Opera House at Seoul Arts Center
	Opening 08 . July. 2007 We are sorry! English Subtitle is not available
	Tuesday, Friday 7:30 pm Saturday, Sunday, and Holiday 3:00 pm and 7:30 pm (NO PERFORMANCE ON MONDAY)
	Children under 8 are not permitted in the theatre
	2 Hours and 30 Minutes
	Ticketlink 1588-7890 Interpark 1544-1555 Seensee Musical Company 02-577-1987

Musical Dancing Shadows is an adaptation of the play <Forest Fire>, written by one of Korea’s celebrated realism playwrights Bumsuk Cha. Its themes of love and war, fate and destiny, which are swept away in storms of human emotions, is exactly what makes this story so perfect for a musical. The music of Dancing Shadows first began being realized in 1999 by composer Eric Woolfson. Best known for being one of the creative forces behind the progressive rock group Alan Parsons Project, Woolfson also wrote musical Gambler, which was a success in Korea. And as the world-renowned writer and thinker Ariel Dorfman joined the creative team of Dancing Shadows, the project was finally well under its way. Ariel Dorfman became well known to Korean audiences in 2003 through his plays “Death and the Maiden” and “The Other Side”. A director Paul Garrington, who also directed Mamma Mia! in Seoul joined the creative team for the project. Under his direction, Dancing Shadow is currently undergoing very detailed rewrites. Along with the above creative team who has worked in Broadway and Westend and all over the world, the best designers and directors from Korea will join Dancing Shadows as well, to complete the rest of the creative staff. By taking its time in preparation, using well established directors, and workshop-ing the show, Dancing Shadows will be the first musical in Korea to have taken such care in making one.

Constanza is a village devastated by the civil war. The men of this village have lost their lives in battle leaving only their widows to survive under the oppression of the sun worshiping Sun Army and the moon worshiping Moon Army, which occupies the village in turns. The mountain in the village where the grandfather tree live has a forest: a special resting place for the souls. Nashtala, the only protector of the forest and the only one who can understand the messages of the forest lives under the villagers’ misapprehension and criticism. Solomon, a runaway Moon soldier who is dragged into the village by the Sun army as a captive, and Nashtala and Cinda(daughter of Mama Aster and Nashtala’s cousin) develops special feelings towards him. Solomon and Nashtala fell in love yet Cinda engages Solomon into making love with her against his will. Mama Aster, Nashtala’s aunt and the village chief scolds the widows and orders them to prepare the war supplies to be offered to the next invading army. She holds Nashtala to blame because of her uncooperative attitude. Nashtala confesses that she could not hurt the trees of the forest. But Mama Aster is unsympathetic, reproaching Nashtala for being sentimental.

Seensee Musical Company & Seoul Arts Center