In an interview for KPOP IDOL OLYMPIC, Rocky talks about why he auditioned and how he became a trainee. For Rocky, if he hadn't become a trainee he would probably be doing musicals right now. Rocky actually didn't want to join Fantagio when he passed his audition, it was his parents that encouraged him to do it (thanks nintendo)
Question [1:56]: What motivated you to become an idol? "Now is time for a career redirection" Was there such a moment?
Rocky: *laughs* My goals had been crystal clear since I entered elementary school. I had two goals, one of which was Taekwondo, and the other was dance. As for dance, I used to dance just for the fun of it, and had been thinking "What if I could dance to something even more fun?" When I was a kid, my mother was a huge fan of Rain and I wanted to be somebody as cool as him in my mother's eyes. So when I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wrote "a world star", because back then people would always call Rain "World Star Rain". So that's how I started dreaming of becoming a world star.
Interviewer: So your mother had an influence on your career.
Rocky: That's right. I think it was in 5th grade I was watching "Star King" with my mom and at the end of the show, there was this announcement. "We're looking for Billy!" So there's this musical titled "Billy Elliot" and when I saw that, I was like *in cute voice* "That's me!" "I can do all of that!" So my mom asked, "Want to try out for it? Let's try it out since we'll be visiting Seoul anyway." It was just an audition at a dance academy where you'd perform a dance repertoire. So I went to the audition and passed!
[For context, this would have been 2009 when Rocky was 10 years old. He joined fantagio in 2010, and was born in 1999]
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The interview then cuts to a news clip coverage of the Billy Elliot musical preparations when Rocky was interviewed back then. "Every weekend, Minhyuk* from Jinju** takes a 4-5 hour drive to Seoul with his mom, but he's never exhausted."
Young Rocky: I've got so much pent up feelings, but when I dance and get complimented for it, I can blow off steam.
Reporter: How does it feel when you dance?
Young Rocky: Thrilling
*Rocky's real name is Park Minhyuk
** Jinju is Rocky's hometown
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Rocky: So I started training professionally to fit in the role for Billy Elliot, studying ballet, acro
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If the last two Thursdays have been rather pedestrian for BritBox UK, today's update has definitely added a much-needed spark to proceedings. Especially if you're a fan of British-produced stage musicals. Today saw no less than 6 top-tier stage musicals released in full and added to the appropriately named "Centre Stage" collection. These are as follows:
- Billy Elliot (2014)
>Elton John's hit musical based on the beloved British film. Set in a mining town, against the background of the 84/85 miners’ strike, Billy’s journey takes him out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class where he discovers a passion for dance.
- Cats (1998)
>Elaine Page & Sir John Mills star in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical - one of the most beloved West End shows of all time. This special performance was recorded at London's Aldephi Theatre in 1997.
- Jesus Christ Superstar (2012)
>Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock musical returns, starring Tim Minchin, Melanie C & Chris Moyles. Filmed during the 2012 live arena tour, it captures all the passion of the original story with hit songs including 'I Don’t Know How to Love Him'.
- Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (2000)
>Donny Osmond, Sir Richard Attenborough & Joan Collins star in Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical about the rags-to-riches story of Joseph and his coat of many colours. This version is based on the hit 1990s London Palladium revival.
- Miss Saigon (2016)
>The spectacular, sell-out 25th Anniversary Gala performance of this legendary musical. Relive the tragic tale of an American GI who falls for a Vietnamese woman in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Stirring stuff!
- The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
>In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, Cameron Mackintosh produced a spectacular staging of the musical on a scale which had never been seen before at London's Albert Hall - with surprise star guests
Also, while not a stage musical, Roger Waters: The Wall was also added to the Centre Stage collection today. Described as a "concert film" and released in 2014, this film includes both live performances of the legendary Pink Floyd album and over 30 minutes of documentary and interview footage featuring Waters. Here is the official description:
>Roger Waters, co-founder and principal songwriter of Pink Floyd, fuses the epic and the personal in this c
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I personally really love "I Like It" from The Bronx Tale, sung by Young C, as well as "We're All Made of Stars" from Finding Neverland.
I've not been able to see the show before now, and I was really blown away by the entire recording, though I really wish that I had been able to see it live.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4085696/?ref_=nv_sr_2
More Info: http://castalbums.org/recordings/Billy-Elliot-2014-London-Cast/28546/
All the info is at http://billyelliotthemusical.com/live-in-cinemas/
No US date as yet, but most of Europe and Aus is covered
Went to see this tonight at my local cinema. What an amazing show. And the lad who played Billy was INCREDIBLY good. And the best news, it's apparently being released on dvd in November :D
