The classics of Shanghai burlesque in the 1970s and 1980s were "Shang slip", "Baby Under the Street Lamp" and "Human Slip" and "Seventy-two Tenants", which were bright for a while, creating a peak milestone, and the latecomers can be said to be unsurpassed.
Here we should pull a little apart, why shanghai had the distinction between "slipping up" and "slipping people", "Shanghai Burlesque Troupe" referred to as "Shanghua", formerly known as "Shanghai Bee Burlesque Troupe", the main actors: the older generation includes Yao Mushuang, Zhou Baichun, Yuan Yiling, Wu Meimei, Xiao Mimi, Lin Yanyu, Yan Shunkai, Wu Shuangyi, Tong Shuangchun, Wang Shuangqing, Weng Shuangjie, Li Qing, etc. who are active in front of the stage all year round, Qian Cheng, Chen Guoqing, Qin Lei, Gu Zhujun, Hu Qingyun, Xiao Weng Shuangjie, He Saifei, etc.
Zhou Libo counted Mr. Zhou Baichun as a closed disciple, and later quit the troupe to split it himself. Speaking of Bobo's "Haipai Qingkou" performance style is not original, as early as the 20s and 30s, Mr. Liu Chunshan, the originator of burlesque, often compiled the news of the day into a paragraph to sing, improvising the skills of the cross-knot. Later, in the 1980s, Chen Weibo, who was originally a Commentator in Suzhou, changed his role to a "stand-up one-legged play", which was also popular.
The "Shanghai People's Burlesque Troupe" is referred to as "Renhua" before it, the famous "Grand Duke Burlesque Troupe", the main actors are Yang Huasheng, Xiao Xixi, Zhang Qiaonong, Lu Yang, Zhang Liyin, etc., young and middle-aged actors Wang Rugang, Lin Xibiao, Shen Ronghai, Mao Mengda, Zhou Qingyang, Zhang Xiaoling, Fu Ziming, Li Jiusong, Xu Shuangfei and so on.
Both burlesque troupes experienced being forced to disband in the 1960s and 1970s and rebuilt in 1978. At that time, a "Shanghai Youth Burlesque Troupe" was also born in Shanghai Beach, and the main actors were Nenniang, Shang Fusheng, Liu Fusheng, Fang Yanhua, Guo Mingmin, Cai Jianying, Yao Qi'er, and Gong Renlong. The quyi team under the name of the "Shanghai Radio and Television Art Troupe" is small in scale, including Xiao Shengmi, Sun Ming, Huang Yongsheng and others.
Seventy-two tenants
In the 1950s, Yang Huasheng, Xiao Xixi, Zhang Qiaonong, Shen Yile, and several old comics were in a mixed hall, based on some previous one-man shows such as "Pulling Teeth" and "Investigating Household Registrations", and then combined with the life of the low-level people in Shanghai to create "Seventy-Two Tenants". This script was remade into a movie by Hong Kong and Guangdong many times in the 1960s and 1970s, and the pig cage wall in Stephen Chow's film "Kung Fu" was also based on this.
In 1978, the burlesque play "Seventy-Two Tenants" premiered in the theater, reaching the point where a ticket was difficult to find, it was watched on TV that year, there was very little TV to watch in that era, remember the next door neighbor working in other provinces, the unit entrusted him to purchase television sets in Shanghai, for the test quality to play for a month, we had the opportunity to rub the TV every day, and even the window was crowded with passers-by at night. At that time, the neighborhood relations were good, I remember that as long as there was a family wrapped wontons, they would send out a few bowls for everyone to taste, miss the wontons at that time, eat leftovers at noon to make cold wontons, and fry them in the evening.
The first act of the play is very noisy, the big cake shop, tailor shop, laundry shop on the stage one by one lined up, the actors in the play appear one by one, the actors speak in various dialects, Pudong dialect, Ningbo dialect, Shaoxing dialect, Wuxi dialect, Northern Jiangsu dialect and Shandong dialect, to the end of the stage everyone mixed together, looking at the laughter and stomachache.
