[TRANS] 100609 The Story Of “Mozart!” And The Award Winners

Best Female Supporting Actress – Shen Young Soo (Baroness)
Best Male Newcomer – Kim Junsu (Mozart)
Popularity Award – Kim Junsu (Mozart), Jung Seon Ah (Constance)

2010.06.07 Met Mozart again at the Sejong Cultural Center Theater!

The musical that reignited the entire musical world in the first half of 2010, “Mozart!”, having had its last goodbye performance in Ansan a short while back, came back together for a special performance in the “4th The Musical Awards”. After having not seen each other for a while, the actors and actresses finally met once again, and they were filled with happiness. In order to give encouragement to the respective nominees, a lot of the audience came for the award ceremony.

Seo Pan Hee, the other actor of the musical, along with all the crew who have provided much help, the crew members of Yehn Hong Kwan planning agency, and Kim Junsu’s parents all gathered at the Sejong Culture Center Theater today for the event.

The award ceremony finally commenced! All the works that received a lot of love from the audience were featured one by one on the stage along with the award presentation for the actors, working crews and best works. Kim Junsu, who became Mozart again began to feel nervous~

“Mozart!” won awards for Best Female Supporting Actress, Best Male Newcomer, Male and Female Popularity Awards. Even though the results were slightly disappointing, each time the word “Mo” of “Mozart!” appeared, however, the entire audience would give its loudest cheers and applause, and that moved us deeper than getting an award.

It was time for a gathering after the end of the award presentation.

In order to celebrate Kim Junsu’s, Shen Young Soo’s and Jung Seon Ah’s win, and also to thank all the actors for the perfect performance they have put up for the audience, we gathered for a small celebration after the award ceremony, which only ended at dawn.

From the preparation stages to the actual performances to the final closing curtain, the representatives of EMK have been working tirelessly…composer Ryoo Hee Seong, who was strict at times, would also take good care of the actors…Lee Ryeon Young, our dance instructor and Han Jung Ahn, our costume designer, who both left a deep impression on everyone for the dance moves and elegant costumes…and best newcomer Kim Junsu, who first went to Kang Nam for an event by the award sponsor before coming down to the venue of gathering…

Park Gun Hyung, our MC host for tonight…the other hero of our performance Park Eun Tae… Seo Pan Hee, who has been laughing with “Mozart!” from the start to the end of the award ceremony…Shen Young Soo, who cried while receiving her award, and for wanting South Korea to remember her as the actress Shen Young Soo rather than “Young Soo”…most popular actress Jung Seon Ah…Woo Man Suk, who joined other events before joining us at the “Mozart!” gathering…Yun Jung Eh, who constantly brought laughter to us by displaying his sense of humour during the performances…also, to all the managers and crews who constantly were at their back, left and right in order to help them shine brighter…everyone sat around and chatted to their hearts’ content, and nobody left even thought it went way past midnight.

“Every time our actors received an award, they would mention ‘EMK’, we are really grateful. We will definitely find a way to repay all the actors, actresses and crew.” – Yehn Hong Kwan Representative

“I was afraid I would forget all the difficult lines during the performance, so even up till now I would memorize them from time to time. Currently, I have also been listening to the musical’s CD often.” – Kim Junsu

“When Junsu first came to join us for practice after his return from Australia, he only used two days to memorize all the actions and lines, and it was indeed very shocking. That moment completely changed my preconception of him.” – Shen Young Soo

“I didn’t really like EMK initially, but now I like it a lot.” – Jung Seon Ah

We were once filled with worries when faced with the initial challenges of bringing in the musical “Mozart!” locally for the Korean audience, but thanks to everyone’s passion and support, we have achieved a massive success. Once again, we would like to extend our thanks to everyone, do keep a lookout for a re-make of “Mozart!”


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[TRANS] 100221 Mozart Goes to China in April! - Daily News

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2010.02.22 14:45:01 입력
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It is announced that the Musical Mozart! will be performed at the Chinese stage.

Musical Mozart's Seoul performance ended on the 21st, and it will move to Daegu from February 26th through
March 7th. After the performances at the other two locations, it will move to China in April 2010.

The Korean side's production representative Mr. Kim announced that the discussion with the Chinese production
representatives went well, and as a result, it has been planned that the Korean Mozart! team will perform in China.
In China, the musical will be shortened to 2 hours instead of 2 hours and 50 minutes (in Korea).

