COEX Shinhan Card Artium, February 19 – May 31, 2025
The musical ‘Once’ will be performed at the Shinhan Card Artium,COEX,Gangnam-gu,Seoul from February 19 to May 31 next year. It has been 10 years sence the domestic premiere in 2014 and the original team’s performance in Korea in 2015.
The musical ‘Once’ is based on the movie of the same name released in 2007. Set in Dublin, Ireland, it depicts the love between a guitarist named ‘Guy’ who believed that ther would be no more love in his life, and a Czech immigrant named ‘Girl’ who had no choice but to give up her dreams for the sake of life.
The musical ‘Once’ premiered on Broadway in New York in 2012 and was then performed in major cities around the world, including the UK, Australia, and Canada. At the Tony Awards held that year, it swept trophies in eight categories, including Best Musical, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.
The korean premiere, which opened at the Seoul Arts Center’s CJ Towol Theater in 2014, featured singer Yoon Do-hyun and actors Jeon Mi-do, park Ji-yeon, and Lee Chang-hee.
In this season,the female protagonist ‘Girl’ is played by Park Ji-yeon and Lee Ye-eun,and the male protagonist ‘Guy’ is played by Han Seung-yoon,Lee Chung-ju,and Yoon Hyeong-ryeol. in addition, Park Ji-il, Lee Jeong-yeol, and Kang Soo-jeong also appear.
For this season, actor auditions were held in three rounds in January. Arranger Martin Rowe, who won the Tony Award for Arrangement, foreign co-director Dez Kennedy, and domestic co-director Kim Moon-jeong participated as judges.
an official from the production company, Cinsi Company, said, “Although ‘Once’ is a tough production in which the actors are responsible for all the music, about 800 people applied,” and added, “the audition was truly a spectacle with a variety of musical instruments played.”
(Seoul = News 1)
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