#and you are in essense doing the work for the abuser in that case

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Korean Frankenstein musical: every subtitled song I could find

Because not many English-speaking people share my madness, my obsession for countless days whose name is Frankenstein musical or 프랑켄슈타인 뮤지컬 to be correct, I have decided to make yet another post about this Frankenstein adaptation.

After my boring and long review from last week, I said to myself: what if I try to find more subtitled songs from this? There isn’t much musical content apart from press conference recordings (and I can’t find bootlegs either) and even though not many people know about this show, there are some subbed vids! So thank you, sweet people from the internet, for putting subtitles on these clips, I can at least understand what’s going on in them.

(For further context of these songs, plot or whatever else go read my older post, I don’t know how to put a link of post here, I posted it not so long ago :) )

The Only Future

Victor tries to convince Henry to make a better race of humans with him, Henry doesn’t want to play God at first, later agrees. And an epic singing happens.

This song is very good. I seriously want their voices, acting skills and everything. And Victor’s statement about God is interesting. I mean, from a theological POV you are not correct, but you got the spirit. It’s a great song, Henry/Victor song, epic start to this play, what else do we need.

In Your Dream

I’m not gonna lie. I cry everytime.

This is a song from almost end of Act 1, however, I find it the most emotional in a terms of love from the whole play. Henry loves Victor so much that he sacrifices himself, falsely confesses of a murder that was a Victor’s crime, and dies so Victor can live and continue his experiment. They two are as close as they can be, yet Vic is dumb and Henry voluntarily takes the blame.

And the later part of this song is a heaven. Just listen to this song, even if you don’t care and just pass by, go watch it.

The Great History of The Creation of Life Begins

First of all, the title lenght. Second of all, this is as good as Birth to my Creation. But more twisted and Victor wants to fist-fight with the God. And "God bless me or rather hurl down your curse," sentence is so good.

For a bit of context, Victor reanimates the creature and uses Henry’s head to finish the creature. The thing Víc is holding in the beginning is Henry’s head. He just sews it to a rest of a body. Are you sane Victor? I knew you are capable of a lot of dumb stuff, but now you crossed a line...

The previous three songs + Monologue + Troubled Friend

There are previous three songs in this video plus another two. I just had to put those three songs before, because they have better translation and that previous version of In Your Dream is my favourite.

So we get a Monologue. It’s fine, it’s a love ballad, something like a Once Upon a Dream from J&H musical, however, they went Frankenstein: a new musical road, so it’s a Victor’s cousin singing a lovesong about him :-| ...

But Troubled Friend, DEAR MY! It’s like the tavern scene from the Frankenstein ballet but this time Victor and Henry are taking all the spotlight, and are the stars of that evening. Seriously, I didn’t know and I didn’t even think that Henry and Victor have THAT level dance moves. They are drunk, but hey! Go listen to it, they make me happy, Victor and Henry are happy.

But somebody tell Henry he shouldn’t joke about death like that. Little does he know, he will die in like next two songs.

The World of Men

Second Act starts and things start to go very far from the original source material. The Creature escapes Vic (who wants to kill him, btw) and finds himself lost. His strenght is noticed by an Eva, owner of a fighting arena and Creature voluntarily/involuntarily ends up as one of the gladiators.

I thought only Linda Eder can sing "bad wh*re" songs the best, this singer is very good too, I want her talent, I am jealous.

You Are a Monster

I don’t know if to like Jacques or utterly despise him.

Jacques, a husband of Eva, makes a deal with one of arena investors: if the Creature wins a fight against the investor’s fighter, the investor will forget their debt. And Jacques does not prepare the Creature, or does nothing, he simply slaps Creature and hits him with his cane a several times while making fun of him. That’s not how encouragement works...

In case you don’t know, this musical has double-roles. There are 22 characters in this musical and they are played by only 11 actors. The actors of characters from the first act are now another ones with a nice sybolics. The characters who abuse the Creature are later the characters whom Creature kills. Henry’s actor plays Creature, Victor’s one plays Jacques and later he plays Victor again, and so on. And I love double-cated musicals, look a Hamilton for example.

But the way Jacques says: "Victor Frankenstein’s experiment log," is so funny to me for some reason.

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That was all from subtitled songs, I shall continue more about other things.

Another thing I learned, is that this musical is the most popular original Korean musical (so like an original thing, no Broadway production, no West-End, no Wildhorn) and it had very good revenue as well (and although the first production premiered in like 2013 it has it’s fandom to this day), but the most shocking thing for me is that they are planning to go on a Broadway with it!

However, I feel like this performance won’t appeal to western audiences as much as to Korean one. I have a bad gut feeling, that this will either be a total disaster (monsters tend to not do very well on Broadway, see Dracula, Lestat, or even Frankenstein: a new musical) or it will pleasantly surprise us. Either way, I hope they won’t change the story and songs too much because this musical has it’s original charm like no other musical produced in West. It sounds more magical, emotional, foreign-like. I hope it will have it’s essense even on Broadway.

