The Paper's reporter Liao Yang intern Luo Jianning
"A Kunsheng who dares to love and dare to hate." Lou Yixiao commented on Yu Wanyi, who played her role in the national tide musical "Dreaming of the Lion", a Peking Opera female student who grew up all the way and finally stood in the center of the stage.
From August 3 to 7, iQIYI's first self-made musical "Dreaming of a Lion" will land at the Shanghai Grand Theatre and open its national premiere, with actors Lou Yixiao, Yu Yi, Liu Chang and other cross-border performances.
"Dreaming of a Lion" is adapted from the online novel of the same name, with Yu Wanyi, a female elder of Peking Opera, and Bai Feili, a two-dimensional stage drama producer, as the protagonists, telling the growth and self-breakthrough of the two in conflict, boldly innovating in the form of expression, and colliding with the second dimension with Peking Opera.
"Just let me freeze in front of the mirror and look at your red makeup." At the meeting before the performance, Lou Yixiao performed the drama song "Skirt" for the first time, took off her hair and changed into her daughter's outfit, and Yu Wanyi's confusion and transformation were finely interpreted. In this big heroine drama, Lou Yixiao staged a story of "princess redeeming the prince".
Lou Yixiao enjoys her opera outfit, but there are still many challenges to play Kunsheng, "I usually sing in the soprano area, Kunsheng wants to sink it, and I am also trying to find Kunsheng's state in life." When rehearsing with the vocal teacher, Lou Yixiao's voice was considered to be too thin, and if she wanted to play Kunsheng well, the teacher suggested that she try to be as thick and heavy as possible.
Peking Opera shines in the play, and it is also the biggest highlight that attracts Lou Yixiao to join, "I hope to learn some knowledge of the national essence through this play, hope to spread the national essence, and hope that young people will not forget this precious cultural heritage." ”
Yu Yi plays Ni Lin in the play, a male Dan, and audiences who have watched iQiyi's self-made web drama "Soul Ferry" series will not be unfamiliar with this actor.
"Ni Lin and Yu Wanyi together is 'Kunsheng Male Dan', two people standing together must be established, Qiankun is upside down, female voice singing boys, male voice singing girls, you must have that model." To this end, he deliberately went to learn Peking Opera, and also studied the Kun opera "Peony Pavilion • Garden Dream" singing section "Soap Luo Robe", and in the rehearsal, every word and deed was closer to The Male Dan.
"Boys playing girls is definitely not flattery, but beauty, very heavy beauty." The more you learn from the gentlemen, the more you feel that opera is not what you like, and all kinds of gestures in it, a little more and less, can't do it at all. "With the role of Ni Lin, Yu Yi has a feeling that many industries are better than packaging with ever-changing means, or maintaining the original appearance and original flavor.
Liu Chang plays bai feili, a two-dimensional stage drama producer, in the play, and the heart of this character lives two people at the same time.
This is Liu Chang's first attempt at musical theater, the biggest challenge is physical strength, "When the first two days of rehearsal were particularly tired, I was still thinking about how I came?" At that time, I didn't expect it to be so difficult, but if it came, it would be safe. "Once during a rehearsal, he had a deep cut in his leg, and he simply took some medicine, took a packet of gauze, and continued. He also tried to strangle his head, and when he was finished, he threw up, and even sighed, "Peking Opera actors are too powerful to withstand this physical discomfort." ”
What is the experience of one person playing two roles with different personalities? "It was cool! I'm not an extraordinarily sexual person, and after I went into the rehearsal of the crew, I put a lot of outside. Previously, Liu Chang was in the film and television dramas, this time to fight in musicals, he felt too different, "musicals need me to be more exaggerated, but that degree to grasp well, can not be too exaggerated." I also asked the director and Brother Yi, and they said, you just let it go! ”
Directed by Ma Da, written by Sun Haocheng and composed by Chen Qifeng, the play uses Peking Opera to collide the second dimension and graft Peking Opera and musical theater, and the three of them are also facing challenges.
There are more than 20 original songs in the play, which incorporate ethnic instruments such as Jingyun drums, chimes, guzheng, Jinghu, Yueqin, and single leather drums. As a composer, Chen Qifeng laughed and said, "I am a 'porter', but not a 'stitching monster'. What I want to do is to make the two art forms (Peking Opera, Musical) merge with each other and not conflict. ”
"Neither Peking opera nor musical theatre is a niche art. I'm confident of bringing the two art forms together. Because both are related to music, the beat, rhythm, mobilization and amplification of people's inner emotions are common. ”
Asked how to look at the current national tide, the national wind and fever, director Mada said that this is a good process, "we may have experienced the stage of overthrowing without understanding, and now, everyone has begun to find cultural roots, began to reflect on what the ancestors left behind and real life can be integrated, more confident in national culture." ”
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