Hi all! Sorry it took so long to write this! I think I was going through after-musical depression. Anyway, I was able to go to Sunggyu’s first performance of ‘All Shook Up’ and I really enjoyed it! It was like a romcom musical and because of the popular Elvis songs, it was quite enjoyable for me. To be honest, I liked this one much more than ‘In the Heights’ but I think it’s cause I relate to this one more. I’m a rock girl at heart and my favorite movie is ‘Grease’ so… Anyway, I didn’t have a great seat since I wasn’t originally planning to go to this showing, so my view wasn’t the best. It was a small theater though so any view was pretty decent. There were lots of fan interaction between the cast and the audience. There were times where some characters walked around the front and there was even a part where Elvis comes down the stairs and serenades and kisses the hand of a lucky fan in the front while teaching another character how to win the ladies over lol.

Let’s just start with the look of everything first. Once again, it’s a pretty small theater so the set was quite small as well. Actually, if you go to the Playbill Facebook page that Infinite’s official twitter tweeted, you can see a condensed version of the first half of the musical. Just that alone can give you a good sense of the set design, costuming and overall acting. I’ve also seen some clips of the original English versions online. It seems to be pretty much the exact same thing except the main character Chad’s name became Elvis in this one lol. The whole goofiness is also kept throughout as well. Anyway, we can’t talk about looks without talking about Gyu. THAT HAIR THO… AM I RIGHT AM I RIGHT. Ugh… I knew that was gonna get to me. Even though I sat in the back, I could see that Gyu was wearing a lot of makeup too lol. You can kinda see how dark they make his eyes in the fancam pics of him leaving the theater. It’s nice seeing him in those leather jackets though. Every time he came out in a new outfit the whole crowd would swoon lol.

Speaking of swooning. Because this is based off ‘The Twelfth Night’ and the main girl character is pretty much swooning over the main guy character the whole time, it seems like the audience really connected with her lol. We would all swoon anytime she touched him or got close to him. I could even feel the hurt radiating off the audience when he would reject her and stuff. I don’t know, I mean all entertainment is supposed to make the audience feel what the artist is doing… but this feeling of sadness and desperate love really hit home for fangirls I think… or maybe that was just me… Aaaanyway, there was so much skinship dude. They even changed some parts from the practice video to add more skinship. Like when Natalie would sing and time was paused, she would kinda outline his butt or cling onto his leg. There were lots of inch-away-from-the-face-talking/singing/staring as well. Oh… everyone brace yourselves. There was also kissing. Two kisses in fact. Two real kisses. I died. Everyone died. I died again. Twice.

Mooooving on, the best thing about musicals is that you can really hear their voices without lots of MR. His voice is so beautiful. I can’t. It really suited the rock theme too. There were lots of silly scenes and Gyu did really well. It’s really hilarious to see him acting out situations we’d never get to see in real life. He really played up the pompous arrogant side the character has. It was very much the bad boy that’s still innocent but you wanna be with kinda style. I really wanna see him in a serious character or like as a true bad guy in his next role. I don’t know, I wanna see what else he can bring to the table. Can I love him anymore? Probably not. But once again, I thought that before seeing him and totally proved myself wrong… again.

I’d have to say that what surprised me is the scale of this show. It was very small. Compared to ‘In the Heights’ and a couple other shows I’ve been to, the theater was small, there wasn’t a lot of merchandise, I haven’t seen any ads besides the ones at the venue or anything. In the big scheme of things, this is a really small production. It just so happens to be a big thing in my, and I’m sure your, life as well lol. Another thing that kinda made my heart hurt (and when I mean kinda I mean my heart was crying enough tears to make a new ocean) was watching Gyu move. I don’t know if it’s just me overreacting and exaggerating but it still looked like he was… not in pain necessarily but maybe had a slight discomfort with his ankle. I’m not sure if it was just my fangirl love for him and his health but he was moving… not normally?? He just didn’t move in the same way that I feel like I’m used to seeing. Maybe it was part of the choreography or maybe that day he tweaked it so it was bad, or maybe I’m making it up in my head, but I hope he really rests on his days off. That boy deserves it. Musical. MC. Normal Infinite activities. This boy has his hands in all the pots right now.

Anyway, I feel like there isn’t too much to say really. The story is great, music is great, sticks to the original pretty well, his voice is ugh, his face is ugh, he’s ugh ugh. I’m sorry, I feel like this isn’t the best fan account I’ve written… If I think of any other details, I’ll definitely let you all know. Or if anyone has any questions please feel free to leave us an ask! Between the facebook vid and the practice vid, they actually give fans a huge peek into the musical! I definitely recommend watching both if you haven’t already!!!