As what I say, as what I think.
I was a lot interested in musicals in my 20 and 21
so I was going to every musical theater spending all my money
(The musicals that took all my money)
As I admire musicals, I somehow thought I wanna give it a try.
What you can do in this kinda situation is to get into a musical student club
but I didn't really like the idea of doing that
(Three Problems of Musical Club)
To me, musical club seemed to have three problems.
First of all,
It's too easy
Club is a place where they have their established system
and it didn't look cool to get in and follow what they're doing
Second,
I can't create
Because the club isn't mine,
I can't do whatever I want
Third,
too late already
Um, two months later,
I was supposed to go to the army
I got into university in 2010
I spent my freshman like this
and back then was right after I finished my 3rd semester
So right before I get into the army,
there was a little time gap
It was about 2 months long
I just decided to do what I feel like doing
which was...
creating and doing a musical on my own
From the beginning to the end
Starting from nothing
So one day, I asked my friend "Do you wanna do a musical with me?"
He looked confused at first, but said okay
and then, I and he tried to find more friends who wanna join us
I got three in total
I recruited three friends from my hometown for my plan
We made a team that consists of two boys and two girls,
and started discussing how to do a special musical by ourselves
What would you think if you were us?
We tried to think of who our audience was
The audience we decided was...
the people from our hometown
the city of Masan
It's a very weird thing to do a musical in Masan
That's something that only we, Masan people, could understand,
but Masan is like,
buses won't slow down but hit the brakes
the population is decreasing
and it's unlikely to go to a theater in your free time
Anyhow, musical isn't a common thing here
To exaggerate a bit,
this is a wasteland of musical
If we really do a musical like "sharara~"
the expected reaction could be like
"What the hell?"
But that made us even more excited,
and more motivated
Isn't it better this way?
Hey, how do I stop recording?
What?
Stop
(Preparing for Musical 1)
(Script, Song, Dance)
We started writing the script first
This is the script we wrote back then
Four main characters, university students, are confronted with 'reality vs dream' situation,
and trying to go through it and follow their dreams
It was 50 pages in total
Took so long to memorize it
My character was a guy who wanna be a movie director
We couldn't compose songs,
so we used inst. music of famous musicals and change the lyrics corresponding to the script
and created dance on our own to practice with the songs
(His song was saying 'art' also has to be 'lucrative'. Trying to seek for things that are both artistic and lucrative.)
(This type of lyric is a little hard to translate. Sorry! - Mickey)
What's your dream?
I've also got it, but different
I've got a big dream
I wanna make a beautiful movie
When people around the world watch my movie,
cuz way down deep inside, we've got a dream
cuz way down deep inside, we've got a dream
The actual problem was the performance equipment and the theater
We luckily found a place we could rent equipments
and rent wireless microphones for the performance
They said it's 500,000 KRW
It was a miracle that Masan had a small theater in a place called Changdong
Please please not locked
I came to the theater again, but it's locked
They let us use the theater only at 50,000 KRW
And we practiced every single day
Nobody could explain what we had to do that
but simply because the whole thing was truly fascinating us
we came out in the morning to practice
continued it after lunch
had dinner together
We repeated it like nonstop
Good job everyone
It's okay, but you know...
I'm trying to look for a job, writing my graduation piece at the same time
I came to university to follow my dream of being a writer
but then I'm like "Phew I hope I could be a public official"
I just can't bare watching myself being so poor like this
Yeah, right
Let's drink drink!
Yeah, I'm not a rich guy
My wallet is so empty
I don't know how to be serious at all
I'm not handsome
and I can be annoying
but I've always yearned to be a concert pianist
Do you know the romance of an old practice room?
BBigeuduk! The sound of an old key
but my dream isn't old like that at all
Thank you!
I'm gunna be the best pianist in the world
He's got a dream
Don't think you can't do it
Even if I practice every night and bleed at my nose
like everybody else I've got a dream
Do you think I look 'light'?
