Listening to a bomb review show requires hand speed? On February 17, Gao Bowen, head of the Shanghai Bomb Critics Troupe, held a special Spring Festival performance at the Yuyuan Huxinting Tea House, and the tickets were sold out in half an hour.
New space, new audience, new format, the Shanghai Critics Troupe has been rejuvenated during the epidemic period, turning into zero, multi-point flowering, and the figure of the critics can be seen everywhere in the book field, theater and new space for performing arts.
Photo: Shanghai Pingtan Troupe performs at the Yuyuan Huxinting Tea House Courtesy of Shanghai Pingtan Troupe (the same below)
Strive to open up new space
During the epidemic prevention and control period, under the leadership of the Shanghai Pingtan Troupe Xiangyin Book Garden, more than ten bookstores in the city overcame various difficulties and insisted on opening their doors to perform, with a total of 2,529 performances and 186,500 audiences.
The early evaluation of the performance, 70% or 80% is long. Gao Bowen, the head of the group, said: "The epidemic has changed the form of a single performance. The times are developing, and if we still respond to changes with no change, it will certainly not work. "Many venues that were once rarely involved have opened up the situation for the development of new formats of pingtan." In the past, our annual performance income was about three or four million yuan, and in 2021 it reached 5.06 million yuan. The growth point is in our tours, new performing arts spaces, and various lectures. ”
At the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, "If Life Is Just like the First Sight - Pingtan Famous Artists Concert" lasted until 12:30 midnight, and the online broadcast of the performance exceeded 25.5 million. In Changchun Confucian Temple Square, heavy rain poured, nearly 2,000 spectators did not abandon, wearing ponchos to watch the closing performance of the 3rd Jilin Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival "'Jiangnan Wind' Evaluation Concert", the number of online viewers exceeded 600,000.
Pictured: The commentary attracted more and more viewers
In the open-air music square of Shanghai Century Park, the Jiangnan Wind Concert of the Shanghai Critics Troupe combined with the National Tide Festival, many familiar tunes such as "Slow Sound" and "Flower Good Moon", as well as beautiful qipao and elegant robes, evoked the Jiangnan style in the hearts of the audience. In the tea house next to the Jiuqu Bridge in Yuyuan Garden, the high-quality performances of the new-style long stories "Pearl Tower", "Wusong" and "Ten Beautiful Pictures" have become a unique scenery. In March, eight pairs of critics will also bring young rookies to interpret the legendary story of old Shanghai in Huxin Pavilion.
Actively integrate into new formats
More and more young faces have appeared in the offline space, and there are more ways to open online. Not long ago, the online game "A Dream of Jianghu" invited Gao Bowen and the famous lyricist Zhang Jianzhen to participate in the online live carnival celebration to turn the jianghu dream into reality, creating a new review track "Every Jun into a Dream", crossing the boundary between reality and virtuality with an original Jiangnan sound.
Netizen "Xiao Sheng" in the game in the Jinling wonderful will play, walked to a roof suddenly heard this song "Feng Jun into the Dream", looking for sound sources everywhere, and finally walked into the attic, found the evaluation scene in the game, where listened to a song, just like walking into the pavilion in Jiangnan to listen to the music, 360 ° surrounded, the sense of substitution is too strong.
Pictured: The form of the commentary performance has also been diversified
Netizens "you are not meat" but specially ran to this attic singing and commenting on the attic to listen to the music, "don't mention how leisurely." In the world of the second dimension, young people feel the pleasure of their parents and grandparents going to the tea house and the bookstore to listen to books, and they repeatedly issue three torture questions under the official account of Bilibili of the bomb group: "Why is it only three minutes?" ”
Coincidentally, the explosion of "Goddess Splitting View" on the whole network also attracted the national team to improvise, and Tao Yingyun, an actor of the Shanghai Commentary Troupe, accepted a cover challenge when recording a program on the radio. A piece of Yu's "Goddess Splitting View" made "Mengxin" netizens scramble to ask, where can you buy the novella "Lin Huiyin" performed by Teacher Tao?
Actively engage new audiences
On the way to sowing the seeds of the bomb to the children, the bomb critics have also been working hard. The shanghai children's art theater's parent-child performance "Baby, Come to see the play" issued an invitation to the jury, and Gao Bowen and Wu Xinbo took a unique path and taught children to recite Tang poems and Song poems in Wu dialect. Not to mention the use of comments to interpret the theme song of Doraemon, the popular "The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountains", Wu Xinbo also connected Guan Yu and Lü Bu in the commentary with the online game "Glory of the King", and the audience under the stage felt very interesting.
Now in Jiading, with a small peony children's evaluation group, Tao Yingyun will give lessons to children every week, from sitting etiquette to pipa singing, this group of small red scarves now has a look. Whether they come from Shandong, Henan or northeast China, a soft Wu Nong language makes them a part of Shanghai.
Picture said: Do you want to go to the Yuyuan Huxin Pavilion together to listen to a bomb review?
The small judging stage also carries the urban spirit of Shanghai. Distinguished from the form of performance, there are long pieces, novellas, concerts, etc.; from the price point of view, there are free public welfare venues, 5 yuan, 10 yuan book field, 30 yuan xiangyin book garden, 288 yuan of sea pear garden performances; from the content of the distinction, there are "flowers", "Lin Huiyin" such urban life and celebrity biography themes, there are "love myths" such as "The Legend of the White Snake", there are financial and anti-epidemic themes such as "No Gun Smoke" and "Medical Saints", as long as needed, this light cavalry can immediately perform.
Commenting on the old audience is very uncomfortable when watching "No Smoke", why? There is no way to doze off, I have no idea what will happen in the next minute, how can I not listen carefully? The Suzhou audience couldn't help but give a thumbs up when enjoying the book's version of "Medical Saint": "In the end, it is the Shanghai group!" "The success of innovation is inseparable from solid basic skills," the inheritance of all genres and bibliographies, the Shanghai Critics Troupe has a clear genealogy, point-to-point hand-in-hand inheritance. Gao Bowen said that shouzheng innovation is still fundamental. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhao Yue)