#taekbert

Leo (@leo_jungtw):

택버트 끝났다!!😌 #몬테크리스토

Taekbert is over!!😌 #MonteCristo

170210 Singing Battle (노래 싸움 승부) Ep. 16 Opening - One Day More (내일로) from Les Misérables [VIXX’s Leo & other musical actors]

They did that! They actually did THAT!! They really want me dead even before I watch tonight’s episode ;AAAA;

I already did a lengthy dying spazz post on Leo x Les Misérables so I’ll try to keep this short. HE FREAKING DID MARIUS’ PART AND JAVERT’S TOGETHER WITH JO KWON AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

I really need someone to cast Jung Taekwoon in the next Korea staging of Les Mis, REALLY NEED!! PLS. SOMEONE MAKE THIS REAL 

I CAN’T WAIT TO WATCH THIS TONIGHT!!!! DON’T FORGET!!! 8:30 PM KST ON KBS2!!

Wow. I…don’t even know. I guess I need to start at the beginning. No, probably even before that. Today was just a super crazy day ㅇㅅㅇ (This will undoubtedly be a very long post, and definitely not 100% VIXX-related.)

So one of my hobbies is embroidery (this has a point, I promise), and one of my favorite (if not favorite) fanartists is MireyKim. Long story short, I got permission from her to embroider a drawing of hers and to thank her for her permission and for all her lovely pictures I decided to embroider a pouch for her. I went early(ish) to the theater because she was handing out prints of Taekbert drawings. I luckily got there in time and was observant enough to get one. Then I waited for the crowd around her to clear and her friends to settle down(?) before giving her the pouch and a note I had written. It took her a moment, but she figured out I was the embroidery person. Plus she noticed my bag (of her other drawing), and was super sweet and thankful and stuff. I, being apparently a giant awkward human being, basically ran off pretty quickly;;

사랑도 모르는 못난 내가 너만 보면 밝아지고 너 때문에 웃게 됐어 이제 나 걷고 싶어 너와

Because I miss him dearly and these words describe exactly what I feel for him ( ˃̣̣̥ω˂̣̣̥ )❤ 

After hanging out at a (temporary) VIXX cafe all afternoon, my tall friend and I went to see Leo’s arrival. (By the way, the cafe was amazing. The walls were covered in VIXX album posters and they were playing all the VIXX songs, even from OSTs. It was so sad that Light Up The Darkness started playing as we decided to leaveㅜㅜ)

He seemed so cold (but gorgeous) when he got there. Plus, in my video I took, it looks like he didn’t look at us, but I think he glanced at us before coming in the building... He probably decided not to look at us more that day. The novelty of my friend probably wore off already, haha.

The play...man, it seriously just gets better and better. After the first night I saw it, I’ve only seen Shin Sung Rok as Monte Cristo, but I saw Um Ki Joon again and I am all confused now. I do love Shin Sung Rok, but Um Ki Joon has a certain charm. He feels a bit more serious and a tad more romantic. Shin Sung Rok does the “I’m going crazy and revengey” thing really well though. Also, Um Ki Joon’s voice is like smooth silky velvet chocolate cake that just sort of melts the moment you take a bite. Or something like that. Seriously. I don’t care for his voice as Armand (Mata Hari), but for Monte Cristo...I don’t know if I can say one of them is better than the other because they both have characteristics that are wonderful. Like Shin Sung Rok’s height makes Leo look like a child. Plus, he likes to look at the audience members when he sings.

The progression of a musical (or play or probably any live performance) is a beautiful thing. What I’m referring to is the evolution from opening night to closing night. I may talk most about Leo, but really every single person and interaction has improved with each performance. Even if it were the same cast every day, people are different and improve each time. But with different actors for each role, you get such a delicious variety in even one character (but I have mentioned that before and this is a tangent).

