The Musical

 

Profile

• TV Show: The Musical
• Revised romanization: Deo Myujikeol
• Hangul: 더 뮤지컬
• Director: Kim Kyung-Yong
• Writer: Kim Hee-Jae
• Network: SBS
• Episodes: 15
• Release Date: September 2, 2011 -- December 23, 2011
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea

Plot

Ko Eun-Bi (Ku Hye-Sun) is a medical student, but she dreams of becoming a musical actress. She thinks about musicals all day and even dreams about musicals at night.

Hong Jae-Hee (Daniel Choi) comes back to South Korea. He used to compose songs for musicals, but now writes pop songs. His friend says that Jae-Hee changed because of his break-up with Bae Kang-Hee (Ok Joo-Hyun) 6 years ago.

One day, Eun-Bi practices a song while out in a park and Hong Jae-Hee, who fell asleep in the park after drinking too much alcohol, is awaken by her singing. Jae-Hee tells Eun-Bi that he wrote the song "Maria Maria" that she is singing. Eun-Bi doesn't believe him. Jae-Hee advises her that without talent she shouldn't think of becoming a musical actress.

Eun-Bi, ignoring Jae-Hee's opinion, decides to take time off from medical school to take part in numerous auditions. She fails all of them. With only 2 weeks left before she has to return to medical school Eun-Bi becomes desperate. She spots an audition advertisement looking for a male musical actor. Eun-Bi decides to take part in the audition dressing up as a man. Her ruse is discovered though by Yoo-Jin (Park Gi-Woong), an investor for musicals, and she is kicked out from the audition.

In the bathroom of the audition, Eun-Bi meets a woman named Sa Bok-Ja (Park Kyeong-Rim). Bok-Ha insists she is a musical instructor and gives lessons to Eun-Bi. Bok-Ja even moves into Eun-Bi's apartment. Eun-Bi then decides to take a year off from school, believing that with lessons from Bok-Ja she can make her dreams come true.

A creative musical contest is then held by an investment company led by Yoo-Jin. Meanwhile, a friend of Jae-Hee asks him to write two songs for the contest, but Jae-Hee refuses. Later, Jae-Hee drinks with a bunch of people including Bok-Ja. Bok-Ja has become drunken and grabs Jae-Hee without letting him go. Jae-Hee takes Bok-Ja back to his place and uses her cellphone to call someone. The person that answers is Eun-Bi. A short while later, Eun-Bi arrives at Jae-Hee's place. Jae-Hee learns that Eun-Bi wants to become a musical actress and asks her to sing to a melody while he plays something on the piano. Eun-Bi improvises lyrics about how she met her musical teacher and also a drunken man who insisted he wrote the song Maria Maria. Jae-Hee now remembers her from the park. Eun-Bi also now realizes that the man in the park was really Jae-Hee ... 

Additional Cast Members:

• Park Kyeong-Rim - Sa Bok-Ja

• Kim Hyun-Sung - Han Sang-Won

• Oh Jung-Se - Goo-Jak

• Kim Yong-Min - Joon-Hyuk

• Kim In-Seo - Sang-Mi

• Lee Do-Kyeong - Eun-Bi's dad

• Jeong Yeong-Suk - Yang soon-Yi (Eun-Bi's grandma)

• Kang Ji-Hoo - Hyun Kwang-Seo

• Cha Kwang-Soo - Yoo Jin-Young (Jin's dad)

• Ahn Yeo-Jin - Sun-Hee (Jin's mom)

• Park Keun-Hyeong - Company president Yoo (Jin's granddad)

• Jo Won-Hee - Vice president Yoo (Jin's uncle)

• Lee Ji-Hyung - Yoo Jae-Joon (Jin's cousin)

• Kim Jin-Ho - Company president Seo

• Chu So-Young - Ahn Sung-Ha

• Seo Bum-Suk

• Hong Ji-Min - (cameo)

My Point of view:

This is the second Kdrama i've watched Ku Hye Sun after Boys over flowers. And i was amazed by her different side, singing. Besides, the  story showed a great passion for dreams which everyone of us seems to gave up. Some of us, give up easily. Likewise, Ko Eun-Bi (Ku Hye Sun) NEVER EVER gave up. 

Lesson: NEVER EVER give up especially when it comes to pursuing DREAMS.