Nanta Show

After a morning of cooking, I went to see Nanta at the Myeongdong theatre with Jack and Daisy. It was a Sogang reunion. Awwww.....I missed you guys! Glad we are all back in the same city again.

And so....as a late birthday celebration for Jack, we all went to see Nanta. Tonight's performance was a special event. Usually the show times are at 2pm, 5pm, and 8pm, but tonight, the show time was at 11pm with games, prizes, Polaroid photo shoots, and free food and drinks beforehand celebrating Japanese culture.

Nanta is a long-running, mostly non-verbal musical set in a kitchen. The audience is taken through the course of an evening where chefs must prepare the food for a wedding banquet. You will experience the wonders of a variety of "ingredients" including song, dance, lots of percussion using kitchen utensils and knives, magic tricks, and audience participation. 

This show is definitely a "tourist trap" as such is so often named. As a music major, I appreciated the integration of percussion with kitchen utensils and following along with the "rhythm" found through cooking, but I was a little turned off by all the "audience participation" acts and gimmicks. Although it was definitely NOT up to the hype and standard I had assumed or hoped for (I was imagining something more like STOMP! or Blue Man Group but with a kitchen setting), I am happy to have seen it, and now I won't leave Korea regretting I had never gone.