Wild Grey is a Korean musical that opened in June, 2021. It follows the interactions between Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred “Boise” Douglas, and Robert Ross starting from around when Oscar met Boise to a bit after Oscar’s imprisonment. It’s called Wild Grey though, because it also mixes elements of the Picture of Dorian Gray as they pertain to certain characters.
The actors in the role of Oscar Wilde! They’re 에녹, 정민, and 박민성. 에녹’s Oscar looked at Boise and said “I can fix him” and failed spectacularly. 정민’s Oscar looked at Ross with puppy dog eyes, said “I know what I’m doing. Trust me.”, and proceeded to not know what he was doing. 박민성’s Oscar really has “I’m gonna ruin my life for this guy I met once” *sprints and explodes* energy.
The Lord Alfred “Boise” Douglas actors! They’re 박준휘, 정휘, and 백동현. 박준휘’s Boise has “looks like a cinnamon roll but will kill you” energy. 정휘’s Boise looked at Ross and said “try me, bitch”. 백동현’s Boise will look at Oscar with the most innocent look on his face one second and then sauntered past Ross while brushing up against him just enough so it’s annoying but not enough to be sure it was intentional. (Honestly could see any of these actors playing Dorian Gray in that musical, but especially 박준휘, hence why he’s Dorian’s voice claim in my head ;])
Finally, the Robert Ross actors! They’re 배나라, 홍승안, and 안지환. 배나라’s Ross just wants to protect Oscar at all costs. 홍승안’s Ross is the “this is fine” meme. 안지환’s Ross has “I wanna kill Boise but that would make Oscar sad, so I won’t” energy.
The song most easy to find on yt is Salomé, which is the song where Ross meets Boise for the first time and the three discuss Oscar’s current wip, the play Salomé. It sets up Ross’ dislike of Boise, Oscar’s absolute infatuation, and Boise’s sly personality. It’s also one of the places where tPoDG is referenced, once when Oscar gives Boise a portrait of him, revealing Oscar’s feelings for Boise, and once more at the end when Boise quotes Lord Henry: “The only way to get rid of a temptation, is to yield to it.” Overall, the song’s got a funky beat and dance break and it’s fun to watch Boise and Ross essentially square up.
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Another song I love from this musical is Dirty Blood, which ties in the backstory of Dorian with Boise’s backstory, tying Boise and Dorian together and showing how Boise sees himself in Dorian.
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The framing of the musical is that most of it is a flashback post Oscar’s imprisonment before Boise confronts Ross since Ross tried to publish Oscar’s letters to Boise. The confrontation is sung about in the song You Weren’t There. Ross accuses Boise of being the reason why everything went to shit for Oscar and that he wasn’t at Oscar’s trial when that was all Oscar wanted. Boise argues back that Oscar would understand why he couldn’t be there and that he couldn’t be blamed for what happened when it was Oscar’s decision.
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Overall, the takeaway from the musical most people get is either “Oscar wtf, Boise you bitch, Ross im so sorry” or “Oscar sadge, Boise sadge, Ross sadge, everybody sadge”
Edit: I FORGOT TO MENTION all images are pulled from the Wild Grey official twt acc
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