The movie starring Uhm Jung-hwa and Hwang Jung-min was born as a dancing queen musical...K-musical, global evaluation. Once again

Jul 10, 2025

The movie starring Uhm Jung-hwa and Hwang Jung-min was born as a dancing queen musical...K-musical, global evaluation. Once again
Movie "Dancing Queen" poster. Photo =CJENM



CJ ENM will produce a creative musical based on the original IP, film 'Dancing Queen'.

CJ ENM will join hands with top-class creative teams at home and abroad to produce creative musicals aimed at entering the global market. The company started its performance business in 2003, introducing a wide range of musical productions in Korea, including creative musical such as 「Finding Kim Jong-wook」,"Werther" and"Gwanghwamun Love Song" as well as licensed musical such as"42nd Street',"Beatlejuice" and"Cyrano" and"Moulin Rouge!','Kingkie Boots','Bodyguard','Big Fish','Back to the Future','MJ','Durtlevik' in Broadway in the U.S., a mecca of the global performance industry, and in the West, We have begun full-scale planning and development work.

The movie starring Uhm Jung-hwa and Hwang Jung-min was born as a dancing queen musical...K-musical, global evaluation. Once again
Movie "Dancing Queen" poster. Photo =CJENM
CJ ENM is the first Korean company to win the Tony Awards and has also participated in the Tony Awards review through its full membership in the Broadway League. Based on CJ ENM's network and production capabilities, this musical 'Dancing Queen (tentative title)' draws more attention with talented creative teams at home and abroad. Broadway director Jerry Mitchell, composer Helen Park, writer Cho Min-hyung, and music director Won Mi-sol are expected to be the first signal of CJ ENM's original IP global creative musical, which is drawing attention not only in Korea but also globally.




Musicals 'Dancing Queen' will be directed by Broadway's leading director and choreographer 'Jerry Mitchell', who has been performing iconic musicals on major stages around the world for about 40 years, including Broadway, West End, Toronto, Australia, Korea, Japan, and Germany, including six Tony Awards winner 'King's Boots' and musicals 'Hairsprada'. The music is accompanied by Helen Park, a New York-based composer from Korea who is the first Asian woman to be nominated for the Tony Awards for the musical 『KPOP』, as a new composer who is drawing attention from all over the world beyond Broadway. The script will be written by Cho Min-hyung, who wrote Korean creative musicals 'Let Me Fly', 'Chami', and 'Myeongdong Romance'.

The movie starring Uhm Jung-hwa and Hwang Jung-min was born as a dancing queen musical...K-musical, global evaluation. Once again
Directed by Jerry Mitchell and composed by Helen Park, who is on the crew of the musical "Dancing Queen". a musical director of Won Mi-sol. Photo = Christopher de Vargas and Alina Tan (CJ ENM
The movie "Dancing Queen" released in Korea in 2012 tells the story of Jeonghwa (Um Jung-hwa), who played the role of "Sinchon Madonna", who dreams again after escaping from the confines of her family and society by chance. The work, which is the wife of her husband (Hwang Jung-min), who ran as a candidate for mayor of Seoul, and pleasantly depicts her dual life as a leader of the Dancing Queens, was well received and successful. Musical 'Dancing Queen' has no expiration date in the original 'DreamsBased on the theme of ", we will draw the stories of those who have begun to dream again. In particular, it is expected to give courage and hope to challenge someone who forgets their dreams again through a message that anyone can sympathize with, transcending time, culture, gender and age.

Ye Joo-yeol, director of CJ ENM's performance business division, said "As we have been leading the diversity of Korean musicals and knocking on the door of the mainstream of musicals early on, we will continue to present original works that can be competitive in Korea as well as the world stage by utilizing CJ ENM's various IPs."Musical "Dancing Queen" will be the first start of a full-fledged global expansion in the musical business " As the theme "There is no expiration date for dreams" is a subject that anyone can sympathize with, I think it has the potential to resonate deeply with audiences not only in Korea but also around the world," he said.




CJ ENM's first original IP global creative musical 'Dancing Queen (tentative title)', which has selected more than 400 rich IPs such as movies and dramas and continued planning and development for trans media, will complete scripts and music in 2026 and hold workshops with the aim of opening Korean performances in 2027.

Meanwhile, CJ ENM exported simultaneous licenses to China and Japan for the first time as a small theater creative musical through the musical 「Finding Kim Jong-wook」, which is considered the beginning of the Korean Wave musical, and served as a One Asia market gate connecting Korea, China, and Japan to revitalize the overseas market. He also contributed to expanding the contact point between the work and the audience by producing domestic performances of the musical 'Maybe Happy Ending', which became the first Korean to win six Tony Awards from 2020 to 2024. In addition, it has established itself as a global content platform by continuously participating as a co-producer in Broadway and West End works in Korea.






This article was translated by Naver AI translator.