K-Pop fans, listen up! Now is your chance to enjoy your favorite music on Broadway.
There are some familiar storylines in a new musical opening on Broadway - a singer and her relationship with the mentor who guided her; a newcomer trying to find his place; young women chasing their dreams.The global sensation that is Korean pop music is coming to center stage in "KPOP," opening Sunday at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
Born in South Korea, Kim came to the United States as a child, settling with his family in the Midwest. K-pop has been a fixture in his life, as have Korean television dramas. He also loved musical theater, especially shows like "A Chorus Line" and "Dreamgirls" where the story is about what's happening behind the scenes.
Back then, America "didn't really know what K-pop was, and so there was a lot of explaining that I had to do. ... This time around, I didn't have to really take the stance of having to apologize for anything or having to explain anything, and just let the story unfold," said Kim, a writer in television and film."It's been really profound and moving actually to watch the world shift in this way.
"If there's a spectrum of universality, K-pop is engineered to be as universal as possible," he said. "That talent exists, and they just need a platform," he said. "So it was really important to me to put these Asian people on stage and see them not playing the typical roles that they play, but playing rock stars, playing pop stars, dancing their faces off and acting their faces off and just being spectacular.
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