Confirmed: Junsu will play the role of “Death” in the musical “Elisabeth”. Opening day is February 9th.
Junsu Musical Elizabeth web site: http://www.musicalelisabeth.com
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[NEWS] Junsu Saw Musical “Guys and Dolls” and Left Immediately After the Ending
JYJ Kim Junsu Watch “Guys and Dolls.” Ok Juhyun: “To Leave Immediate After the Ending”
It has become known that group JYJ member Kim Junsu had watched the musical Guys and Dolls. Kim Junsu mentioned actor Kim Muyul on the 22nd: “Thanks to you, I had fun watching Guys and Dolls.”
After that, Ok Juhyun who is appearing in the musical left a mention, saying: “To leave immediately after the ending of the show.” Guys and Dolls will be on until the 18th of next month in LG Art Center in Seoul. Kim Youngju, Ok Juhyun, Jin Gu, Lee Yongwoo, Kim Muyul, and Lee Yul are appearing.
The netizens who saw this left fun responses: “After seeing the performance, gone~” “I heard that he left only seeing the performance and I guess it was true.” “I guess Ms. Ok Juhyun was disappointed.”
On the other hand, Kim Junsu challenged himself at musicals through Mozart and won the Rookie Male Actor of the Year award in the 4th ceremony of The Musical Awards. He was a candidate for the 5th ceremony of The Musical Awards with Tears of Heaven. He is showing such thriving activities as an actor.
Further, recently he participated in the OST of the SBS TV drama Scent of a Woman and made a surprise appearance as a star with the name of Kim Junsu and received a big response.
[Trans] 110630 Kim Junsu, “I would like to act out musicals in theatres too.
“Falling in love with musicals, next year, the year after next, I would like to act out musicals in theatres.” Moving onward from Xiah Junsu to Kim Junsu, he met us in a cafe at Cheongdam-dong on the 29th.
Upon talking about musicals, this new actor who debuted in musical field for 2 years would passionately discussed with us, but when facing burdensome inquiries, he would be alike to the idol singer who debuted for 8 years, displaying his experiences and confidence.
Within the idols who challenged musicals, Kim Junsu is definitely the topic. Other than the subsequent lead acting of great works, the tickets that were sold out within a short time, the high performance fee etc, were the topics of discussion.
Even though the raging topics, why did you decided to step in with musicals from the start?
“It’s just the right timing. Although I did received projects from movies, dramas and there are free slots in between schedules…. but compared to anything, music is still the most important. So I was thinking since it a must to have music, why not take a try at musicals? When I first acted in musicals, I did not think that I would end up loving it. (laughs)”
After the debut musical ‘Mozart’, you were asked to lead in ‘Tears of Heaven’, this simply is a follow-up victory.
“I seems to have slightly understood what musical is about until recently. In the beginning, it felt very tiring even though there’s no mistake made, now I’m slowly learning through the amicable cooperation with the other actors… and starts to notice the reactions of the audience. Thus the musical performances for every day is different.” He continued introducing the so-called ’3 seconds difference’ on stage. “There is a scene in Mozart where I followed the Baroness, how many seconds should I back-faced the audience after finishing my lines so that I can display to the audience the feel that I wanted? The most suitable timing is about 3 seconds. (laughs)”
Other than this, he was often pointed out that his delivery of lyrics was not as strong as professional musical actors.
“Singing in musical is totally different from singing songs. For example, the usage of ‘banding’ (a singing technique where the note was dragged and blended into the next word) was not appropriate. The lyrics has to be sang out one word by one word. Compared to other actors, maybe it was not easily differentiate but it would still be better that l changed my way of singing.”
As a musical actor and actively as an idol singer, do you feel that you have slowly became closer to any character?
“But if I were to stand on JYJ’s stage now and to sing with my way of singing in musical, it would probably be a torture to the members. Even my hand signals has slowly increased. (laughs) I think for me right now, it is to slowly forwarding towards the way of ‘Even if I was a singer, I’m also a musical actor.’ Just as though there’s a switch in between the two, where I can freely move around.”
There were a lot of controversies. Like the rumours of ten millions of performance fees and the ability to become the male lead due to the investment by the company (you belonged) etc. When asked about the question of ‘idol glamour’, Kim Junsu surprisingly gave a calm and outright attitude while giving an answer.
“I understand that the choir department actors were able to stand on stage after working hard for a long while. I received this ‘gift’ of being the lead actor after my hardwork as a singer, this is at least how my thought is. As for the high performance fee rumours, I think it’s not only in musical that there are such rumours right? No matter it be drama or CF, there were many issues for the receipt of fees that broke records too… It’s just that the musical industry was so bad and thus the unique appearance of such rumours, right?”
Do you have any contributions that you wanted to do or ambitions that you have in the future involvement into musicals?
“Next year, or the year after, I would like to act in theatres. If I can be ambassador-like and create the effect of supporting musicals, it would be a rather grateful thing. But to do till such, the first step should be having audience who watch, and to have the love of the public, then the public performance can be a success, and followed on by more investors. Therefore, the production company and actors will be able to create a more fruitful work, and afterwhich wouldn’t there be a possible promotion to overseas?”
Due to the contract issue between JYJ and ex-company SM, the broadcasting activities were restricted by their contract. (T/N: JYJ was not directly restricted due to contractual problems. Refer to legal news.)
“It’s currently still in an unclear state. Due to the difficulties currently, we just have to try working in other directions, this is very exhausting. If there were things we wished to do, we’d have to think about how to do it in another way, and then not to give up on any hope.”