The Musical Mozart! has been recorded to have sold-out tickets after the announcement of TVXQ's member Xiah Junsu’s appearance in this musical.
(*T/N: No words written about Xiah going to China in this news. But he may???)

On the 20th, at the last performance of Mozart! in Seoul, Korea, Xiah Junsu expressed his gratitude by saying,
"The time in deciding to perform at Musical Mozart! was a challenge for me, accompanied by much anxiety.
But because of the existence of the other actors, I was able to finish my performances well."

(*Above YT is from the curtain call of the Mozart on the 20th.)

Always Keep The Faith!


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[TRANS] 100218 Mozart OST Sold 10,000! #1 in Musical Sale

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Musical Mozart! which became the hot topic by a whole hearted performance of Xiah Junsu of TVXQ this year,
their OST release started, and it raised the amount of 10,000 pieces of sale to date all together with the offline sells.

Mozart OST has scored the top musical album sale this year.
(Despite of the fact that the other popular idols performed at Korean musical scene.)
Mozart ! OST is sold at the main online album sale site, such as melon, Bucks, etc began online sound source service.

Musical Mozart Seoul performance will end on the 21st.
And it will move to Daegu on February 26 ~ March 7, 2010.
(Omitted some parts)


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[TRANS] 100209 Idol Star, The Unbearable Temptation

The “it” item of today’s culture is idol groups. (omitted) These days, idol stars seem to have fallen head over heels for musicals. (omitted)

Many have written positive reviews for Xiah Junsu’s musical acting, which began on the 26th last month, stating that he was so good that it was hard to believe that it was his first performance.

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One of the reasons why idol stars should not enter the musical market is because “If that person is set as the main character only because of the fact that his or her ticket power is great, the identity of the musical could be damaged.” Many experts have stated that the majority of idol group members who participated in musicals last year did not pay much attention to the execution of their roles.

Musical critic Won Jong Won stated, “I don’t see any interest from idol stars who are participating in musicals to use this opportunity to expand their hidden talents and skills.” He also said, “Using them as a marketing tool only to sell a lot of tickets will bring a big blow not only to the musical market, but also the idol star’s image.

The foundation of these low reviews of idol stars on the musical stage stem from the fact that they are almost ‘isolated’ because of the fact that ‘They do not rehearse as much as they should because of their busy schedule’ and ‘They are so immersed in their star quality that they treat their fellow musical actors unkindly and do not work well with others.’ (omitted)

The reviews for Mozart!’s Xiah Junsu are mostly positive.

One staff said, “It may be because he was a trainee for such a long time that he has a positive and active attitude and he can pick things up extremely fast.”

Xiah Junsu also spent some time in the hospital because of stress that accumulated from many things including rehearsals. He would repeatedly go to the hospital for a day from fatigue and then perform the next day.

The staff member also said, “Xiah Junsu works hard every day to break the prejudices against idol stars in the musical market,” and “I think his hard work paid off with great results.”

Conclusively, ‘Mozart!’ is being labeled as a successful musical that is attracting large crowds of audiences.

Xiah Junsu proved not only his ticket power in ‘Mozart!’ but his abilities and competence as a musical actor.

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[TRANS] 100121 Junsu's 'Mozart' Received 4 Billion Won

TVXQ's Xiah Junsu has increased sales by approximately 4 billion Won ($3.5 million).

Xiah Junsu will take on the lead role of Mozart in the musical 'Mozart!'. 'Mozart!' opened at the Seoul Sejong Cultural Center on the 20th.

Many in the domestic musical industry are saying that "'Mozart!' already had the money needed to cover the productions costs even before it had its first show." The total production costs for 'Mozart!' is around 4 billion Won. There is no other way to explain this situation other than the 'Xiah Junsu phenomenon'.



Calculating the Ticket Sales

There are 4 people who will play the role of Mozart and they are Xiah Junsu, Park Gun Hyung, Lim Tae Gyung and Park Eun Tae. They will be rotating every day for the performance. As soon as ticket reservations were open to the public, the number of tickets left on the nights that Xiah Junsu was scheduled to perform quickly depleted till they all reached '0'.

The Sejong Cultural Center's theater has 3000 seats. 452 VIP seats, 890 R seats, 538 S seats, 482 A seats, 362 B seats, and 256 C seats. The price for the tickets range from 20,000 Won ($18) to 120,000 Won ($106) on weekdays.