I just wanted to say that I noticed that Leo has this part in the play where his character suddenly matures because of life events, and it just is so...I’m not sure how to describe it. The change should be shocking because it is so sudden, and in a way it is shocking. However it’s not the shock of the change being out of place, it is shock at the change itself which is entirely natural feeling and chilling. I’m not sure if that made sense, but I wanted to not put in a spoiler, hehe. I’m sure that change was there before, but I don’t know if it is just Leo sinking deeper into his role or me noticing things more now. Aside from Leo being adorable and wonderful (and probably looking in my eyes during the Carnival scene) Shin Sung Rok was...amazing. (All the actors are really!)

But with Shin Sung Rok...he definitely likes to look at the audience as he performs. I also think he has to recognize me by now (haha;;). My friend and I agree that he looked in our direction for a couple of the songs. I always try my best to keep eye contact when that kind of thing happens, but I also didn’t want to burst into a smile this time during a touching (if not sort of sad) scene. I eventually broke (the second scene that he probably was looking at me in) and laughed a bit. I think he had already looked away though? So that’s good. Can’t let him see my weaknesses.

As for Leo’s departure (I missed his arrival because of Ravi), he was very cute, but I think he was in a better mood yesterday. Or I was. Or we both were, I also didn’t have a prime spot or anything. This isn’t to say Leo was not sweet as pie, because he was. No, it’s that he was wearing a mask and seemed a bit tired and such (and of course he is with the athletic championship and the musical and Ravi having been sick). I’m glad our little hamster can get some rest these next couple days.

Today was quite the day…and I’m not sure I can separate it into parts so here goes nothing.

I started my day out going to see Leo arrive at Monte Cristo. I got there 3 hours before the start of the show, but it was already pretty crowded. Thank goodness for my height. It wasn’t very eventful per se, just good old gorgeous Jung Leo with his pretty hair and floppy wave back at us before he went into the theater.

Then I wandered over to the area of N’s musical In the Heights. To be honest with you, I didn’t have the highest expectations for his acting, but he was pretty good. Granted, I think a lot of us Starlights were just sort of laughing at all of Hakyeon’s cuteness (and boy was he cute!). It was also super fun to see him acting with Key! But one of my favorite things for the play was that his character “can’t speak Spanish” so he was like faking an accent and rolling his rs when he spoke. OMG, same, Hakyeon, same. The musical was really cute and I sort of almost cried.

Side note here: Before the play, I noticed the girl next to me had a Ravi on the background of one of her katalk rooms. Then she even sort of tapped my arm during a funny part in act 1. She tried to show me pictures of the kids at Ravi’s concert during intermission and spoke English to me. I told her i knew Korean and we talked about this and that (AKA VIXX). Then the person next to her was Japanese and I spoke to her for a second (she was a Key fan), but unfortunately having to switch between Korean and Japanese is hard on my poor little brain.

Back to the play, there were bits I didn’t understand because I don’t know Spanish. I never thought I would say I didn’t understand a play in Korea because I don’t know Spanish, haha! Plus, I was glad to have a seat on the left where N was a lot. Also, at curtain call Key and N came out at the same time and N picked him up by the waist and sort of spun him around, something he can’t do with VIXX…especially Hyogi who he probably learned it from^^

So I ended up seeing our cute N leave, then went back over to see Leo leave his musical. I know. You don’t have to say it. I know. Anyway, I knew there was another event for Japanese fans, so I was not worried about getting there in time. I didn’t have a good spot because the play was already over, but I was at least inside and had a stool.

None of the Korean fans seemed to realize there was an event, so I figured I should tell at least some of them. I stumbled through telling a small group, so at least they knew. I went back to my embroidery that I had been working on, and one of the people I had talked to about the event came over and talked to me. That was pretty fun, and we exchanged contact info. Turns out she was the mom of one of the kids there (she looked so young though!). She was really sweet~

Right, the hamster. Well, he came out right after the event and asked if we'd waited long (오래 기다렸지ㅇㅅㅇ?) told us to leave quickly because it was cold (추워 빨리 가ㅇㅅㅇ!) (it wasn't that bad). Haha. That kid. Gotta love him. When he left in his car, he got stuck for a minute behind a car that was pulling out, so everybody got to see him for a little bit.