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By Park Sung-hee
The local movie-turned-musical “200-Pound Beauty” will star five-member girl group Kara’s leader, Park Gyu-ri, as the main character.
The musical will start an Asia tour in Osaka, Japan in October and make its way back to Korea in November at the newly opening CJ Art Center.
Based on the hit film that attracted an audience of more than 6.6 million in 2006, “200-Pound Beauty” made its debut as a musical in 2008. It received rave reviews from critics as well as great amount of attention from audience, selling around 1,500 tickets daily.
Park will perform as Gang Han-byeol, the protagonist of the musical who is a secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot sing. As Han-byeol is overweight and suffers from self-esteem issues, she is behind all of Ammyperformances singing and recording all her songs. When Han-byeol overhears that she is merely being used by her secret crush and music producer, Sang-jun, she decides to undergo massive plastic surgery. The procedure is successful and Han-byeol returns with an incredibly different look and no one is able to recognize her.
Along with rehearsals for the musical, Park will promote “Go Go Summer,” Kara’s fourth single in Japan, which will be released on June 29.
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