He has gambled away the family fortune and fallen prey to a pyramid scheme.
The first son Seok-bong is a wishy-washy 33-year-old without a job. The brothers’ personalities have slightly changed, too. “I had a long list of ideas to change the show, but some audience members are used to the old one and I tried to make the minimum changes necessary to make it better,” the director-playwright said. The new number, in the middle of the second act, describes why the brothers loathed their country home and stubborn father. The success of the three-month run fueled encore productions at bigger theaters and the musical raised its curtain for the fifth production in June this year, with a new song. It revolves around a family upholding tradition following the rituals of a traditional Korean funeral. Packed with insights into Korean culture, especially funerals, songs with haunting melodies and unexpected humor, the musical impressed the audience and moved them to tears. “Brothers Were Brave” premiered at the 320-seat PMC Jayu Theater in Daehangno in March 2008. As the idea developed, it became more of a clash of generations, with progressive sons and conservative parents. “It took about four years to stage the musical from an idea,”Chang said in an interview with The Korea Times last week.Ĭhang, 35, said “Brothers Were Brave” began as an idea for a jukebox musical with three sons fighting with their father in 2005. Going through the funeral process, the brothers get into a big fight over a winning lottery ticket and a mysterious, beautiful woman. In the musical, the two brothers see each other for the first time in three years while attending the funeral of their father. It opened last week at Coex Artium in southern Seoul. Chang You-jeong, 35, was already a star director in 2008 with such hits as “Finding Kim Jong-wook” and “Oh While You Were Sleeping.” The two works are staged as open-ended runs in Daehangno, and Yeongdeungpo, in Seoul, respectively.īut in 2008, she put forth a musical of two sons’ conflicting relationship with their father, “Brothers Were Brave.” Interestingly, she infused elements of Korea’s rituals such as a traditional funeral with a variety of music from tango to rap and matching choreography.įour years later, the musical returns with stronger characters and funnier details.
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