Japanese tourists came to watch musical ‘Goong’.
After the curtain down and sent an off to the stage, loud applauses by audiences was followed. Japanese female audiences stood up and chanted, “Yunho! Yunho!” .
On that day, musical ‘Goong’ was presenting popular group TVXQ member Yunho. Eventhough the applauses volume increased more and more, however even after 5 minutes had passed, Yunho still did not re-appear (for curtain call). The audiences who had crossed the sea to watch the show, showed regrettable expressions, but they just smiled and gave another applause while picking up their belongings.
Last 9th evening, musical ‘Goong’ that was performed in theatre in National Museum of Seoul was rather special. It’s because the audiences was only Japanese tourists (group audiences). All the 800 seats were filled with Japanese female in their 40 – 50, leaving the stage to flow with Japanese subtitles. The actors as well, freely used Japanese word “Wakarimasuka? (Do you understand?) a lot on stage.
The audiences were all concentrating to see ‘His Royal Highness Crown Prince’ Yunho. Everytime he appeared, there would be an explosion of cheers. Even when he just removed one button on his suit, exclamation like “Wow~” was leaked out.
One audience A-san who bought tour package for 3 days and 2 nights to watch musical ‘Goong’ said, “Yunho is really good in both singing and acting.” she added, “Eventhough I wasn’t able to get ticket for the last day, but I still want to come along.” When was asked about her age, she responded, “Can’t you see? I’m an oba-san (T/N: ahjumma in Korean) here.” The other audience B-san, “There’s never a Korean idol whose presence and charisma almost reach perfection like this.” as she claimed.
It’s tough for actors to give breath to characters that are taken from comics. Despite Yunho still showed a stiff acting, yet his singing and dancing were stable. There was also a LED video which was fairly functional in some of the scenes, however it made the performance a bit lacking in aesthetics department.
Yet, satisfaction of the Japanese audience seemed to high. ‘Goong’ packaged goods sold in Japan were sold out on the launching day. The musical production company plans to proceed total 4 times performances specially for Japanese audiences.
Meanwhile other TVXQ member Junsu is holding an event called “Kim Junsu Musical Concert” on October 7th – 10th in Seoul Olympic Park Gymnastics Stadium, the ticket which is being sold in Japanese travel agency is also gaining a lot of demands.
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