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But it has a curious inertia.
The main issue at hand seems to be adaptation.
What mightve made sense while wandering from one room to another ends up feeling forced under a proscenium arch.
Theres only space for a glimpse at each kind of angst.
But hey, were here mostly for the singing, and especially the dancing.
Helen Park and Max Vernons songs are remarkably hooky recreations of K-pop numbers.
(Even so, those songs verisimilitude ends up working against them in a staged plot.
The original version posed the possibility of a Korean group making it big in America as an open question.
Now, BTS has hadmultiple No.
(The members of F8 still sing a song called Amerika (Checkmate).
(They also may have started when it was still fresh.
Workshopping a Broadway musical is one of the slowest processes in the popular arts.
Even $200 million movies develop faster.)
Throw up a call with the producers on those video screens on the stage.
Show us what it took to get here.
KPOPis at Circle in the Square.
