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Park plays with Man-su’s crippling pride, which keeps him mopey and unwilling to consider part-time work.

The second and arguably more interesting notion Park plays with is Man-su’s crippling pride, which keeps him mopey and unwilling to consider part-time work.

But “Bodkin,” created by Jez Scharf and executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, among others, takes more inspiration from mopey foreign murder shows.

Among his many signature roles: a lovesick swain so dazzled by his beloved that he moves as if in a dream, in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s “Roméo et Juliette”; an electric-limbed loner in a hoodie in Marco Goecke’s punishing contemporary solo “Mopey”; a jazzy curlicue of a man awaiting his own New Orleans funeral in Twyla Tharp’s “Waiting at the Station”; a highflying sailor, all looseness and young joy, in Jerome Robbins’ “Fancy Free.”

Reflecting on favorite roles, Moore singled out many, but noted that “Mopey” was the work that established him with PNB audiences.