Since watching the musical "Bouquet for Alginon", Xiaozhuang has quickly entered the pit and become a loyal fan of the Shanghai performing arts world. In a short period of time, she watched 50 consecutive plays in this dense theater group, and when the frequency was at its highest, she had to punch four or five times a week.
Enthusiastic local audiences like Xiaozhuang, the big world of acting abounds, and the foreign audiences who sit on trains, fly, and drag suitcases to watch the play, the big world of acting is also everywhere.
On January 15th, at the special event of "Performing Arts World, Better Looking in The Present Dynasty - 2022 New Year drama", the Office of the Leading Group of the Great World of Performing Arts issued the "Honorary Audience Commemorative Certificate" to Xiaozhuang, who watched 50 plays and Xiao Yu, who watched 47 plays, to thank them for their continuous support for the big world of performing arts.
Audience Xiaozhuang and Xiaoyu were awarded the "Honorary Audience Commemorative Certificate".
At the same time, the event released the specifications for the use of the Big World nameplate of the Performing Arts, and 10 units, including shanghai grand theater, shanghai concert hall, shanghai cultural square, shanghai tian toad Yifu stage, Shanghai Lyceum theater, Shanghai children's art theater, Shanghai China grand theater, Shanghai big world, Asia Tower "Star Space", Lincoln Jazz Shanghai Center, etc., were the first to obtain the nameplate and certificate of the big world of performing arts.
The first batch of 10 units were awarded the nameplate and certificate of the Great World of Performing Arts.
The awarding of the Big World nameplate for performing arts is the recognition of the identity of the fixed performance venue in the three years since the establishment of the big world brand of performing arts, and it is also a consensus for the development of the core demonstration area to further enhance the influence and communication power of the big world brand of performing arts and build the core demonstration area of the Asian capital of performing arts. It is worth mentioning that the nameplate is not a "lifelong system", and the fixed place where the nameplate is awarded needs to be hung in a conspicuous position, actively participate in various activities in the performing arts world, and enhance the reputation and influence of the performing arts world.
Recently, in accordance with the standards of famous troupes, premiere launches and market word-of-mouth, Shanghai selected 394 key projects from more than 900 more than 3,000 performances to form Shanghai's 2022 annual "performance calendar" and release the schedule to the public in advance on a monthly basis. Among them, the performances in the performing arts world area account for about 70%, which means that there will be plays every day and all year round.
There is drama every day
Located in the core area of 1.5 square kilometers around Shanghai People's Square, with 25 professional theaters and 46 licensed "New Spaces for Performing Arts", Performing Arts World is the largest and most dense theater group in China.
Drama, opera, opera, dance drama, musicals, concerts, a rich variety of art categories rise and fall here. In addition to the continuous dramas, good plays, and popular plays, recently, resident performances have also risen in the big world of performing arts, from the dance drama "The Eternal Electric Wave" and "Crested Ibis", to the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber", the National Wind Music Scene "Sea Life Folk Music", the hot performances have continued, and the upsurge of watching and punching cards has been set off.
As a loyal fan, "post-00s" Xiaozhuang has watched 50 plays in the big world of acting. Not long ago, she was in the Asian building "Star Space", brushing five or six times in a row to perform the musical "Santa Lucia". In the past two days, she turned to shanghai cultural square and rushed to the front line of the popular musical "Fan Letter", and quickly decided to brush it again.
"If I like it, I buy tickets for the front row, and if I just listen to it, I buy tickets for the back row." Different seats, the perspective of watching the play is also different. "Some people don't understand, is it necessary to watch this multi-drama?" XiaoZhuang thinks very clearly, just like some people like to watch movies, some people like to watch sports games, and she also regards watching musicals as a common hobby, as a part of daily life. What's more, as a student of Tongji University, she can also buy student tickets, and even buy subsidy tickets unique to the big world of performing arts.
