Frank Wildhorn Weds Yoka Wao Before Crowd of Broadway Stars!

Over the weekend, prolific composer Frank Wildhorn married Japanese performing artist Yoka Wao in a beautiful ceremony held in Maui. The couple exchanged vows in front of a crowd of numerous Broadway collaborators and past stars including Laura Osnes, Jeff Calhoun, Natalie Hill, Douglas Sills and many others.

Wao is a former member of the Takarazuka Revue, where she specialized in playing male characters (known as Otokoyaku). She joined the revue in 1988 and resigned in 2006. She has also performed in Wildhorn's DRACULA and FRANK WILDHORN & FRIENDS.

Check out video of the talented couple performing together below!

Tony Award-nominated composer Frank Wildhorn's first contribution to Broadway was writing additional songs for the Julie Andrews musical, VICTOR/VICTORIA in 1995, after which he went on to compose six original Broadway musicals. He is one of the only composers to have three musicals running at the same time, with JEKYLL & HYDE, THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, and THE CIVIL WAR.

His other works include DRACULA, WONDERLAND, and BONNIE & CLYDE as well as the international hits CARMEN, THE COUNT OF ONTE CRITSTO, RUDOLF, and the upcoming DEATH NOTE FOR JAPAN, CASANOVE FOR VIENNA, MATA HARI AT THE MOULIN ROUGE, and THE MAN WHO LAUGHS FOR SOUTH KOREA. With almost 100 million albums of his music sold and over 20 Broadway and international shows, Wildhorn remains one of the most important musical voices working today.

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