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Posted: 9/17/09 at 11:40am
"The Chelsea Studio in Manhattan was packed last week with actors taking part in a workshop to promote a new musical called ?Tears of Heaven,? and an audience of musical insiders checking out the production.
It?s an unfamiliar strategy here, but in New York producers often showcase a new work through an informal industry reading, with actors holding scripts and scores without sets, special effects or makeup.
What?s interesting about this new show is that the producers are Korean and it?s an original American commission for Korea. The original book is by Phoebe Hwang, and the show will debut in Seoul in the latter half of the year 2010.
The show is about a Korean soldier fighting in the Vietnam War and a Vietnamese woman, a love story that is in fact a good example of the globalization of the local musical production system.
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Tears of Heaven tells the story of - wait for it - a love triangle. An American officer named Grason (John Cudia) falls deeply in love with a beautiful Vietnamese dancer called Lynn (Deborah Lew). Lynn?s heart, however, belongs to a Korean private, Jun (Paolo Montalban).
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As the story has the Vietnam War as its setting, it might look a bit similar to the musical ?Miss Saigon,? but it?s clearly different, according to Wildhorn.
?The story focuses on a romantic love story,? Wildhorn said. ?While Miss Saigon has a Western point of view, Tears of Heaven includes an Asian point of view.? "
Maybe this was why Phoebe Hwang was fired from Wonderland for both having very similar ideas to other shows and obviously doing this.
This article is weird though - it says Cudia is playing the Phantom in the 2009 Revival of the show and Wildhorn was drawn to do it after a music video.
More at the link"
Stars line up for new Wildhorn musical
It?s an unfamiliar strategy here, but in New York producers often showcase a new work through an informal industry reading, with actors holding scripts and scores without sets, special effects or makeup.
What?s interesting about this new show is that the producers are Korean and it?s an original American commission for Korea. The original book is by Phoebe Hwang, and the show will debut in Seoul in the latter half of the year 2010.
The show is about a Korean soldier fighting in the Vietnam War and a Vietnamese woman, a love story that is in fact a good example of the globalization of the local musical production system.
...
Tears of Heaven tells the story of - wait for it - a love triangle. An American officer named Grason (John Cudia) falls deeply in love with a beautiful Vietnamese dancer called Lynn (Deborah Lew). Lynn?s heart, however, belongs to a Korean private, Jun (Paolo Montalban).
...
As the story has the Vietnam War as its setting, it might look a bit similar to the musical ?Miss Saigon,? but it?s clearly different, according to Wildhorn.
?The story focuses on a romantic love story,? Wildhorn said. ?While Miss Saigon has a Western point of view, Tears of Heaven includes an Asian point of view.? "
Maybe this was why Phoebe Hwang was fired from Wonderland for both having very similar ideas to other shows and obviously doing this.
This article is weird though - it says Cudia is playing the Phantom in the 2009 Revival of the show and Wildhorn was drawn to do it after a music video.
More at the link"
Stars line up for new Wildhorn musical
Updated On: 9/17/09 at 11:40 AM
