Following the creation of the musicals "Interview" and "Smoke", the "Performing Arts World Shanghai Musical Theatre Art Center" has a high degree of creativity in the small theater section, and at the beginning of the Year of the Tiger, it launched a concert derived from two popular works - "No Two". Last night, young singers gathered at the FANCL Art Center, and the climax of the 110 minutes was repeated, and finally all the casts were pressed to perform the high-burning and healing "Wings".
On the stage, there are Xu Junshuo, He Liangchen, Gao Yang, Li Xiangzhe, Hu Chaozheng, the chief and popular players of "Sound into People's Hearts"; there are also Liu Lingfei, Liu Yang, Zhou Mohan, Cui Ener and others who are currently popular and popular. With the rapid development of Shanghai's musical theater industry and the prosperity of the market, these musical theater rookies have found the development track of life in the city, released their charm on the stage, and won the enthusiasm and applause of the audience.
"Shanghai is to musical theatre as Milan is to opera"
"Plane trees, skyscrapers... Everything in Shanghai is what I like, and she has built so well in the musical theater industry, I feel really lucky to be able to study and develop in Shanghai, thanks to the decision made by the 18-year-old," Xu Junshuo said in a reporter backstage interview. He once shined in the variety show "Sound into People's Hearts", and last year he participated in many works such as the musical "Orphan of Zhao", "Fan Letter", "Interview" and so on, and received full applause. Xu Junshuo, a native of Fuzhou, said Shanghai is as warm and welcoming as his hometown, but also full of opportunities and surprises in life.
The epidemic has accelerated the pace of local musical theater development, and Xu Junshuo, who is in the industry, has felt this "acceleration". He said, "In the past two years, the domestic musical theater industry has been 'rolled', which is a very benign state, and everyone's standard is how to do a good job - the real sense of both quality and market works, because of the birth of masterpieces, more and more talents and audiences have begun to flock to this market." ”
Another young actor, He Liangchen, also felt the same way, studying opera, because musical theater found his goal in life. He said, "I studied in Italy, and although Rome is the first in Italy, more opera opportunities are in Milan, Shanghai, just like another Milan." ”
This year may become a bumper year for He Liangchen, and soon, he will hold his first solo concert and will show his strength to the audience in works such as the musical "Four Two Youth" and "Interview". Last night's concert can be said to be He Liangchen's "Interview" debut. The new combination of He Liangchen, who plays Eugene, and Xu Junshuo, who plays Sinclair, creates more expectations and reverie for the audience.
Although the concert "No Two" is born from the musical "Interview" and "Smoke", it is a new derivative work, which interprets the chapter of life from multiple angles - the meaning of human "life", the "fission" self, the thinking of "living", and the choice of "in the world". According to the narrative line of "Four Chapters of Life", 12 actors perform on the same stage in each scene, reproducing the classic songs of "Interview" and "Smoke".
In the interpretation of songs, each song can show the charm of strong and powerful. The limited clip performed by five actors at the same time takes the audience into the inner world of the protagonist of "Interview", and multiple personalities meet for the first time, colliding with an absolute impact. The two heroines of the two plays sang on the same stage, singing strong duets, and a song of "Struggle" shouted about the indomitability of life, highlighting the extraordinary female strength. At the same time, Li Lei, the new actor of "Hai" in "Smoke", surprised the official announcement, which not only brought the first singing of "Despair", but also injected a refreshing point of view into the stage.
Discover the highlights in mature works and derive "new models" with "explosive models"
In "No Two", the musical "Interview" and "Smoke" were linked for the first time, and more than 30 popular golden songs were all unveiled. On the basis of a piano, the live band added a large and viola and two violins, reproducing the limited configuration of the 100-field string version of "Interview", so that the musical texture was improved again. Intense immersion makes the audience sometimes dream back to the evenly matched interview, and sometimes return to the smoke of self-searching.
The upgrade of the choreography is also unique. In addition to reproducing the romantic dome full of beautiful poetry in "Smoke" and the creative smoke mirror that swirls around the psychedelic, it also deeply integrates the triangle platform of Eugene Studio's own confrontation in "Interview". The second staircase, one up and one down, is the parallel time and space of "Smoke" and "Interview"; down the stairs, in the center of the stage, is the fateful encounter between Chao, Hai, and Red with Eugene, Sinclair, and Joanna.
In addition to music and plot, "No Two" also conveys a strong tone: "Everyone is unique". People cannot choose the circumstances of birth, whether they are lucky or unlucky, and only by living will they have an answer.
The "No Two" concert became SMC's first attempt to develop the small theater series brand. In recent years, with the characteristics of integrating elements such as sophisticated production, artistic performance, and interactive experience, small theaters have gradually been popular with the new generation of consumption "Houlang" and transformed into a new type of cultural consumption demand.
Different from the grand theater that focuses on grand narratives, under the background of content segmentation and consumption upgrading with diversified tastes, exploring and creating a new small theater resident mode, and constantly launching personalized, compound and original works, is undoubtedly an important driving force to boost the domestic small theater from emerging to the market and word-of-mouth double harvest.
Previously, SMC has made small gains in exploring the power point of sophisticated small theater plays, whether it is the hard-to-find "Interview" or the high-quality word-of-mouth "Smoke", which confirms the unlimited potential of small theaters. However, the charm of small theaters is not limited to this, how to discover the highlights of existing mature works, derive "new models" with "blockbusters", and brand the series of plays will become a new idea to open up in addition to a single resident model. It is reported that led by the concert, the Chinese version of the musical "Interview" and "Smoke" will take turns to enter the FANCL Art Center Small Theater, the first round of performances of the musical "Interview" this year will be staged from March 9 to 17, and the musical "Smoke" will also meet the audience again in April this year. At the same time, a new original small theater musical was also officially put into incubation.
In the future, SMC will "break new problems" by enriching the content of plump works, create more opportunities for inspiration to collide, and revitalize the diversified appearance of small theaters, so as to achieve the effect of clever addition and closely following the diversified consumer demand. Diversified products such as musicals, derivative concerts, talk shows, and workshops will gradually land, allowing small theater brands to carry more artistic attributes and develop new residency models.
Stills Source: Shanghai Musical Theatre Art Center
Author: Tong Weijing
Editor: Zhou Minxian
Editor-in-Charge: Xuanjing
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