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The musical, ‘Le Passe Muraille’ was composed by Michel Jean Legrand, one of the best soundtrack musicians of this century, winning the Best Musical Award and the Best Director Award at Nuit des Molieres Awards held in France in 1997.
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a joyful and delightful love story with a lot of excitement, fun, and pathos.
The musical, Le Passe Muraille, made a comeback in five years!
The musical, 'Le Passe Muraille' is coming back on stage since it was performed in 2006 for the first time and had repeat performance in 2007. The musical is based on Le passé-muraille, a novel with the same title by Marcel Aymé, who is regarded as the most famous French author creating one of the greatest short stories of the 20th century, and it was dramatized by Didier van Cauwelaert. Moreover, it was composed by Michel Jean Legrand, who is considered as the best soundtrack musician of this century, winning five Grammy awards and three Academy Awards for OST with the films, ‘The Umbrella of Cherbourg’, ‘The 007 film series’ and ‘The Thomas Crown Affair Unknown.’ It was first performed in Paris on November 6 in 1996. Then in the following year, 1997, it won the Best Musical Award and Best Director Award of Nuit des Molieres Awards, which is a kind of ‘French Tony Award.
With the historical background of Montmartre in France in the 1940s, Le Passe Muraille captivates audiences with joyful and extraordinary imagination that blends fantasy with reality. The synopsis of Le Passe Muraille is that, one day, the main character, Dutilleul, has the ability to freely pass through the wall, which completely changed his ordinary life, and he brings terrible confusion all over France. The musical is as beautiful and lovely as its subtitle, 'The love affair of Montmartre Hill', and the critics say it is full of witty words and joyful sense of humor and consistently arouses emotional sympathy and pathos from the audience.
Star-studded casts including Lim Chang-jung, Lee Jong-hyuk, and Ko Chang-suk
The most ‘popular’ musical for the end of 2012
In this performance, Korean top class actors Lee Jong-hyuk and Lim Chang-jung, being highly active in the movies, dramas, recordings, and on the stage, are double-cast and will play the role of 'Dutilleul' passing through the wall, the totally new character that we have never seen. In addition, Ko Chang Suk who is currently attracting the most attention from the movie directors in Chungmuro eagerly wanting to cast him, and Lim Hyung Jun who starred and showed off his decent comic acting skill in the movie "Marrying the Mafia" were double-cast for the role of the doctor, Duvle '(lawyer, police), the funny character beloved by the audience the most. These stars will make 'Le Passe Muraille' the musical that most people want to see during the yearend holiday season.
23 roles played by the top 12 musical actors,
The new and unique musical without even a single ensemble
The special feature and the real charm of this musical is that the twelve actors play the roles of twenty three unique characters. With this reason, not to mention the acting skill of the main character, it is important that all the actors should have decent acting skill for the roles of various characters. For those who remember the best scenes where an actor played multi roles in the first and repeat performance, they will probably be the most concerned about which actors will play in the upcoming show. The best talented Korean actors with outstanding performances and wonderful singing to play multi roles such as, Kwon Woo Young, Kim Dae Jong, Kang Yeon Jong, Cho Jin-A, Lee Ji-Song, Sim Jae Hyun, Kim Dong Hyun, Na Se-NA, Song Hyung-Eun, will play for this musical, and give the audience fantastic harmony, working united.
