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"A Chorus Line" Revival Original Cast Member - Connie Wong
Opening Night: Oct 5, 2006 - Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
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"Yuka Takara is adorable as the vertically challenged Connie, who compensates for her lack of height with a supersized ebuillence." - Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY
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Broadway Cast Member 2007 - Alexi Darling & others
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"Pacific Overtures" Revival Original Cast Member - Son/Shogun's Wife's Servant/Kanagawa Girl
Opening Night: Dec 2, 2004 - Studio 54
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"Flower Drum Song" Revival Original Cast Member - Ensemble/Mei-Li Understudy
Opening Night: October 17, 2002 - Virginia Theatre
Yuka was the original Mei-Li in the First National Tour of Flower Drum Song
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"YUKA TAKARA (as Mei-Li) is the indisputable heart of the production." - TalkinBroadway.com
"Solely because of Ms. Takara, the touring version has a much higher emotional temperature than its New York model." - The Dallas Morning News
"Ms. Takara has it all. She sings beautifully all up and down her range. She moves like the ballet dancer she used to be. Most important, she seizes the audience in her diminutive grip in the long introductory number and never lets go. You smile with her as she shyly begins to become attached to Ta. Your heart breaks when hers is broken (temporarily, of course - this is a musical comedy)." - Lawson Taitte / The Dallas Morning News
"Takara was born to play the shy Mei-Li, who arrives, as they say, fresh off the boat to San Francisco's Chinatown and learns to embrace American culture while still holding onto her roots. Her voice can be as tiny as her frame, but she doesn't strain when big volume is needed. She also moves with grace and style." - Mark Lowry / Star-Telegram
"Takara has a voice as clean as spring water. Her opening number, "A Hundred Million Miracles," begins with just her voice and a small drum, and slowly adds a full orchestra and back-up singers. She delivers it less like a song than an epic poem - The IIiad set in China. Her second act number, "Love, Look Away," is so pristinely phrased and heartfelt as to send chills throughout the audience." - Arnold Wayne Jones / The Dallas Voice
"The show has more than benefited from a star-is-born turn by Yuka Takara. Takara is only a few bars into the opening of "A Hundred Million Miracles" when you realize she is a remarkable talent. She is equally at home on her vocals for the tender and dreamy "I Am Going to Like it Here" as she is on the melancholy ballad "Love, Look Away"." - David-Edward Hughes / TalkinBroadway.com
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"Mamma Mia!" Original Broadway Cast Member - Ensemble/Lisa Understudy
Opening Night: October 18, 2001 - Winter Garden Theatre
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