The leading concert of the original musical "Tianzhong Yongcai" "Xu Youcheng's Diary" was successfully premiered in TheBoxx City Park in Shanghai recently. Hundreds of tickets sold out in 1 minute.
A series of works by Lin Xi'er and Chen Xingchi, graduates of the Central Academy of Drama, and Wang Qiwei, keyboardist of the Celinete band, "Heavenly Yongcai" consists of two musicals and a concert version, and the story revolves around Xu Youcheng, editor-in-chief of poetry magazines, Wu Yong, a wandering poet, and those around them. In 2020, "Tianzhongyongcai Lakeside" participated in the online invitation exhibition of "Micro Drama" at the China Grand Theatre in Shanghai in the form of a 17-minute fragment performance, and the work received the attention of the audience, thus having a foundation for further incubation.
In the eyes of the creator, "poetry" is an excellent creative element of Chinese musical theater, and modern and contemporary poetry is not only "beautiful and lyrical", but also shows a more diverse style, which can be organically combined with the performance form of musical theater. The first work of the incubation program, the first concert "Xu Youcheng's Diary", tells the story of Xu Youcheng's past with the poet Wu Yong from the first-person perspective, and the 80-minute performance contains 13 original songs with different styles.
In addition to the content factor, the early version of the concert "Xu Youcheng's Diary" quickly sold out, which is directly related to its incubation method. The creators of "Tianzhong Yongcai" cooperated with Perfect World's new interest social app "ZAO PARK" to become the No. 001 project of its art co-creation project "ZAO for All". The main creative team invites the audience to join the production process of the work, and every audience member can become a "producer for all". The selection of the cast, the type and design of the surrounding materials, the online and offline publicity methods, and the relevant warm-up activities, which are usually only determined by the crew, are open to the audience for discussion. The audience can participate in the nomination, discussion and voting session, and can also "urge" the creator to supervise the creation of the play. The main creative team will simultaneously announce the necessary information and problems in the production of the play, and complete the decision with the producer.
In the 4 months of creation time, "Tianzhong Yongcai" attracted more than 1,000 "national producers" to join, and in the production content of the crew such as live performance planning, cast selection and visual design, it is rich in the creativity and painstaking efforts continuously contributed by the "national producers". "Xu Youcheng's Diary" also published six tracks and some content paragraphs in the work step by step through social media, so that the audience can gradually deepen their impression of the work and be more willing to come to the scene to watch the performance. According to reports, "Tianzhong Yongcai" will continue to be created in the future, and a more complete version of the story and performance will be put on the stage.