Song Chang-eui in The Sorrows of Young Werther
by girlfriday
Song Chang-eui (Life is Beautiful, Cinderella Man) will be playing a tragic young puppy in love for his latest project, The Sorrows of Young Werther. And the posters do look quite dramalicious. He’s been double cast with Park Gun-hyung (Kingdom of the Wind) for the lead role in the musical theater production this fall.
Song Chang-eui is no stranger to musicals, and has shown quite a versatile range in the roles he’s taken on throughout his career. Of note is his current turn as an openly gay man in SBS’s Life is Beautiful.
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe was written in the form of letters, from Werther to his friend, detailing his doomed love affair with an engaged woman. Young sensitive artist Werther falls in love with her knowing that she’s engaged, then continues to love her while she’s married, until he finally kills himself in the end. Listen, I said it was gonna be tragic. The story is hailed as one of the great influences of the Romantic movement. In short? DraMAtic.
It’s been adapted into countless operas and musicals, and the story is well-known in Korea, because Romance and Tragedy? These be not strangers to Koreans, as you know, if you’ve seen a melodrama or two (or a hundred). Song stated that he’ll be the Werther that audiences are familiar with, “But I want to be truthful to the emotions that are flowing in rehearsals, and I think a different Werther will be born.”
The Sorrows of Young Werther will run from October 22 – November 30 at the Universal Art Center.
Via Joy News
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1 jacq
September 12, 2010 at 11:06 AM
Whao~no joke. It DOES douns TRAGIC. I want to see it so bad.....what can I say, I'm a sucker for tragic love affairs.....
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2 pohonphee
September 12, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Any reason why i'm giggling while i'm reading this article? he, he, he
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danna
September 12, 2010 at 12:09 PM
same here...he he he
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3 Biscuit
September 12, 2010 at 11:53 AM
The posters DO look dramatic, yet why do I find myself in fits of little giggles? The tears, the roses, the curvy fonts... ahh.
Anyways, I like when actors decide to try out new roles and add their own twist and flavor. Some try to portray the original as close as possible while others want to add their own personal tidbits to it. It's quite exciting when an actor does the latter, and I really wish I could see Song in his role live. Poo.
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4 Ani
September 12, 2010 at 11:58 AM
Whoa, these two are showing two different motions in the way they look. If not different emotions, than you could say two different ways to feel the same thing (assuming, they're trying to convey the same emotion). XD
I laugh at myself for noticing these things now. Thanks to jb and fri, I'm freaking starting to learn/notice things I never knew/noticed before. But I like the tear effect the second guy (with the highlights) is giving. Wait, is that a tear or am I just imagining things? Anyways, good luck to the both of them and the whole musical.
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5 kimkim
September 12, 2010 at 12:41 PM
Park Gun Hyung looks like the late Park Yong Ha in that poster.
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anagoshiki
September 12, 2010 at 2:59 PM
Totally agree.
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6 Yoshi
September 12, 2010 at 12:55 PM
My God, I wanna kill myself after seeing these pictures!
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7 anna
September 12, 2010 at 4:54 PM
I had to wiki this and omg, I understand why it's so popular in Korea now. This screams kdrama. So tragic and melodrama. I will never understand that kind of love. It's too much. Too much pain. :(
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8 Minnette
September 12, 2010 at 5:01 PM
Oh boy... Chang Ui looks really really good in this poster... I wish I could go and watch all these good plays that have been showing... >_<
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9 schreber
September 12, 2010 at 5:55 PM
Any idea who his love interest is supposed to be? The article really only lists Werther and his "rival"? His love interest needs to be someone believable and not in that typical KDrama sense where she's so pretty that she expects every guy to simply fall in love with her at first sight. She needs depth and a certain emotional closeness.
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10 Suzy
September 13, 2010 at 5:23 AM
Whoaaa, isit just me or does Song Chang-eui co-star, the one in the other poster resembles park yong ha....arughhh cant take another tragic production -_-
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11 Selli
September 13, 2010 at 6:44 AM
German is my native tongue, and of course we had to read this in school, two years ago XD I do find it somewhat strange in other languages, but I wish them luck for this play!!! ^-^ It's all about feelings, not so much about plot. Feelings! XD Sturm und Drang, I guess : )
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12 Alexis
September 13, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Woooaaaahhh....................O_____O
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13 xlinhx
September 14, 2010 at 11:41 PM
i read werther...it was awwwful lol
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