In the case that a show is performed on a weekday, one performance brings in 234.8 million Won ($ 206,000). On weekends, each performance brings in 264.6 million Won ($233,000). As Xiah Junsu is scheduled to perform in 8 weekday shows and 7 weekend shows, he is bringing in sales of 3,730,600,000 Won ($3.28 million).

There are also the provincial performances to consider. There will be shows in Daegu and Suwon and currently, Xiah Junsu is confirmed to perform in Daegu. There are 1954 seats in the Daegu Gaemyung Art Center. Xiah Junsu will perform in five weekend shows in Daegu. If the amount earned each night in Seoul is multiplied by two-thirds to find the revenue in Daegu, Xiah Junsu would still have earned 'Mozart!' 850 million Won ($747,000) in ticket sales.

If both these amounts are added, it totals in at 4,580,600,000 Won ($4.03 million). If Xiah Junsu decides to perform in more provincial shows, this number will rise. EMK Musical Company, that is in charge of 'Mozart!', seems to be expecting sales of side products such OST CDs and pamphlets to rise rapidly as well.


Male-Female Ratio is 1:9

According to the information about people who reserved tickets for 'Mozart!' on ticket reservation site Interpark, 92.5% of buyers were female while 7.5% were male. This seems to be the strength of the Korean and Japanese female fans.

Usually, women do attend musicals more than men but never has the division been so apparent. The people who watch the musical 'Chicago' are 64% female and 36% male. Even for 'Hairspray', the division is 66% female and 33% male.

A representative of 'Mozart!' stated, "Thanks to Xiah Junsu, we were able to draw the public's attention to the field of musicals more than we've ever been able to before."

There are some who are wary about Xiah Junsu's first musical show, but many are saying that we must wait and see. The musical staff commented about him and said, "It may be because he was a trainee for a long time, but he has a very active attitude when it comes to learning about the musical and he learns things very quickly."

Xiah Junsu was hospitalized recently due to fatigue. He was there for one day and was told to rest after being diagnosed with an accumulation of fatigue.

Xiah Junsu's first performance will be on the 26th. As the role of Mozart has been divided between four people, it is near impossible to not be compared to the other three. This is probably the most stressful part for him. He must now prove that his capability as a musical actor is as great as his ticket power.



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[INFO] Musical Mozart! for Public Performance in Daejeon

Performance Overview

From: 23 April 2010 - April 25 2010 (Fri-Sun)
Place: Daejeon Culture & Arts Centre
Time: Weekdays : 8:00pm
Weekends: 3:00pm, 7:00pm (150 Mins)


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[TRANS] 100106 Junsu Again Has Set A New Record in Musical Industry

TVXQ’s Xiah Junsu (Kim Junsu) has set a new record in musical industry.

The performance days where Kim Junsu is casted as the main role in Musical Mozart, all seat tickets were sold out. In a short amount of time, the total 15 performances of Kim Junsu with approximately 45,000 tickets were already sold.

Even right after it was known that Kim Junsu was going to be casted, a chaos happened. When the 1st ticket sales opened, his fans bought 6000 tickets in an hour. On the 2nd sale, it sold out in 2 hours and had collapsed the site’s server. For the 3rd and 4th round ticket, despite Kim Junsu’s ticket sales that already opened in different time period (than the other Mozart actors), still the site connection slowed down and the tickets were sold old in only 3 hours.

This is something that never happen since Jo Seung-woo’s all ticket sold out which was ever happened in the past.

Other singers who had been casted in musicals as well such as Super Junior (Kangin, Heechul, Yesung, Sungmin) or Girl’s Generation (Jessica), Big Bang (Daesung, Seungri) and FT Island (Hongki, Jaejin)’s ticket sales has not been comparable to the mass result of Kim Junsu’s.

The ticket power made by Kim Junsu, an inexperienced idol singer in musical industry to set a stage which requires ability to sing, dance, and act at the same time has yet created many controversies. Economists have been predicting there will be more celebrities especially idol singers who will participate in this musical industry in the future.

To cast an idol star definitely never fail in supporting tickets sales. With Kim Junsu appearance, there are more audiences in range age of 10th – early 20th that give bigger attention to such musical genre performance as ‘Mozart’. Even it helps the entire show online ticket sales since the teenagers now have developed interest in watching the musical stage and went booking the other actors’ performances as well.