Yeah, I'm a bright person
Sometimes a idot, and I also like men a lot
I can be tough sometimes
and not calm at all
but still my dream is writing a novel
Have you ever heard of 'joy of creation' ?
The beautiful love story
My dream is a bit dreamy, but it's never a fantasy
like everybody else I've got a dream
She's got a dream
Do you think it's unrealistic?
No, I can surely do this, cuz I got this much passion
like everybody else I've got a dream
Do you also have your own dream?
This guy wanna be a wrestler
She wants to do pantomime
His dream is a cockroach expert
She's a fortune-teller
Soccer player!
Ballerino!
Sheperd!
His dream is going back to home right now
What about you?
I've got a dream like you but different
I've got a very big dream
I wanna make a beautiful movie
When people all around the world watch my movie one day,
I hope I can smile being celebrated by people
I've got a dream
My dream is writing a charming novel
I would be really glad if people get happy after reading my novel
like all you lovely folks I've got a dream
We've got a dream
So our differences ain't really that extreme!
Call us poor,
idot,
and grotesquely optimistic
cuz way down deep inside we've got a dream
cuz way down deep inside we've got a dream
There were four days left until the actual performance from this rehearsal
We were trying to persuade everyone we knew to come watch our performance,
but being so nervous at the same time
Imagining there're gunna be so many people
And maybe because we were too nervous, on the performance day,
there was a mistake on recording, so there're not many footages left
We've got just a little
But it was still a very important moment to us
and I'd like to share it though I know it's not a lot
We tried to invite as many people as we could using all kinds of methods we knew, like SNS, calling, etc
And on the actual day,
about 100 people came visited the theater
This is the moment
This is the day
this is the moment when I knew I'm on my way
Every endeavor I have made ever
Is coming into play
Is here and now today
This is the moment
This is the time
When the momentum and the moment are in rhyme
Give me this moment
This momentus moment
I'll gather up my past
And make some sense at last
This is the moment
When all I've done
All of the dreaming, scheming and screaming become one
This is the day
See it sparkle and shine!
When all I've lived for becomes mine
For all these years, I've faced the world alone
And now the time has come
To prove to them I made it on my own!
This is the moment
My final test
Destiny beckoned
I never reckoned second best!
I won't look down
I must not fall!
This is the moment
The sweetest moment of them all!
This is the moment
Damn all the odds!
This day or never I'll sit forever with the gods!
When I look back
I will always recall
Moment for moment
This was the moment
The greatest moment of them all
I'm nervous really
What do you remember about our musical?
I'm actually a shy person
I can't really stand out and speak to other people
but then, you know, we gathered about 100 people that day
and in front of those 100 people,
I could let them listen to my singing, even though it's not really good
and we let them see all the things we had prepared for that moment
I was getting confidence
'I can do this much in front of people'
I was realizing that
Yeah we got a lot of confidence
We did
We handed out empty envelopes to the people,
and asked them to put as much money as they wanted
It wasn't a lot, but we could pay our rent of the equipments and the theater,
and also having a small party that night
But what we truly earned from that experience...
wasn't something that could be described as the amount of revenue
2011 summer, some may not understand me doing that
because it's totally unrelated to my major
But what I earned that time was a learning that penetrates my entire life
I believe there's no limit to human beings
If other musicals are also created by other human beings,
I thought there's no reason why we couldn't do that
even though it may not be as good as them
"As what I say"
This incapsulates all I learned in that summer
What we think and say can come true whatever they are
What makes it impossible is just our thinking, 'maybe we can't'
My 2011 summer was a time
...that I could learn this fact, which I'm still trying to keep in mind all the time
Then, did I know from the beginning that I was gunna make it?
Of course, I knew it
Not about the result of the musical,
but I knew it was gunna be an essential experience for me regardless of the result
The reason is simple
Because that was what I wanted to do
When you're doing something because you truly want,
you can never regret regardless of the result
Doing as what I say and as what I think
We were young enough to lose nothing as well
What's gunna be meaning without a dream?
So you gotta move
as what you say, as what you think
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