Xinmin Evening News (reporter Zhu Yuan) In 2021, when the epidemic situation is changeable and the performing arts market has not yet fully stabilized, the Shanghai private academy group has taken the lead and invested in creation with strong enthusiasm. According to the incomplete statistics of the Shanghai Performance Industry Association, nearly 90 private theater troupes have created and performed nearly 150 plays and about 50 small drama program works throughout the year, with a total of about 9,000 performances.
Pictured: Shanghai opera "Early Spring" Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai photo
In this batch of original plays, there are Shanghai opera, drama, musical, burlesque, etc., with rich varieties and high quality, and have obtained good reputation and gratifying box office revenue in Shanghai, the Yangtze River Delta and even the national performance market. This year, the "2021 Shanghai Excellent Private Theater Group Red Theme Drama to the Yangtze River Delta Publicity and Promotion Tour Series Activities" carefully selected 5 outstanding works from all the "red" plays exhibited by the Shanghai Private Theater Group to participate. Focusing on creating a rich atmosphere for the centenary of the founding of the party, the Municipal Performance Association has carefully designed a series of activities to "trace the roots and trace the source" as the lead and organize a series of activities to "return to the place where the story takes place to perform".
The Shanghai Wenhui Shanghai Opera Troupe staged the red-themed Shanghai opera "Early Spring" based on Roushi in Ninghai, and the families of Roushi's descendants and hometown audiences gathered in the theater to re-see the "heroic" revolutionary deeds. Immediately afterward, the Shanghai Xindongyuan Shanghai Opera Troupe rushed to Changshu, Jiangsu Province, with the red classic Shanghai opera "Ludang Tinder", to perform. Through the creation and performance of red theme plays, commemorating the martyrs and looking for inspiration, it reflects the social responsibility of Shanghai's outstanding private academies.
Pictured: Shanghai opera "Ludang Tinder" Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai photographed
The New Dongyuan Shanghai Opera Troupe has opened up a new performance operation model this year, not only successfully excavating the local red cultural theme, creating a large-scale Shanghai opera "Flying Over the No. 7 Bridge", but also bringing the performance to the Huangpu River cruise ship with a new idea, creating a cruise ship with "Shanghai Opera Performance Characteristics", expanding the new way of cultural and tourism integration, and also refreshing the new characteristics of Shanghai opera performance.
The "happy twist" of the same operating model of "diversified" has always been the leader of the box office, and has reached the "high efficiency" of performance revenue in just a few years, even if affected by the epidemic, this year's annual income has reached 118 million yuan. Recently, the troupe has opened up a new mode of operation of the new space for "resident" performing arts. The resident performance of "Crazy Barbershop" with "twist" style has set a good result of 4 million yuan at the box office in just one month.
Photo: "Crazy Barbershop" resident performance
Even in the wave of hot musicals, "The Orphan of Zhao" is also a "hit". The play has basically realized the plan of 50 performances a year, and many fans have brushed two or even three brushes, describing it as "the ceiling of China's original musical". After watching the play, they revisited and studied the classic texts and historical materials, and left behind a series of philosophical commentaries. The audience's spontaneous retracement of traditional Chinese culture is far more pleasing to director Xu Jun than the box office success: "In the past five years, we have been exploring how to tell Chinese stories well with musicals, so that the light of reason, justice and kindness can illuminate people's lives, so that the Chinese civilization and Chinese spirit that have lasted for thousands of years can be passed on from generation to generation." This drama can touch the hearts of young people and let them go to the traditional culture to trace their roots, which shows that the effort has paid off. ”
Pictured: Musical "The Orphan of Zhao"
The activities such as "excellent repertoire 'incubation'" carried out in 2021 have significantly improved the creative quality of a number of private theater troupes, and also laid a good foundation for the implementation of the strategic goal of "excellent quality products". When the Macao Performing Arts Association visited, it said enviously: "Shanghai's 'incubation' mechanism is awesome. In the process of creation, there are experts to guide, while performing while grinding, and constantly optimize the creation, this practice is of great enlightenment significance to improve the level of industrialization of performing arts. ”