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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Jan 13, 2011 9:31:52 GMT -5
Upon comission from a Korean producer, Frank Wildhorn wrote a new musical called Tears of Heaven which will premiere February 1st and run until March 19.
An English Concept Album is recorded and in the can awaiting the release and the Korean Cast CD is also in the works.
You can hear the Korean version of the song "Can you hear me?" here
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Post by Jo on Jan 13, 2011 11:09:29 GMT -5
I thought Eng. ver songs + Korean songs in one cd. oh it's not. I found that after sending you a false information via PM  |
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Jan 13, 2011 18:20:12 GMT -5
I don't know if it's not. The English Concept is already recorded and was planned to be released on January...and the 2 first songs of the tracklist seem to be the korean ones ("Can you hear me" is one of them).
Well, let's see what will then be released XD
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Post by Jo on Jan 13, 2011 22:19:32 GMT -5
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Post by Jo on Jan 15, 2011 10:24:57 GMT -5
I don't know if it's not. The English Concept is already recorded and was planned to be released on January...and the 2 first songs of the tracklist seem to be the korean ones ("Can you hear me" is one of them). Well, let's see what will then be released XD Yes You are right. it's English concept recording with 2 pop. versions in it. and one is sung by K. pop singer Yangpa and one is sung by Deborah Lew biz.heraldm.com/common/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110104000048 |
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Jan 15, 2011 16:11:49 GMT -5
Thanks for the info! I dunno how much the production costed...it probably costed a lot. |
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Post by Jo on Jan 15, 2011 22:27:49 GMT -5
My pleasure!
yeah It would run the company a lot but they could meet the difference soon due to many duped fans of Kim junsu ^^
anyways looking forward to hearing the whole score
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Jan 16, 2011 13:23:58 GMT -5
By the way, about the plot:
The "story takes place in Vietnam in 1968 and is a love triangle between a beautiful Vietnamese singer, a Korean private, and an American Colonel set against the backdrop of the days leading up to and during the Tet Offensive. The action follows our characters to Seoul, Korea, and the shores of America in San Francisco's Chinatown". (from Frank's official website)
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Jan 31, 2011 14:08:45 GMT -5
yeah It would run the company a lot but they could meet the difference soon due to many duped fans of Kim junsu ^^ I think the tickets weren't expensive enough to stop the fans... The first sale of 10,500 tickets were sold out in 5 minutes, the second round sold out 10,300 tickets in 3 minutes 30 seconds and the third performance sold out all 4,500 tickets in just 2 minutes and 30 seconds  |
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Post by Jo on Jan 31, 2011 23:07:22 GMT -5
I am seriously concerned about what the Korean musical future holds.......
Money is important to musical companys, considering they don't get any help financially from the nation but if they look for only money, I find the future of Korean musical to go down side.
After I saw him singing in the musical concert, I noticed he liked being "musical actor" playing as Mozart. and I admitted he played really HARD, and looked very happy but the voice....simply I've never heard that kind of strained voice -_-;; I don't know it's just me or not.
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Feb 2, 2011 11:26:03 GMT -5
Can you hear me and I've never loved like this from the Press Call
I think the staging is interesting. Just hope they don't overuse the projections...
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Post by scarlet on Feb 21, 2011 23:08:06 GMT -5
Concept album arrived today. I had it on in the background at work and felt like I was hearing snippets of Scarlet Pimpernel and Jekyll and Hyde (there is a definite Bring on the Men feel to one song). Because the vocal talent is all American, I was having trouble imaging the show as taking place in Asia. And since James Barbour and Christianne Noll are on it, I felt like I was hearing some of Tale of Two Cities.
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Feb 22, 2011 9:44:31 GMT -5
Concept album arrived today. I had it on in the background at work and felt like I was hearing snippets of Scarlet Pimpernel and Jekyll and Hyde (there is a definite Bring on the Men feel to one song). Because the vocal talent is all American, I was having trouble imaging the show as taking place in Asia. And since James Barbour and Christianne Noll are on it, I felt like I was hearing some of Tale of Two Cities. You're thinking of " Pearl of the East". It wouldn't be a Wildhorn-CD without a brothel song...the 105th brothel song. And the one I always skip in the CD. And then you have the also mandatory "The Riddle"-like song, Who can you trust? (I bet this was what reminded you of Pimpernel) Still is a great CD with a very talented cast (Although I HATE the gigantic book in which the CD comes) I just don't understand why they cuted the best song on the CD from the show: Between Heaven and Earth. Also...the actual show is half in english half in korean...meaning, the koreans speak korean and the english characters speak english (the guy playing the Colonel is an american). |
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Post by scarlet on Feb 22, 2011 23:37:01 GMT -5
Concept album arrived today. I had it on in the background at work and felt like I was hearing snippets of Scarlet Pimpernel and Jekyll and Hyde (there is a definite Bring on the Men feel to one song). Because the vocal talent is all American, I was having trouble imaging the show as taking place in Asia. And since James Barbour and Christianne Noll are on it, I felt like I was hearing some of Tale of Two Cities. You're thinking of " Pearl of the East". It wouldn't be a Wildhorn-CD without a brothel song...the 105th brothel song. And the one I always skip in the CD. And then you have the also mandatory "The Riddle"-like song, Who can you trust? (I bet this was what reminded you of Pimpernel) Still is a great CD with a very talented cast (Although I HATE the gigantic book in which the CD comes) I just don't understand why they cuted the best song on the CD from the show: Between Heaven and Earth. Also...the actual show is half in english half in korean...meaning, the koreans speak korean and the english characters speak english (the guy playing the Colonel is an american). It's kind of weird to hear James Barbour singing the Colonel when I know Brad Little is playing it on stage. Brad has a much mellower and lighter voice than Barbour and I would love to hear him. And yes, today I said to someone that Who can you trust? is The Riddle. I don't like Rob Evan's version of The Tiger and the Dove, although I do like him on I've had to Learn (which sounds like it could be from Civil War). Not that fond of The first time I Saw Paris, I can't figure out the point of it. I love The End of the World and Raining Fire, but feel that they come too close together in the CD. Some of the lyrics are a bit off, and for a musical theater score, some of the songs have too many repetitions of their chorus. And yeah, the book is a weird idea. It would have been a bit more fun if they'd put at least the synopsis in English. |
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Feb 23, 2011 19:57:16 GMT -5
The first time I Saw Paris was supposed to be there because the show would also take place in Paris...but anyway the song was also cut from the show.
The End of the World and Raining Fire are indeed great songs and they do come quite close to each other even in the show. Maybe it's because they wanted to move the scenes of the invasion quickly? No idea.
The fact that the CD-book helps nothing is quite frustrating.
The Koreans intend to get the show to the USA in 2012 (they aim it for Broadway). It that happens, maybe it will become clearer there.
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