The Baeksang Arts Awards’ indicators an MOU with the Korea Musical Theatre Affiliation to determine a brand new musical class on the annual awards ceremony. [BAEKSANG ARTS AWARDS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, HLL JOONGANG]
The Baeksang Arts Awards introduced that it’s going to set up a brand new class for stage musicals, beginning with subsequent 12 months’s 62nd awards ceremony.
The information comes as a part of a lately signed memorandum of understanding between HLL JoongAng, the organizer of the Baeksang awards, and the Korea Musical Theatre Affiliation, in line with the Baeksang organizing committee’s press launch on Thursday.
Subsequent 12 months marks the sixtieth anniversary of Korean musical theater, which started with the 1966 manufacturing, “Candy, Come to me Stealthily.” The native musical scene has since grown immensely and even gained worldwide attraction, as demonstrated by 2024 Tony Award winner “Perhaps Completely satisfied Ending.”
Baeksang’s musical class will function three awards: Finest Work, given to a manufacturing for its outcomes or contributions to the sphere; Artistic Award, honoring artistic achievements by writers, composers, arrangers and sound, stage and lighting designers; and Efficiency Award, given to one of the best actor, no matter gender.
“Okay-musical fandom is increasing not solely in Korea but in addition overseas,” stated HLL JoongAng CEO Kang Ju-yeon. “We thought it was excessive time that we established a brand new musical class to match the development in Korean content material, in addition to the demand from the general public. The Baeksang Arts Awards will endeavor to develop consistent with Okay-musicals and the Korea Musical Theatre Affiliation.”
Launched in 1965, the Baeksang Arts Awards are one of many three most prestigious display screen accolades in Korea, alongside the Daejong Worldwide Movie Awards and the Blue Dragon Movie Awards. The Baeksang Arts Awards acknowledges excellence in movie, broadcasting and theater in Korea, together with the newly-added musical class.
BY YOON SO-YEON [[email protected]]
