[K-MUSICAL] Korean Musical Death Note-Kim junsu(Xia) Review 'The Game Begins'

 

Kim Junsu(Xia junsu) L

before the curtain rises
Countless circular clocks are scattered like stars over the curtains.
The second hand ticks ominously as if it were declaring the end of the world. It is even creepy because it looks like numerous eyes toward the audience. It's like the gaze of the god of death.

Korean Musical Death Note, which was dropped to the ground because the god of death Ryuk was bored, and the person with the name on it must die.
Yagami Light, a genius high school student who accidentally got a death note, and L, the world's best detective who manages to solve any case by using whatever means necessary. The fierce brain battle between the two forms the backbone of the musical Death Note.
In this season, Hong Kwang-ho and Ko Eun-sung are in charge of "Yagami Light," and Kim(Xia) Junsu and Kim Sung-chul are in charge of "L."

Kim(Xia) junsu's "L" was also seen during his premiere. Kim Jun su, who firmly maintained his position as "L" during his premiere in 2015 and re-performance in 2017. It lets you know how much he loves this character.

Even his 'L' evolved or changed. Fortunately, he faced him near the stage and showed a very different interpretation from the "L" at the premiere.

Kim junsu's physical style remains the same. 

In his movements, there is a unique "line" that cannot be seen in other musical actors. Not everyone can show the movement of revealing the character in an instant with just one movement of turning the body to the other side while walking.

In this season, Kim junsu also introduce a new 'face'. In L's master number "The Beginning of the Game," Kim junsu shows a mixture of imagination, anger, expectation and strong will by opening his mouth wide with his expression fixed without blinking as much as possible.

In the part where "L" who was walking toward the back of the stage looks back and says, "He's a high school student," the audience checks the goosebumps of their arms.

Kim's husky voice may be like a taboo in a musical. However, he is an actor who smashed the taboo with his clear delivery of lines like a carving knife stuck in a tree. Above all, Kim Jun-soo's voice shines more in the duet song scene with other characters. Whatever the opponent's sound has, it sucks it up like a sponge and makes it into one.

The biggest reason why Kim junsu's "L" feels very different from "L" at its premiere this season may be the texture of "L"'s anger.
In the premiere of "L," there was a strong sense of obsession close to madness and rivalry with the existence of another genius, Light.
In this regard, "L" at this time was a psycho in the sense of being away from Light, accepting even the confrontation of death as a game.

But this season of Korean Musical Death, Kim Junsu is giving a new meaning to L.

The core of the overall emotion that "L" exudes is closer to "anger" than "game."
Kim junsu's L put Kira, revered as the savior of the world, on the same line as the villains he killed through Death Note.
Kim junsu's L corrects the distorted justice and explodes his anger at another killer wearing the mask of savior without filtering.

For this Korean Musical Death new L, the invisible war against Light is a life-and-death game and the realization of justice that L wants to build on his own.

Ko Eun-sung, who joined Light this Korean Musical Death season, is as charming as Hong Kwang-ho. His driver-like powerful voice drives a deep cross-screw into the soundboard of Kim junsu's "L" in "Secret and Lie."

The energy that the sum gives off is just like a nuclear bomb.
Without the mask, the ceiling of the Chungmu Art Center Grand Theater would have collapsed with the cheers of the audience.

Ko Eun-sung, Yagami light

<All Photos courtesy of OD Company>