The Musical (TV series)

The Musical is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Koo Hye-sun, Choi Daniel, Park Ki-woong, Ock Joo-hyun and Kim Eun-se. It aired on SBS from September 2 to December 23, 2011 on Fridays at 22:00 for 15 episodes.

Filming began in July 2010, and the series was pre-produced before airing. One of the location shoots took place in Broadway, New York City.

Synopsis
The series follows the lives of people in the world of musical theatre, showing the passion and dreams among the producers, songwriters and actors during a musical production. Go Eun-bi is a medical student who loves musicals, and her dream is to be a professional musical theatre actress. Hong Jae-yi was once one of the best composers in Korea, but he quit musical theatre and left the country after his girlfriend, musical theatre diva Bae Kang-hee broke up with him and married another man. When Jae-yi returns to Korea, he accidentally meets Eun-bi and decides to help her achieve her dream. Jae-yi believes that Eun-bi will become a better actress than Kang-hee, and thus their love triangle begins.

Main cast

 * Koo Hye-sun as Go Eun-bi
 * Choi Daniel as Hong Jae-yi
 * Park Ki-woong as Yoo Jin
 * Ock Joo-hyun as Bae Kang-hee
 * Kim Eun-se as Seo Ra-kyung

Supporting cast

 * Park Kyung-lim as Sa Bok-ja
 * Kim Hyun-sung as Han Sang-won
 * Oh Jung-se as Goo-jak
 * Kim Yong-min as Joon-hyuk
 * Kim In-seo as Sang-mi
 * Lee Do-kyung as Eun-bi's father
 * Jung Young-sook as Yang Soon-yi
 * Kang Ji-hoo as Hyun Kwang-seo
 * Cha Kwang-soo as Yoo Jin-young
 * Ahn Yeo-jin as Sun-hee
 * Park Geun-hyung as President Yoo
 * Kim Ho-young
 * Jo Won-hee
 * Lee Ji-hyung as Yoo Jae-joon
 * Kim Jin-ho as President Seo
 * Choo So-young
 * Jung Tae
 * Seo Bum-suk
 * Hong Ji-min (cameo)
 * Jo Ji-hoon (cameo)

International broadcast
The series' broadcast rights were sold to Japan ahead of its premiere in South Korea, where it aired on cable channel KNTV.