Chapter 11.9 - Act 11: Slowly 9 (2/2)
“First off, since you apparently don’t have enough time, I’ll go straight to the point. I heard about how you increased your numbers and chose the protagonists. Then, what’s the next thing you should do?”
“…”
As we remained silent, teacher Hong Yoojin carried her steps and tapped the ground as she continued her sentence.
“Quite obviously, you need to choose what musical to do right? Because only then can you start preparing for it. Taking into account the story and song that should be focused, the types of characters you like, I brought some music scores and play scripts in their genres so let’s choose one together.”
After finishing her sentence, the teacher grabbed a pile of papers from the stack in her hand and handed it out.
“Take them first.”
Blankly receiving the papers, the society member started chatting amongst each other.
“Music sheets?”
“Hmm…”
“Are we choosing everything ourselves?”
Teacher Kwak Jungsoo from the side crossed his arms and replied.
“Yeah. We’re not the ones standing on the stage right. Since it’s your stage, you guys have to choose.”
“…”
In the middle of a strange flow of tension, the sunbaes started flicking through the papers. Taking my eyes off of them, I also faced down.
What musical should we do…
When I turned to another page with such thought, I found music sheets with different symbols and a synopsis list with explanations of stories.
[Romeo and Julliet]
[Phantom of the Opera]
From famous titles like that
[Taking a cabbage out for a walk?]
[Space Sunflower Project]
To self-made musicals like that. There was a fairly large list of musicals.
We have to choose from these huh…
I was reading through the list with a prudent heart when Chloe, standing next to me, carefully asked a question.
“What would be goodd?”
“Who knows…”
Since we don’t have enough time to change into a different one after deciding on it once, there was a need to be careful while choosing it.
There was a limit to the abilities of the club members.
What sort of musical would make the most out of their voices and fit the atmosphere? All these had to be well understood before choosing the most optimum musical to create the best result.
Everyone had a matching song, after all.
‘There’s also part allocation of members to consider as well.’
While the upperclassmen were submerged in a slightly heavy atmosphere, the first graders had gathered with their friends and were sharing peaceful conversations. Especially Song Mirae was extremely energetic as the future protagonist and was chattering with Lee Suh-ah.
“As expected, it should be this right? Romeo and Julliet?”
“…Isn’t it too much of a romance?”
“That’s why it’s good! Love stories are always popular right~”
Song Mirae faintly threw a glance at me while Han Dasom slowly murmured to herself.
“Is there anything where the female protagonist dies early…?”
…Is that how bad their relationship is?
I was watching their war of nerves with bafflement when Yun Soojin-sunbae clapped her hands and took charge of the situation.
“First off, I’m sure everyone has finished roughly reading through it. Should we have everyone talking about what they each would like to work on?”
Listening to the stories that then unfolded, it seemed that the famous musicals were more popular quite naturally.
Good and well-known musicals like [Romeo and Julliet] and [Mister Saigon] – since these were verified musicals, that must be why everyone was more inclined to do those.
I observed the nods and joy shown on Song Mirae’s face when Lee Suh-ah, suddenly flicking her head towards me, entered my sight.
“What are you going to do.”
“What.”
She crossed her arms with a pout.
“What musical do you think will be good.”
“…”
In response to Lee Suh-ah’s sudden words, I sensed the eyes of those around me, as well as other sunbaes at the front, being gathered.
What musical would be good huh…
It was about to be my turn but the fact that Lee Suh-ah asked during this timing was probably a continuation of the ‘observations’ she repeated. Just look at her persistent gaze that showed her wish to grasp what was going through my head.
‘…Like I said, I’m not hiding anything.’
Well, since it was around time for me to give my opinion, I should choose now. Scratching my hair, I glanced through the scripts before raising a paper which I had set aside beforehand.
[Animal Farm]
Seeing that, Lee Suh-ah gave a frown.
“Animal Farm? Was there something like that?”
“It’s also my first time seeing it.”
Although I wasn’t that knowledgeable about musicals, I still knew most of the famous ones and yet it was my first time hearing about this musical called ‘Animal Farm’. It must be a musical made recently by someone.
In the Composing Department, there were those that made musicals, operas and the likes so musicals like these were included as well.
However, Lee Suh-ah seemed unconvinced and she made a frown while reading through the synopsis of ‘Animal Farm’.
“This is better? Than those masterpieces over there?”
“…”
Indeed.
There were masterpieces in the mix in the list brought by the teacher. The fact that it was famous meant that it was a musical which already received a certain level of recognition. Therefore, it would naturally be a top-level musical with high quality numbers.
Maybe she found it weird that I chose a musical written by a random person, while ignoring those great musicals, but Song Mirae urgently opened her mouth.
“Right, Yunjae! I watched it but [Romeo and Julliet] is really good. It’s sweet as well. This is the type that is preferred by the schoolkids!”
“Isn’t [Phantom of the Opera] good as well…?”
While staring at them expressing their doubts, I smiled and replied.
“Nn. This was fun and the songs were good as well. I think doing this will be better than other ones.”
A reason why we had to do a nameless play instead of a famous masterpiece. Lee Suh-ah searched for that reason from my nonchalant expression before turning her eyes down to the music sheets and glaring daggers at it.
“This looks better than other masterpieces huh…”
Watching her glare at the music sheets as if there was something hidden inside it, I scratched my hair.
‘…What’s she doing now?’
Around the time commotion ended around us, teacher Hong Yoojin walked up to the front.
“For now, most of the opinions seem to have come out right?”
“Yes~”
“But you see, there’s one thing I want to tell you guys about.”
Teacher Hong Yoojin crossed her arms and glanced across the room.
“I don’t recommend doing famous musicals.”
Due to her sudden words, a strange atmosphere started flowing within the club room.