The 20th anniversary tour of the original Broadway rock musical "Yoshiya Rental" landed in Shanghai. The New York Times once praised the play as "an exhilarating iconic rock musical that gives a glimpse into the future of American musical theater." What is the sacredness of this highly acclaimed drama?
The musical "Yoshiya Rental" can be called a theatrical legend on Broadway. In 1996, the musical "Yoshiya Rental" premiered. In more than 20 years, Broadway has performed 5,600 times, and more than 12,000 performances have been performed worldwide.
Not only the scale of the performance, the musical "Yoshiya Rental" won many awards such as the Pulitzer Theater Award, the Tony Award, the New York Theater Forum Award, etc., and is the most awarded play in the history of musical theater. To say that the musical "Yoshiya Rental" marks the dawn of a new era of Broadway musicals is definitely not a boast. How, is it a capital letter?
The musical "Yoshiya Rental" is about a group of young tenants living in New York City. Some of them are struggling filmmakers, some are musicians who are addicted to drugs, some are teachers who teach colleges and universities, some are street percussionists, some are Harvard-graduated lawyers, and even they have multiple personalities and multiple identities. In New York, a city made of reinforced concrete, they live in a few square meters of cottages, but they are also working hard for their dreams and lives...
These young people are poor and sick, and in the eyes of the general public, they are inferior, even dirty. But on their life path, their mutual companionship and support have not only fulfilled themselves, but also achieved others. Who is not like this, each embracing his own ambitions, working tirelessly for the ideal, the surface is brilliant to the extreme, but sometimes there is a dark underground life.
The musical "Yoshiya Rental" uses music to show the helplessness of the current young people, from rock to folk, from blues to tango, music knows no borders, music is directly in the depths of the soul, so it will become a classic. The tension of life that erupts in the adversity of the musical "Yoshiya Rental" affects a generation. Yet Larson, the writer who created this great play, did not see the day when his work was brilliant. The night before the performance, Larson died suddenly. This is also the biggest regret of this work.
This time, the 20th anniversary tour of "Jiwu Rental" landed in Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu, so hurry up and seize the opportunity to watch this rock musical that "speaks for young people".