Laughing and giggling old mr. in the play to play Uncle Binggen, absolutely old rogue tone, when he appeared on the scene, he heard the noise of the people downstairs, slowly walked down the stairs, wearing a brass basin hat, shy belly, the suit was half open, and the opening sentence came to say "What can I do, the meal is full!" ", the aura of the big come is a day in the world. The actor who plays Ah Xiang in the play said in an interview a few years later that there was a scene where Binggen was drunk and flirted with Ah Xiang, and he was really scared to cry at the time.
In fact, the old man is amiable in life, but has a high degree of myopia. It is said that once on the way home, do not be careful about falling, thanks to the help of passers-by to help go home, sent to the door of the old man even thanked him, the strange thing is that the person also followed into the house, it turned out to be his own son-in-law. In his seventies, he performed the one-man show "Staring Ba" called Hanako, with a fresh mouth and a flexible pace, and by the age of 80, he could still perform a period of "Playing Lotus Xiang" on the stage, and in his later years, he still worked hard, unfortunately, he could not publish the antics he created.
Teacher Lu Yang played a greedy and unreasonable second landlord vividly, especially upstairs and downstairs, scolding the little cobbler for "eating bubble rice", which made the audience laugh. Lu Yang and Yang Huasheng are brothers and sisters, Xiao Tatsumi has nothing to do to see her brother perform and also likes the line of burlesque, she has not officially visited the teacher, and her acting skills are all based on stealing from the older generation behind the stage. She has not read books but can participate in the creation of the script, "So Daddy" this play is she and Xiao Xixi, Ye Yiqing three people to complete, and later adapted into a movie. She only read the script two or three times to remember the lines of her role, which is really talented, and in the 1994 large-scale burlesque play "The First House on the Sea", she starred as a white elder sister, although she has passed seventy years old.
Mr. Yang Huasheng played the policeman "Three Six Nine" in this play, the origin of this name is because he debuted in the "big world" in a funny play, and the stroke of these three words is exactly 369. There is a performance in this play, which is to pick up the police hat that fell on the ground and wear it on the head, but at that time, I was already sixty years old, and my legs and feet were not as flexible as when I was young, so I changed it to a hat and swung it around on the top of my head to make a gimmick. Yang Lao liked to sing Peking Opera since childhood, although he did not become a professional actor as desired, but in his later years as a ticket holder, he was also addicted to drama, and created the popular one-man show "Ningbo Empty City Plan" according to the Peking Opera singing style.
At that time, Wang Rugang participated in this drama or was an amateur actor, but he was in place for the role of the little cobbler, and Li Jiusong also played a role in selling cigarette dragon sets. In 2002, when eating old rice to rearrange "Seventy-Two Tenants", the difference between Binggen played by Wang Rugang and Mr. XiaoXixi was not a little bit.
Zhang Liyin may not be very familiar to everyone, in fact, he is also an older generation of burlesque drama masters, in the play to play a Shaoxing gossip Dr. Jin witty and interesting, it is said that he is also the master of the two-character generation Li Qing.
In this drama, "Investigation Of Hukou" is based on a one-man show, Mr. Yuan Yiling and Li Qing are the most brilliant duo, and the inspiration of the movie "Shaolin Football" Star Ye and Uncle Da went to find the fourth master brother knocking on the door and being hit in the nose does not know whether to borrow from here.
Baby under the street lamp
In 1981, according to the unemployment problem of young people in the society at that time, he created and performed "Baby Under the Street Lamp", when unemployed youth was a big test facing the country, and the zhiqing who joined the team to return to Shanghai and a large number of middle school graduates who had been waiting for the state to assign jobs for several years had nothing to do all day. At that time, the movie "Massacre on the Nile" was screened, everyone discussed the plot, and then found out how one of the paragraphs had not been seen, it turned out that because the film copies at that time were several movie theaters that were screened at the wrong time, after playing one or more copies, they were sent by a special person to ride a two-wheeled motorcycle called "running film", if they encountered an unexpected situation, the copy would be late, and then the broadcaster would cut a period of time in order not to affect the next one, and the gang that had not seen it would go to the cinema door to make trouble, and the ticket inspectors could only let them go in and watch it before giving up.
