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Gambler
갬블러
Official English Title
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SOURCE
music
SETTING
Foreign
BOOK
adaptation
Based on The Alan Parsons Project album The Turn of a Friendly Card
Korean Premiere
1999
Korean Premiere Theatre
Arko Arts Theater, Seoul
Further Korean run reference: https://www.themusical.co.kr/Musical/Detail?num=398
The Musical search cue — “뮤지컬 갬블러”
Summary
A musical by Eric Woolfson that premiered in Germany in 1996 and was first produced in Korea in 1999 by Seensee Company.
Origin & Development
Gambler is a musical composed and written by Eric Woolfson, best known as a founding member of The Alan Parsons Project. The world premiere took place in October 1996 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, where it ran for approximately 18 months. The Korean-language adaptation was first staged in 1999 by Seensee Company, marking the work’s first official staging outside Europe. The success of the Korean production led to multiple revivals, establishing the musical as an early example of Western works reinterpreted through Korean performance and casting. 1999 – first Korean-language production by Seensee Company. Multiple revivals during the early 2000s with rotating casts and revised orchestration. Received several awards for performance and staging in Korean musical award ceremonies.
Partial Synopsis
Inside an imagined casino, a gambler, a showgirl, and a casino owner become entangled in love, betrayal, and obsession. Their pursuit of desire and fortune drives them toward ruin.
ギャンブラー
2002
2002-05-23
to
2002-06-24
Country:
Japan
City:
Multiple Cities
Production Type:
Full Production
Language:
Korean
Venue:
Multiple Venues
Seensee Musical Company's production (written by Eric Woolfson, directed by Lim Young-woong) toured Japan during the 2002 FIFA World Cup season as part of a Korean cultural envoy program presented by the Min-On Concert Association, which covered all production, travel, and accommodation costs (an estimated 2.5 billion KRW). The tour opened at Kanagawa Prefectural Hall in Yokohama before about 1,200 spectators, who called the cast back for five curtain calls, and continued to 13 cities including Tokyo, Nagano, Oita, Fukushima, Shizuoka, Fukuoka, and Hiroshima. Featuring numbers such as 'Time', 'Limelight', 'Games People Play', and 'Eye in the Sky', it was a rare full-scale Korean musical tour of Japan before the commercial Hallyu wave.
ギャンブラー
2005
2005-05-17
to
2005-06-10
Country:
Japan
City:
Multiple Cities
Production Type:
Full Production
Language:
Korean
Venue:
Multiple Venues
A second Japan tour with a Korean cast performing in Korean, produced by Seensee Company. Seoul Shinmun (May 17, 2005) reported that it followed the 2002 model, with multiple performances in Tokyo and other cities.
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