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Nanta hits 10 million in ticket sales
"Nanta," the popular cooking-themed percussive performance, has surpassed the 10 million mark in ticket sales, a first for a Korean performance. / Yonhap
By Kim Bo-eun
“Nanta,” the popular cooking-themed percussive performance, has surpassed the 10 million mark in ticket sales, a first for a Korean performance, its production company said.
Nanta, first staged in October 1997 in Seoul, is a non-verbal performance based on the rhythms of samulnori, a traditional Korean style of percussive performance involving four musicians.
Some 10,085,000 had viewed the performance in Korea and abroad, PMC Production said on Friday.
Nanta portrays four chefs preparing food for a traditional wedding ceremony. The stars of the show appear to use their “cooking tools” as percussive instruments.
The 10,000,000th person to view the performance was a Chinese tourist at Chungjeongno Nanta Theater in Seoul on Dec. 29. The person will be invited to receive a gift at a special commemoration event on Jan. 26.
A publication event for a book compiling the 17-year history of Nanta will also be held that day.
In all the Nanta has been staged 31,290 times in 289 cities in 51 countries.
The performance has sold out every year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the United Kingdom; and it became the first among Asian productions to perform on Broadway.