The first act of the opening scene is a group of young people playing recreation ball at night under street lamps, which is also a common thing in our time.
Burlesque dramas are more in line with the trend, the "Straw Hat Song" and "Caravan" episode of the movie "Human Witness" that year, the opening song of the TV series "Zi Sansilang", the popular songs "Green Island Serenade", "Country Road", "Jungang Night" are interspersed, and the two little girls Lingmei and Wu Caiying are also the most fashionable on the street that year.
This burlesque drama is led by Mr. Zhou Baichun and starred as the deputy manager of the state-owned car dealership, and his cold-faced burlesque performance characteristics were fully played, and the most eye-catching person in the whole play was Zhou Lao. The police station training son of this Zhou Lao used the Shanghai opera wangpai "Liu Zhiyuan knocking more" singing voice to interpret the exquisite portrait, and there was a smooth passage behind the head: "The little devil's head bull bone knocks the drum and faints in the east, the big hair is unable to enter the university entrance examination, desperately working hard, the second hair is playing recreation balls, sending people crazy, the bones of the body are crossed, as if eight machines move together" people can't help but listen to the stoic.
The Hong Kong movie "Three Laughs" (produced by Great Wall Pictures) in the boat family's mountain song is zhou Lao's backing song. In the movie "Midnight", adapted from Mr. Contradiction, Zhou Lao starred as the owner of the match factory, there is a scene where he stands on the balcony to speak to the workers, the following actors laugh as soon as they see his appearance, NG several times can not do, and then the director of Sang Arc can only shoot separately. Zhou Lao lived to learn from old age, and he could afford to play words, Shanghai opera, and Yue opera.
The role of Ermao in the play is played by Weng Shuangjie, when he was already in the year of destiny, people are skeptical of the young people in his early twenties, the first weight is not qualified, the middle-aged Fa Fu already has a small belly, in order to achieve the performance effect, he insists on jumping rope exercise to lose more than ten pounds, the climbing scaffolding in the play must be done personally, in order to climb fast, practice every day, and then climb up and down the active network when performing.
Wu Shuangyi and Wang Shuangqing are absent from the double-character generation of this drama, Wu Shuangyi usually plays a leading cadre, and the role of the district chief in the play is estimated to have been tailored for him. And Wang Shuangqing Dai Fu Galiang can play the role of Mr. Yao Mushuang's retired teacher, but then Yao Lao has no role to play.
The play truly reflects the situation of that year, the bicycle is pumped up one point, the pie is three points, the recreation ball is a corner and a plate, the big hair book is alone, and it is not allowed to go to college for three consecutive years, when the university was described as a thousand troops crossing the single wooden bridge, and the admission rate was quite low.
Several of the leading burlesque masters in the two burlesque plays were all old at that time, but they were free on the stage, pure fire, and they had not performed for more than ten years before, and the long-standing feelings spewed out, bursting out of the second season of artistic youth.
Later, the burlesque market slowly declined, and in 1994, "Shangchu" and "Renhua" cooperated with other Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai burlesque troupes to perform "The First on the Sea", and many burlesque masters appeared collectively, which is also a grand event in the Shanghai burlesque industry.
Shanghai burlesque drama has come to this point, and the lack of creative sources is also one of the reasons, such as the early death of teacher Wang Huiquan, "Baby under the Street Lamp", "The New Biography of Ah Chao", "The First Family on the Sea" are all from his hands.
A few years ago, the burlesque industry also filmed a few indoor sitcoms Taotaojianghu, and then look at the current advertising on TV stations to catch up with the rice mixed situation, think about it is also quite funny!