Let’s expecting the best musical stage “Mozart!” in the first half of 2010, from January 20 to February 21 which will take place at Sejong Cultural Center Grand Theater.

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[INFO] 100103 Musical Mozart! Article in Sankei Newspaper Japan

‘A Great Attention Towards South Korea 2010 Musical Work’

The bottomline of this article says that this Korean musical is observed as an attractive commodity for the Japanese tourists, and one of Musical Mozart!’s organizers is Japan and Korea Tourism Organization afterall.

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[TRANS] 091223 Junsu, a Perfect Mozart Make Over

Junsu pictures dressed in Musical ‘Mozart’ costumes had been released.

The publisher company, EMK Musical Company, reported that after Junsu dressed in Mozart costumes pictures were published, the third round ticket held on December 21st were sold out in the following 3 hours at 13:30.

On the 18th, Junsu went into studio for photoshoot at Samsung-dong, Seoul. To deliver a perfect Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart figure, his hair was styled and dressed up in the costumes as well.

Junsu representative said, “The costume was made by special request to a Japanese embroidery experts. We also used human hair wigs, so it took time to produce the wigs in different size that will fit each actor’s head.”

After the shoots, Junsu started to concentrate on his ‘Mozart’ practice. Junsu will be featured as ‘Mozart’ stage that will kick off on January 20th until February 21st at Sejong Cultural Center Grand Theater.

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[NEWS] 091221 Junsu's 3 Musical Performances Sold Out!

Junsu, from the acappella idol group TVXQ, shows his explosive popularity in his first musical "Mozart"!

This is the first time that the musical "Mozart" from Vienna, Austria, will be performing in Korea, and the tickets went on sale at 9am and 2pm of the 21st, so one can imagine the height of Junsu's popularity.

After news came out that Junsu will be performing in the musical Mozart, all 6,000 tickets for the first show was sold out. The 8 days following the sale for the second show, the reservation site has been on overtime. Within 2 hours, there were 15,000 reservation requests for a seat in a hall that only has 3,000 capacity.

Junsu, who depicts the main character Wolfgang Mozart in the musical, will be performing with Lim Tae Kyung, Park Gun Hyung and Park Eun Tae.

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[INFO] 091217 Musical ‘Mozart!’ 3rd Round Ticket Sales Starts!

The tickets sold are for performances on February 9th (Tue) – February 15th (Mon), 2010

Due to the excessive amount of people log in at the same time that caused Interpark server to crash during the 2nd round ticket sales thus created a lot of damage, for this 3rd round Interpark has divided ticket sales day into two periods during the lowest hours.

Date: December 21st (Mon), 2009 9:00 a.m. / Mozart: Xiah Junsu

Date: December 21st (Mon), 2009 2:00 p.m. / Mozart: Im Tae-kyung, Park Gun-hyung

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[INFO] 091209 Mozart! Second Round Sold Out!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[NEWS] 091202 Junsu Had Shaken the Musical Mozart!

Immediately after the rumor has spread that Junsu from TVXQ may perform at the Musial Mozart
on the night of November 26th, the ticket sells site got on fire!
The presale ticket agency interpark recorded the Mozart’s top sells on November 27th!

Massive access was recorded, people fought to get the tickets,
and in the morning of November 27th, all 5,700 tickets
for January 26th and 28th performances were sold out!!!
It is a curve of the sales named as "the roller coaster"!

The share was recorded as 22.7% which was 500% higher than the second place in ranking.
(*If there were more tickets to sell, the record would have been higher!^^)
And as soon as Junsu’s performance days tickets were sold out,　
Mozart’s sells had dropped to 2% which is the normal number for the musical ticket.


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[NEWS] 091127 Xiah Junsu Tapped as Main Character in Musical Mozart

Xiah Junsu of TVXQ has been picked to lead the cast of 'Musical Mozart,'
set to start in January next year, according to the musical's producer on Friday.

The original composer of the musical, Sylvester Levay, met with the director along with Xiah
when he last visited Korea and said he looked forward to the singer's role as Mozart,
representative Um Hong-hyun of EMK Musical Company was quoted as saying in the statement.
"Levay was fascinated by Xiah's will to appear in the show as well as his passion for the musical
and had high regards for his outstanding talent."

"Musical Mozart," by world-famous playwright Michael Kunze and Grammy award-winning composer
Levay, will start its run January 20 at the Sejong Art Center.

Mozart Japanese Version (Nakagawa Version.)