See, even though I sometimes feel like this musical was made by a Wildhorn fan who wanted to do their own Jekyll & Hyde musical but with Frankenstein, it’s kinda a good thing. If we forget Wildhorn-ish love ballads and Wildhorn J&H tropes here and there, we get a brilliant play with a great soundtrack. I mean, The Great History of a Creation of Life Begins, In your dream, I’m a Monster are so good! The chills every time...

I felt inspired by @dragonheadskilax ’es post about obscure Frankenstein adaptations and decided to make a post about another one myself. His posts about those adaptations made me curious, and I searched on my own as well. Which resulted in finding of this musical. So thank you if you are reading this :)

Okay, I think this post is way too long. If you want to know more about this musical, I made it’s small review with a plot summary before, you can check it out on my blog.

That’s all about this musical for today. See you :)

#frankenstein #frankenstein adaptation #frankenstein musical #victor frankenstein #henry clerval #i know they changed his surname in this musical but let’s pretend his name is clerval #musical #musical theatre #frankenstein or the modern prometheus #the modern prometheus #frankenstein’s monster #frankenstein’s creature

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3. Hating her for not working, just going to spa, resort, and parties all the time, basically hating her for having a privileged live. I feel this is not justified simply because there are lots of people out there who has reached financial freedom and indeed do not need to work, spending all day at spas, shopping and the likes. Also some people are born privileged, never have to lift a finger in their whole life. Does that immediately make them evil, disgusting monsters? A lot are decent people despite being privileged. When you say she's disgusting simply because she doesn't work, you're including all others out there too who are as privileged as her and I don't think that's fair. // This is gonna be long lol but I definitely agee with the other points that came with this and this one a bit as well stated above this, especially with other blogs tolerating/suggesting the idea of bullying which is why I exclusively stay in this blog because the toxicity and hypocrisy is too much for me and my thinking is that if it pisses you iff this much then why talk about it? 8 but I would also like to express my opinion on this particular point. I was also born very privilege and we live a very comfortable life but I don't agree that being privileged automatically makes you vile, there is nothing wrong with being privilege and making use of that but it's important to know when and where to use your privilege and to use it right and wisely and that's the issue with her, she doesn't use it wisely. They can go to the spa, travel and party all they want, I mean..why not? They have the money. But here's the catch: there is a pandemic. Being rich and privileged doesn't really immune you from a very deadly disease nor does it keep you from being a carrier because mind you, she had been jumping across the globe, going to spas, and gathering with people even before the world started opening up and before vaccines were distributed. It's okay to be rich and privileged but don't use it to disregard the current situation of the world where thousands of people die every day and don't certainly don't use it for parties that desensitizes the culture and very essense of minority groups that had suffered and are still suffering from discrimination and oppression. As for the not working part, I think the issue is more on the fact that she does have a job/can easily get a job but she refuses to work for it and that's a different story. She's still using her privilege to boost her career then again, there is nothing wrong with using your privilege to your advantage every now and then as long as you don't abuse it but that doesn't seem to the case here. It's common decency to keep yourselp from stepping on other people when trying to succeed. I admit this part is mostly based on rumors, existing discusssions and personal observations and opinions but just humor me. PR or not, his choice or not, no one can deny the fact that his association with her definitely did a big number on him and possibly have impacted his career regardless if it's minor or not so you would expect that she would at least do something like take accountability for the things they did or at least start being mindful with what she posts, but instead, she just continued to capitalize on the controversy and use it to put her name out there and direct traffic to her social media (Granted, most fans willingly gave her the attention by watching her like hawk). Again, I'm fully aware he actively participated in this but you would still expect that if she was a decent human being, she would be respectful enough to be mindful of how her words and actions are affecting other people instead of focusing on her goal, I mean are we are forgetting the rumours (yes I'm acknowledging that they are rumours) about the things that went down with her ex? The main point is, the problem is not because she's working, it's the fact that she is not working and yet has impossibly high standards for success when she's not even doing anything to earn it which means she doesn't deserve it because it's not

fair to the people who do work for it.This is a tough industry that involves a lot of sacrifice, hardwork and passion for many people if you wan't to take the easy road, at least try to respect the craft.

Exactly!

Privilege is out there, and I myself consider myself a little bit privileged. You can't stop people from splurging to take a trip or to go to the spa for a day.

But just as you pointed out, the problem is the fact that Alejandra has done everything she can to get herself into an audition room, but she hasn't gone beyond that.

We don't see her actively auditioning for roles or working up to the big role we all know she wants. She signed with a modeling agency, but hasn't booked any big modeling projects since then.

It's OK to not want to work when you have enough money to do so, but if she wants something bigger (ie: Hollywood-level fame), she has to put in the work to get there. She can't rely on her money to buy her everything.