In 2020, Musical theater actor, senior UP master, fuzhou road young creator Xu Junshuo once invited everyone online to "Enjoy the Great World of Performing Arts", he successively walked into the Chinese Grand Theatre, the People's Stage, SAIC Shanghai Culture Square and Shanghai Great World in the Big World of Performing Arts, and recorded four "Mysterious Theater" theme videos from the perspective of actors to attract the audience into the theater. This weekend, he came to Shanghai Big World, opened the "Performing Arts Map", and led the audience to "roam" the big world of performing arts together.
Named in 2018, "Performing Arts World" is a performing arts agglomeration and industrial development zone with People's Square as the core area, radiating throughout Huangpu District and even downtown Shanghai. There are 22 professional theaters in Huangpu Area, and 38 have been awarded the "New Space for Performing Arts". Among them, within 1.5 square kilometers of People's Square, there are 21 theaters and performance spaces in normal operation, with a density of 14 per square kilometer, which is the largest and highest density theater group in the country.
In the opening retro show "Shanghai Song and Dance", Xu Junshuo wore retro-style costumes for the first time to challenge singing and dancing, bringing the audience back to the old Shanghai years. Xu Junshuo's old classmate and friend Xu Zehui, as the host of the sharing meeting, took the atmosphere of the whole venue to a high point as soon as he took the stage.
On December 11th and 12th, Xu Junshuo's music sharing meeting "Worry-free Photo Studio" theme activity was staged in Shanghai World "Performing Arts Night Market". The enthusiastic audience, including the outstanding performers of the 2020 Performing Arts World "Sound moving Yangtze River Delta" event, listened to him share theater stories, interactively sing musical theater songs, and promote musical theater culture.
This event drew a successful end to the 2020 "Leyou Performing Arts Big World" activity, so that the audience doubled down on looking forward to the series of activities in 2021 into the Big World of Performing Arts!
On the eve of the music sharing meeting, Xu Junshuo's first original EP "LOOP" was officially released, and the 4 singles perfectly interpreted the EP concept of "starting and ending": life flows back and forth, and the story begins and ends. "Getting up is a difficult thing", "Don't let me bear it, I'm just a dog", "Inverted", and "Healing" represent 4 different emotions, echoing the music arrangement in content.
This music sharing meeting coincided with Xu Junshuo's birthday, and the appearance of the highly confidential and mysterious guests before the event brought a lot of surprises to Junshuo, and for the audience, such a dimensional-breaking guest in the same frame is also an unexpected gain. Zhu Fu and Yan Zhongjie, who are also musical actors, are junshuo's friends, and the three recommend their favorite musical theater songs to the audience, and their teammates Zheng Qiyuan and He Liangchen, who fought with Junshuo in "Sound into People's Hearts 2", transformed into black knights, and sent blessings on the spot. Grandma, the ultimate guest, appeared at the end of the sharing meeting, wrote a handwritten letter to Junshuo and celebrated the birthday ceremony, and fixed the event in a warm moment.
On the road of promoting musical theater culture, more musicians like Xu Junshuo who adhere to the original intention of music and constantly create, adhere to it together, form a joint force, and believe that they will lead more audiences into the theater and fall in love with musical theater!
Reporter / Gao Lei
Edited / Gao Lei