The musical "Jiwu Rental" is staged at the Beijing Century Theatre, which shows an alternative Broadway

Beijing Daily News (Reporter Han Xuan) "Yoshiya Rental" is a musical based on Puccini's opera "Bohemians", and from October 11 to 21, this musical about the lives of young artists will be staged at the Century Theatre. Although the show has limited public recognition, the introducer hopes to feed back the original musical creation: "If young musical theater lovers can see a diversified repertoire at their doorstep, it will play a very important role in the development of original musicals." ”

Another of The Broadway musicals, Yoshinya Rental is adapted from Puccini's classic opera Bohemians, which tells the story of a group of young people living in New York. These young people live in rented houses, they live in embarrassment, some are still sick and even terminally ill, but they always insist on their dreams in the face of adversity, and make unremitting efforts to compete with a difficult life.

This musical confronts social reality and brings a variety of socially sensitive issues to the broadway stage. Prior to this, the big productions represented by "Phantom of the Opera" and the Disney musicals represented by "The Lion King" dominated the world on Broadway, and the emergence of "Yoshiya Rental" opened a new era of musical theater. In terms of performance form, the play has no luxurious costumes, no expensive sets, and does not need a large cast, but it has won awards such as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award.

Musically, the show is also credited with "redefining Broadway." There are 28 pieces of music in different styles, ranging from retro jazz "Seasons of Love", rockpunk "Rent", and mixed style "La Vie Boheme". "These young artists in the play are very poor, and they feel that although they have nothing materially, they are spiritually rich." Logan Farina, the actor of roger in the play, believes that these songs express the idea that "we have our own dreams, our own ways of interpreting life and the world, and we don't blindly follow." ”

Although "Jiwu Rental" has been born for more than 20 years, the general Chinese audience does not know much about it, but has a large number of fans in colleges and universities, and musical theater clubs of Universities such as Tsinghua University, Fudan University, and Zhejiang University have rehearsed and performed this play. "That's why we wanted to introduce this musical." Jin Huanhuan, project director of the introduction of the play Fangju Orange Musical, said that China's musical theater market has just started, and each introduction of a play actually has to consider many aspects, "Most Chinese audiences' understanding of musical theater is limited to four major musicals such as "Cat", "Phantom of the Opera" and "Les Misérables", but we want to present more forms of musicals. ”

Jin Huanhuan introduced that the introduction of the play is not only beneficial to the musical theater consumer market, but also has a very important significance for the creation of original musicals. "Why are Korean original musicals developing so well? For creators, if they have to go overseas to study mature musicals, it will be very expensive, and if young creators can see excellent plays at their schools, this will be very helpful for the nourishment of original plays. Jin Huanhuan said that this is the purpose they hope to achieve by introducing "Yoshiya Rental". In the future, they will also consider promoting the combination of local original forces and overseas creative teams, and cooperate to present the partial appearance of a musical in the early stage, such as first stage a concert version, and then continue to create a full version according to market feedback, "This is a very common incubation model overseas, which is conducive to the development of original plays." ”