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Empress Myeongseong, who first entered Broadway in the US for the first time in a creative musical, elaborately prepared a performance for the 25th anniversary, but was unable to withstand the deficit and ended in just three performances.
The overall performance industry is under examination.
Reporter Kim Soo-hyun on the report.
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Musical'Empress Myeongseong' 25th anniversary performance.
It only cost 2 billion won for pre-production, and 160 people hung up on the two-and-a-half months of practice, but they performed only three times and stopped.
This is because the deficit increases the more you perform with only 30% of the audience seating in two seats.
[Yoon Hong-seon/President of production company: Even for the waiting audience, even if we risk a big deficit, we prepared three performances separately as a preview so that our entire cast can be seen by the audience.]
Performances that we do not know when we will be able to do it again
.
They all went with tremendous determination.
[Jeong Mok-hwa/Actor: Before the performance, I was so happy that I felt sad and cried a lot.
It’s a difficult time, but you came so…
(Thanks to the audience.)] The
musical industry, which has repeatedly canceled, postponed, and resumed performances since Corona 19, has been shut down since last month's double-digit seating.
Last month's sales were less than a tenth of the same period last year.
[Jae-Hong Seo/Actor: It is such a situation where food, clothing and shelter has become very difficult.
I am still contemplating what to do in the future.]
Musical practitioners said that there have been no cases of infection in the concert hall for the past year, and the party has appealed for them to sit together.
Other groups related to the performance and film industry also issued solidarity statements, saying that the cultural industry is in crisis of death, and urged policy support and interest.
(Video coverage: Lee Yong, video editing: Choi Eun-jin, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)