Performed Musical in the 2012 Let’s Go Musical Festival;
Awarded Grand Prize just two years after in 2010.
Musical majors in the Department of Performance and Film performed the musical at the “2012 Let’s Go Musical Festival” on August 26 at Uijeongbu Arts Center and won the Grand Prize (Minister of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Prize).
A total of 21 teams participated in the festival, and 7 teams were selected to compete in the final round. Dankook University won the Grand Prize and was praised for performing with the essence of black comedy by staging 1930s Berlin. In addition, Han Kyu-jeong (Senior, Department of Performance and Film), who played the MC in the musical, was awarded the Best Performance Award.
This is the third time Dankook University has won the Grand Prize at the Let’s Go Musical Festival, and it has been just two years since winning top honors with the musical in 2010. Han, who received the Best Performance Award, was also the winner of the Best Performance Award at the Daegu Musical Awards. He is the first to win both performance awards within the same year.
“By differentiating our version of from the commercial Broadway musical, we tried to interpret it in a new way and present new attractions that we can all relate to,” said Producer Park Sung-yoon (Senior, School of Theater and Film).
is the story of an American writer, Cliff, and his roommate, Sally, in a cabaret in Berlin under the rule of the Nazis in the 1930s. The story portrays the reality that people face due to changes in the political ideology and confusion in their values. Under the production of Hol Prince, it was premiered in 1966 at the Broadhurst Theater on Broadway and since has become one of the longest running musicals with over 8000 shows in over 30 years. Starting with the 1966 version, a recent revival version was made in 1998, and director Bob Fosse made it into a movie. It is considered one of the best musicals on Broadway with dozens of Tonys and Oscars.
Dankook University’s Musical Theater Major in the School of Theater and Film is the first of its kind among universities in Korea. It was opened in 2001 and has achieved excellent results in various musical competitions. It has also become a representative musical education institute in Korea with solid skills based on a systematic curriculum.
▶ Performance of Dankook University’s