KPOP to Broadway

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 3:18pm

According to a new casting notice KPOP will head to Broadway next January.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 3:27pm

KPOP doesn’t interest me but it’s going to sell a lot of tickets and broadway will certainly need that revenue.

Updated On: 4/28/20 at 03:27 PM

[raddersons]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 3:27pm

I'm still very perplexed how this is is moving to Broadway -- I thought it was great but very niche, and I don't really think it was strong enough to move to Broadway. Not to mention the level of audience interaction/immersivity utilized off-broadway is definitely offputting to Broadway's older audience (compared to Ars Nova's typically younger audiences). 

But hey, if someone wants to try it, then it's a nice way to expand the Broadway audience and the existing audience's minds. And who knows, maybe it's been seriously re-worked.

[BCfitasafiddle]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 3:30pm

I wonder if Ashley Park will reprise her role?

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 4:05pm

Que pinga es KPOP?!

[RippedMan]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 4:30pm

PERSONNEL
CONCEIVED BY WOODSHED COLLECTIVE + JASON KIM
BOOK BY: JASON KIM
MUSIC + LYRICS AND MUSIC PRODUCTION BY: HELEN PARK

MUSIC + LYRICS BY: MAX VERNON DIRECTOR: TEDDY BERGMAN ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: SEONJAE KIM CHOREOGRAPHER: JENNIFER WEBER ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER: BO PARK MUSIC DIRECTOR: SUJIN KIM-RAMSEY PRODUCERS: TIM FORBES + JOEY PARNES

Casting: Tara Rubin Casting/Claire Burke, CSA (viewing audition videos)

OTHER DATES
Rehearsals to begin in NYC on or around January 2021
 

Seems like a giant creative team.

[BJR]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 5:22pm

Nah, it only seems large because they list the associates.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 5:41pm

And that says rehearsals to begin in or around January. So probably aiming for around March or April start.

[VotePeron]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 7:35pm

The creative team has been reworking it to fit a more traditional proscenium house since it opened at Ars, as a commercial run on Broadway and beyond was the ultimate goal. From what I've heard, Ashley is indeed still attached.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 8:46pm

I am so excited to see this come to Broadway! Six has viable concert competition if it survives. I wonder if taking the Great Comet route will benefit the show... starting at Ars Nova and reconfiguring the stage space/audience seating for a proscenium theatre. 

[BCfitasafiddle]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 8:51pm

VotePeron said: "The creative team has been reworking it to fit a more traditional proscenium house since it opened at Ars, as a commercial run on Broadway and beyond was the ultimate goal. From what I've heard, Ashley is indeed still attached."

Fantastic. She was incredible in this show.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 9:40pm

I'm surprised any show would announce they're planning to come next season.

[Wick3]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 11:33pm

Given how South Korea is one of the few countries where live theater is still happening (i.e. POTO world tour), I wonder if this show will perhaps do a stint in Seoul sometime in the fall before going to Broadway.

 

[Wick3]

Posted: 4/29/20 at 8:46am

 

Found this video clip of Ashley Park singing a song from KPOP at 54Below earlier this year. I saw her as Mwe back in 2017 at Ars Nova and blew me away. Her scene was inside her dressing room and as an audience member you were really up close!

I love how she does the Korea finger heart at the end of the video!

Updated On: 4/29/20 at 08:46 AM

[PenelopeWatson]

Posted: 6/21/21 at 9:47am

I am not a huge fan of kpop music, but I've heard that their popularity grows. It's fantastic how lately this genre of music, took over the music industry. I work as a substitute teacher, and for one of the lessons, students had to prepare o project about their favorite music artist or band. Most of them prepared a project about a well-known band - BTS. I then informed more about them; I was surprised to see that they are a boy band also known as Bangtan Boys, and because of their hits, they became popular around the world.

Updated On: 6/21/21 at 09:47 AM

[HogansHero]

Posted: 6/21/21 at 10:33am

RippedMan said: "Rehearsals to begin in NYC on or around January 2021"

Did it say Broadway? Because what you quoted did not. (I am not questioning that it could and perhaps should but more the timing.)

[Sauja]

Posted: 6/21/21 at 3:28pm

HogansHero said: "RippedMan said: "Rehearsals to begin in NYC on or around January 2021"

Did it say Broadway? Because what you quoted did not. (I am not questioning that it could and perhaps should but more the timing.)"

 

I just went hunting. The original listing does specify Broadway sometime in 2021, presumably March or April given when rehearsals start.

"Rehearsals begin on or around January 2021 in NYC; runs TBD 2021 on Broadway in NYC."

 

[MayAudraBlessYou2]

Posted: 6/21/21 at 9:41pm

The intention is to come to Broadway. However, they will be doing an out of town try out first.

[Jakeevan942]

Posted: 7/2/21 at 7:02pm

Casting Notice is out for a run at Signature Theater in Virginia-rehearsing November, running from the end of December to the end of January, just in time to come in for the Tony cut-off, if we are looking at a more normal timeline next spring.

 

 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 7/3/21 at 12:18pm

Interesting. Really curious how they've reworked this. 

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 7/3/21 at 1:08pm

RippedMan said: "Interesting. Really curious how they've reworked this."

Same here. I really enjoyed this off-Broadway, but the show will need to become something very different if it plans on playing Broadway.

It does look like they're already making significant changes, as I don't remember two of the principles listed in the casting notice (Juny and Harry) appearing in the original production. The description of Harry's character, in particular, seems to hint at a new documentary-esque framing device:

"HARRY - 30s. An American Sundance sensation who's hired by the label to direct a concert documentary. He's a "woke" dude, an artist, an auteur. He believes himself to be a humanist, a millennial Martin Scorcese, and a man for whom the work comes before all else. Principal."

[LightsOut90]

Posted: 7/3/21 at 2:38pm

they just had to jam one white character in huh?

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 7/3/21 at 4:42pm

Doesn’t say white?

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 7/13/21 at 9:04pm

Looks like this is heading to the Signature Theatre in DC for its "pre-Broadway" run, this December/January. Will definitely be keeping an eye on it and might just make the trip down.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 7/13/21 at 9:09pm

Worth mentioning the show will premiere at The Anthem, which is a music venue for club shows, so not expecting much reworking.