![]() All but two of the 32-person company from the previous season of "Aida" returned for the current season of the show. But we were able to make up the lost time so rapidly because most of the company remembered their lines and blocking from the previous season,” said Corea. “I was very nervous knowing basically we were a week behind. Though the start of rehearsals were pushed back due to cast members contracting Covid-19, Corea said such a well-prepared cast helped successfully take “Aida” to the stage amid the lingering pandemic. Corea has been working with the company for the last five weeks in Korea. “Sometimes I had to make them not be so emotional!” exclaimed Corea, as she recalled instances during rehearsals when a cast member would burst into tears which would trigger everyone else in the room to cry as well. ![]() Corea commended the actors for following her direction, albeit a little too well at times. Actor Ivy in the role of Amneris said that she is able to portray her character’s devastation better as she witnesses a more intense romance between Radames and Aida on stage. Tears started to pour out of her eyes and we were all enthralled.”Īctors Ivy as Amneris, front and Jeon during a scene in the 2019 production of "Aida." Under directions to accentuate the drama in “Aida,” Egyptian warrior Radames has become less macho and more romantic, according to actor Choi Jae-rim, who alternates the role of Radames, during the show’s online press conference on May 3. But I thought I’m just going to let it run! And it turned out to be magical because Soo-ha acted just the sheer intuition that came to her and in the most truthful way that is possible. “They are in between the words.” She recalled a directorial moment during one of the early days of rehearsals when the cast was practicing the show’s very intimate duet “Elaborate Lives.” “I knew that Soo-ha was nervous because she had Woo-hyung touching her for the first time in front of her contemporaries and me. “'Aida’ has always been a love story but I wanted to get more into how and when they fall in love –and often, those moments are not written in the script,” said Corea. Such recent events have certainly informed this production.”Īctors Choi Jae-rim as Radames, left, and Jeon Na-young as Aida performing "Elaborate Lives" during the 2019 production of "Aida." As Corea stepped into her new role of director, she said her main focus was on portraying love and relationships, perhaps on a more profound level than the show’s previous productions. “, most of us hadn’t gone through wars, but now, with a worldwide pandemic and the war in Ukraine, we are living in tumultuous times. The ongoing production in Korea is her first time directing “Aida.” Corea believes the show is as relevant as ever today. The show premiered on Broadway in March 2000 and ran for 1,852 performances until September 2004. Musical industry veteran Corea has been with “Aida” since 1999 as an associate choreographer, alongside prolific choreographer Wayne Cilento. “There is such a love of musicals here that I don’t know is equaled anywhere else in the world,” said the production’s new associate director and choreographer Tracey Corea, 54, during an interview with the Korea JoongAng Daily on May 11. Still going strong 17 years after the Korean production of “Aida” first opened in Seoul, its return to the stage for the sixth time is a true testament to its local popularity. A tear-jerker in one scene and then a hilarious comedy in another, “Aida” is a fully-packaged Broadway megahit. Ostensibly based on Giuseppe Verdi’s opera of the same name, Elton John and Tim Rice’s Disney musical flaunts a Tony-winning score and an ultimate coming-of-age romance between Egyptian captain Radames, enslaved Nubian Princess Aida and Pharaoh’s daughter Princess Amneris. Eight days after national health authorities lifted the outdoor mask mandate, hundreds of locals ready to let loose packed into the Blue Square theater in central Seoul for the first preview performance of this year’s local production of musical “Aida” on May 10. Tracey Corea, associate director and choreographer of the ongoing sixth season of the Korean production of "Aida," poses in front of the musical's photo zone at Blue Square in Yongsan District, central Seoul.
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