With the Spring Festival approaching, 89-year-old Lu Ruiying, wearing a red sweater and down vest, greeted She Meimei, vice president of Shanghai Xiqu Art Center, Liang Hongjun, director of Shanghai Yue Theatre, and Xia Xia, general manager of Wanping Theatre. They made a special trip to send New Year greetings.
From the Shanghai Yue Theater to Lu Ruiying's home is only more than 300 meters. In June last year, Lu Ruiying was awarded the "50 Years of Glory in the Party" commemorative medal, and Liang Hongjun sent the medal to her home. At this meeting, Liang Hongjun said, "You are fatter than Summer, and your complexion and skin are better." Lu Ruiying smiled and waved his hand, "I don't move much, I'm fat, I have time to go downstairs, I can eat and sleep." ”
As the former director of shanghai Yue Theatre, Lu Ruiying is always concerned about the development of Yue opera, "the unit is busy, the students are busy, and the students' hair is white." Due to the impact of the epidemic, she walked around less than in previous years, "watching TV at home, watching more than a few times, and turning off those that are not good." The family also opened a Douyin account for Lu Ruiying, although the update frequency is not high, it is still popular with fans.
Hearing that at the end of the year, the Shanghai Yue Theater performance wrapped up several theaters in the room, especially the resident performance of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the audience went up to 93 years old, down to 3 and a half years old, and the audience watched more than ten times in a row, and the resident performance of "Dream of the Red Chamber" on the fifth day of the new year will begin, Lu Ruiying was very pleased, she said, "To take the play out, the play can stand; the troupe is not afraid of busy, just afraid of nothing to do." ”
In 2022, Shanghai Yue Theatre will take the performance as the central link, create a variety of theme content, with the theme of the four seasons of "spring, summer, autumn and winter", and perform the classic plays "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "Xi Xiang Ji" and "Home" at the Wanping Theater, launch 3-4 mesozoic actors with the "Shengshi Yuezhang" brand, incubate the "Future Star Program" project in cooperation with the Chinese Grand Theatre, and also have yuyuan and maritime pear garden performances throughout the year.
The Shanghai Yue Theatre will also promote its masterpieces to the whole country. According to the plan, in April, Peking University and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Xi Xiang Ji" tour, in May "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" Greater Bay Area tour, in June "Zhen Huan" Eight Fujian tour, in June the new drama "Good Eight Lian" is expected to meet the audience, in August to carry out "commemoration of Yue opera grandmaster Wang Wenjuan series performances", "commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Yue opera grandmaster Yuan Xuefen series of performances" from March throughout the year, october focusing on the artists of the academy, inviting Fujian, Zhejiang, Peers in Jiangsu and other places have launched no less than 8 to 12 famous drama series performances. Lu Ruiying laughed and said, "In the past, the performance was relatively simple, but now I have more knowledge and higher requirements." ”
Before visiting Lu Ruiying, the Yue Theater has just finished the assessment of young actors and held a symposium to listen to the needs of young people for business training and performance. Hearing that young actors were studying the classic play "He Wenxiu" under the guidance of Zhao Zhigang, everyone also proposed that they could learn Kunqu opera, vocal music, and feed back Yue opera performances, Lu Ruiying nodded happily, "Study, you can't be sloppy and mixed up." ”
After listening to the annual plan of this year's Yue Theatre, she advised everyone, "It's easy to say, it's hard to do." The script is the key, the development of Yue opera needs more creative personnel, abandoning the view of the portal, editing, directing, and acting are very important. In the past, there were thirty or forty people in the creative team of Yue Theatre, but now there are fewer people, and we need to realize that Yue Opera has an open spirit, and the excellence of various industries can be absorbed, and it is crucial to make good works. ”