23rd, it was announced that the singer will immerse herself in the ‘musical theatre’ world, as she plans to tackle the role of ‘Sarah’ for the play, “Dance of the Vampire.” Takahashi expressed, “Right now I have the feeling, ‘I want to be on stage!!’. When I heard that I would be in the play, I was so happy that I cried.”


“Dance of the Vampire” will run from November 27th up until December 24th.


source: tokyohive