Xiaozhuang enjoys the joy of watching drama every day. When she was a sophomore, she deliberately chose a major that was a bit in line with musical theater - cultural industry management. After discussing with her supervisor, she also set the theme of her academic year thesis as "An Analysis of the Development of Environmental Resident Musicals in China", hoping to thoroughly study this new field that she had been intimately exposed to.
"Post-90s" Xiaoyu watched 47 plays in the big world of acting. Unlike Xiao Zhuang, who watches the drama with a task, Xiao Yu regards watching the drama as a decompression Dafa, hoping that after busy and tired work, he will temporarily forget the troubles of life, hide in the joys and sorrows of the stage, and experience different life encounters.
Xiaoyu is an advertiser, and the high intensity of work pressure makes her prefer a relaxed atmosphere and a musical that can bring happiness after watching. "Like 'Apollonia', as long as I grab the ticket, I will go through all the difficulties to see it that day." Xiaoyu's company is on Hanzhong Road, and you can come to the big world of performing arts by taking two subway stops, enjoying the joy and emotion of 7:30 pm. After the performance, she will return to the company to continue to work overtime as a "worker".
"Two hours made me completely forget about the trouble at work, and when I went back, I looked at these cases again, and it was much more pleasing to the eye and more motivated." I hope that the big world of performing arts can bring us more excellent works in the future, and use the people-friendly ticket price and affinity art activities to attract all walks of life into the theater and experience the diverse charm of drama like me. She said.
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Everyone has a play
In the big world of acting, the audience enjoys the joy of watching the drama every day, and for the theater and the actors, the big world of acting also has a turning meaning, and everyone has a play.
The Asia Tower "Star Space" is now one of the most sought after performance venues for young people in the world of performing arts. From an idle office building to a building with the highest performance density in Shanghai and even in the country, its success is inseparable from the encouragement of the performing arts world to enter the excellent local original dramas.
"On August 28, 2020, Apollonia began its first residency at Asia Tower, which now has 16 resident theaters with an average of more than 500 performances per month, including noon, afternoon, evening and midnight. At the Asia Tower on weekends, there are spectators entering and leaving almost every moment. ”
Ruan Hao, head of the "Star Space" of asia building, revealed that this year, the "Star Space" plans to double the existing small theater, and more than 40 plays in the same period will be performed at the same time, so as to incubate more outstanding producers, actors and stage workers with "daily performance".
Musical theater actor Zhou Shiqi benefited from this. Because of the epidemic, his job has been suspended for nearly half a year, and he is ready to change careers, and even interviewed for an office clerk job, but now, he has become a contracted actor for a good play, performing more than a hundred times on the stage of "Apollonia", and is one of the most important casts.
In addition to providing opportunities for newcomers to musical theater, the world of performing arts also brings a stage for a large number of outstanding young opera talents to "break through".
Since 2015, the "Little Theater Opera Festival" has been held in the Yangtze River Theater, which is in the center of the performing arts world, for 7 consecutive years, and the opera performance artists who have won the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, the Wenhua Award and the Magnolia Award have frequently appeared with newly created or adapted high-quality opera works, creating brilliance for this "drama pier", and a large number of young opera creation and performance talents have also incubated works through this platform, gaining the favor and praise of the audience and experts.
Gu Gu, secretary of the party committee and president of Shanghai Xiqu Art Center, lamented that every applause won by xiqu people on the stage not only depends on their own self-improvement and hard work, but also on the meticulous support and care of professional institutions such as the great world of performing arts.
She said: "The landing of the 'national brand' art exhibition in Shanghai is naturally in line with the strategic positioning of the performing arts world to develop a gathering platform for the performing arts industry. When I communicate with opera artists from all over the country, they are very envious of Shanghai's such a good platform. Excellent literary and artistic works need to gain vitality in performances, and such a platform as the big world of performing arts is to help the literary and art academies to seize more opportunities to be close to the audience, so that the two major central work of the literary and art academies - artistic creation and talent training, together with the audience cultivation into a virtuous circle, further consolidate the brand foundation of the literary and art academies, and its profound significance is not only reflected in the present, but will appear for a long time in the future. ”