Park Gyu-lee, the leader of the popular female band KARA, will star in a hit musical set for opening in October, announced her agency DSP Media on Wednesday.
According to a press release by DSP, Park has been cast as the heroine to the upcoming musical “200 Pound Beauty” which is the remake of 2006-hit film of the same name, set for performance in Osaka, Japan in October and Seoul, Korea in late November.
The movie, which starred Kim A-joong and Joo Jin-mo at the time, attracted some seven million viewers nationwide, while the musical adaptation of it, which first premiered in 2008, swept a total four awards at Korea’s 2nd Musical Award the same year including the prize for best creative musical.
The plot itself is based on a popular Japanese comic by Yumiko Suzuki, which is a romantic comedy about a woman who transforms from an ugly duckling into a swan through a drastic plastic surgery and criticizes the modern-day perception of beauty.
Park is also one of the hosts to MBC’s radio program “Shindong, Park Gyu-lee’s Sim Sim Tapa” along with Super Junior’s Shindong which airs every midnight.
KARA is currently promoting the fourth Japanese single “Go Go Summer!” set for release on June 29.
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