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[NEWS] 091125 Mozart to be Portrayed as Modern Rock Star

By Chung Ah-young
Staff Reporter

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a fascinating figure whose life has been covered in various films and theater arts. Now the beloved musician will be recreated in the Korean rendition of the Austrian musical “Mozart!” which will be presented by EMK Musical Company in Seoul early next year.

This time, the genius musician will once again be the center of the work, but, besides classical music, he’ll also be accompanied by rock ‘n’ roll. The muscial’s Grammy Award-winning composer, Sylvester Levay, said that he decided to write a musical about Mozart’s life rather than his music with his writing partner Michael Kunze.


“We decided to use his music only at some certain points but most of the time, the rest of the music is our works. We also put rock ‘n’ roll parts in it. So we can represent a nowadays Mozart. I think maybe when he was alive he could have been one of the rock ‘n’ roll stars in the world,” Levay said in an e-mail interview with The Korea Times.

In the musical, Mozart will dress like a rock star, a distinct contrast from the other characters, who are clad in 18th-century costumes.

The Hungarian composer collaborated with Kunze on other musicals, including “Elizabeth” and “Rebecca,” which were well received in Europe and Japan.

From there, they sat down and mulled over how to dissect a famous person’s life. They wanted to create a similar musical to “Elizabeth,” which focused on the main character’s life rather than her successful career. “That touched the audience and was a success. Like this, ‘Mozart!’ was also made about his life. He is very well known as a genius composer but he was also a human. The scene where he has a conflict with his father shows that Michael Kunze and I focused on the life of the person, and a human Mozart,” he said.

To better immerse himself in Mozart’s world, Levay tried to get a sense of how the Austrian composer felt by looking at his body of work. Levay visited where Mozart used to live and read many books on him.

“Also, I tried not to work continuously but also rest for several weeks and come back to the studio and listen to the work I had done. Once I felt this was the right music, then I used it, but if not, I just said ‘no’ to the music,” the composer said.

Levay said that Mozart also had a good sense of humor and was open-minded.
“I looked at more than a thousand of his works and read thousands of books about him. This actually made me connect with him a little bit closer. Also, I tried to feel the emotion he had while he wrote his songs,” he said.

The 64-year-old composer said that telling about his life through his music was the most pleasurable thing. “But the most difficult aspect was thinking, ‘What if I tell his musical life in the wrong way?’ It was a very challenging work to do,” said Levay.

Localizing foreign musicals is another difficult task due to the language difference, the composer said. Levay said that he constantly tells cast members from certain countries to feel the lyrics rather than reading them.

“I have felt that the quality of the Korean artists is very high. They are the best cast members I have seen so far. Also, the EMK production is well organized so I think the Korean version of ‘Mozart!’ will be of high quality, too,” he said.

Levay lived in Hollywood and concentrated on composing music for films from 1980 to 2000. His most famous and popular work was written for the mid-1980s U.S. TV action series “Airwolf” (1984-1986). Since the 1990s, Levay has dedicated himself to musicals.


For the Korean rendition, musical heartthrobs Im Tae-kyung, Park Gun-hyung and Jo Sung-mo will alternate playing Mozart.

The musical will be staged from Jan. 20 to Feb. 21 at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets cost from 30,000 to 130,000 won. For more information, call (02) 6391-6333 or visit www.musicalmozart.co.kr.

chungay@koreatimes.co.kr

[TRANS] 091127 Junsu's Mozart Time Schedule

Xiah Jusu will act as the music genious---Mozart, together with other three musical actors as main characters.

Xiah Junsu himself stated"Although the schedule is busy, but regarding this as a challenge if act skill also, having watched many great musicals carefully, I chose this perfect production--Musical Mozart which has both artistic value and bright perspective, as my debut!! I will have Japan's acivities well arranged. "

Musical made part claimed, "Original writer Sylvester Levay have met Xiah Junsu once before, and Xiah was interested in and eager for acting this musical. The original writer expects his performance as a elit in music! We reflect the writer's opinion and set it down. " And added, "Xiah Junsu has been accepted by many fans by his activities, this chance as a musical actor is a brand new challenge for him. Hope fans give him attention and lynette"

Jan. 20th 2010, the musical will meet with the audiences!

I've heard the O.S.T MV ! It is wonderful~
^^ imagine the Xiah version~it will be awesome!


This is the schedule of the musical.

Junsu will act on Jan. 26th , 28th.


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