He is currently a young adult of 24 years old, are there any plans for army enlistment? He jokingly replied, “When performing the story in ‘Tears of Heaven’, I ever thought, ‘Why not bring forward the enlistment, it actually would be not a bad experience, isn’t it!’.”
“I received a health check last February and of course it’s a must to enlist for army. (laughs) The results for the health check is 3rd grade (note: 3rd grade is for person who had injuries but still able to be enlisted in army and an approximate of 22 months.) There’s a bit of disappointment for the results. I’m a man afterall, and has the pride of a man, I thought the results will be of 1st grade. Hopefully I can be enlisted after maximizing the activities I can do.”
We asked about the greatest change after involving in musicals.
“During the empty period (lawsuit with SM), musical came to me, and now I only listened to music from musicals. I hope to become an actor who is able to inspire and touch the audience.”
Credit: Yonhap news+JYJ Baidu
Translated by: rachui@sharingyoochun
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[NEWS] Kim Junsu Selected as Honorary Ambassador for “The Musical Awards”
Kim Junsu and Cho Jungeun Selected as Honorary Ambassadors for the 5th Ceremony of “The Musical Awards”
To serve as honorary ambassadors of “The Musical Awards,” which is going to be held on the coming June 7th and co-sponsored by the Korean Association of Musicals, Joongang Ilbo and jTBC, Musical actors Kim Junsu and Cho Jungeun were selected.
Kim Junsu received the Best New Male Actor Award in the last year’s “The Musical Awards” and rose as a rising star in musicals. Cho Jungeun is showing a more mature and deeper acting after studying abroad in England and is receiving the attention of the fans all by herself.
Kim Junsu, who had received the Best New Male Actor Award in the last year’s “The Musical Awards” through his first musical work “Mozart!,” met with the audience through the most talked-about musical of the first half of 2011, “Tears of Heaven,” in which the best staff of Broadway and the top actors of inside and outside of Korea participated. Kim Junsu set the record of selling out every seat and showed the best of ticket-powers and is showing a firm determination that he will continue to stand on musical stages.
(Parts unrelated to Junsu omitted)
On the other hand, “The Musical Awards” has grown with the musical market of Korea since being held for the first time in 2007. This year is its fifth and it is taking its place as a festival of the concert affiliates and the audiences who have protected the field of musicals. The introduction of the honorary ambassadors, the announcement of the works moving on to the main selection process and the schedule for activities after the awards ceremony are planned to be revealed through the official press conference on May 12.
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JYJ’s Kim Junsu has decided to join the cast of the musical ‘Mozart!’ as the leading role.
This means that there are a total of four actors who will play Mozart, and they are Lim Tae Kyung, Park Eun Tae, Kim Junsu and Jeon Dong Seok.
Kim Junsu’s appearance in the production became a hot topic of debate amongst fans and representatives of the musical industry when it was announced that the musical would be having encore performances in 2011.
Kim Junsu debuted as a musical actor through the musical ‘Mozart!’ last January and was able to make a successful debut by sweeping up all Best Newcomer awards and Ticket Power awards in various musical awards ceremonies such as The Musical Awards, the Korean Musical Awards and the Interpark Golden Ticket Awards.
Afterwards, he stood on stage with world-renowned musical actor Brad Little in a new musical, working with Frank Wildhorn, the composer of ‘Monte Christo’ and ‘Jekyll and Hyde’.
Kim Junsu stated, “Because ‘Mozart!’ was the first production since my debut that I participated in as Kim Junsu, I have a lot of affection for it and there is a feeling of longing that I have because it was my first musical,” and “But then I heard that most of the original cast of ‘Mozart!’ were getting together for an encore performance, and I knew that I had to stand on stage with them as Mozart again.”
Kim Junsu, who is currently participating in a variety of activities with his fellow band-mates Park Yoochun and Kim Jaejoong, recently finished the first leg of JYJ’s World Tour in Thailand with success. Though many were initially skeptical of his appearance in the musical due to his busy schedule as a singer, Kim Junsu’s agency and the production company were able to come to a compromise and set an appropriate schedule as Kim Junsu himself had a strong desire to return to the musical.
CEO Eom Hong Hyun of EMK Musical Company stated, “We are extremely happy to be able to work with Kim Junsu again. Because he is an actor who was able to incorporate his own style into Mozart’s rebellious and free-spirited character, we are excited to see how much he has grown in the past year,” and “Because he’s an artiste who is still young and full of potential, we hope he continues to try out various genres of music so that he can continue to be a leading example to other singers.“
Yoo Hui Sung, who has returned as the director for the musical, stated, “I’m highly anticipating working with Kim Junsu again and we will work hard to show the audience a great performance.”
The musical ‘Mozart!’ reinterprets the dynamic life of the musical genius Mozart with a variety of musical genres such as rock and jazz. With over 500 extravagant costumes and wigs, it is considered to be Europe’s greatest musical, enrapturing tens of millions of audience members with its content and visual intricacy.
It was first performed in Korea in 2010 at the Sejong Arts Center and broke records by bringing in over 100,000 audience members in just one month. The musical then proceeded to collect a total of 11 trophies in various musical awards ceremonies in 2010.
The encore performances of the musical ‘Mozart!’ will be held from May 24th to July 3rd at the Seongnam Arts Center and the cast will include actors from the original cast such as Lim Tae Kyung, Park Eun Tae, Seo Bum Seok, Min Young Gi, Lee Kyung Mi, Shin Youn Suk and Jung Seon Ah as well as some new faces such as Jeon Dong Seok, Lim Gang Hee, Jung Young Joo, Yoon Seung Wook and Enok.
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