This is a city landmark and a beautiful scenery on the banks of the Yangtze River.
This is a stage and a "cultural living room" that highlights the characteristics of the city.
In the past seven years, Nanjing Poly Grand Theatre has successively launched brand performance seasons such as "Nanjing Drama Festival", "European and American Symphony Music Season", "Poly Art Festival", "Open the Door of Art", "Weekend Concert" and "Nanjing Musical Theatre Festival", empowering the high-quality development of Nanjing with elegant art.
In the past seven years, Nanjing Poly Grand Theater has held a total of more than 1,200 performances, more than 1.6 million people have entered the theater, and countless beautiful moments have occurred here.
Walking with the times
Consciously inherit the red gene
The hundred-year journey is magnificent, and the original intention of the hundred-year journey has lasted for a long time. In order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, in 2021, Nanjing Poly Grand Theater specially launched the "Centennial Is just the Right Style - Party History Study, Education and Literature and Art Class", bringing a series of works with both the main theme and young aesthetics to the audience, highlighting poly's responsibility and responsibility.
In May, the non-fiction drama "Fu Delhi", which tells the original intention and mission, sacrifice and belief of the founders of the Communist Party of China a hundred years ago, was staged at the Poly Grand Theater in Nanjing. Before the performance, the young actors and creators with the post-90s team opened a deep and unforgettable meeting with the Nanjing audience, touching the light of history and feeling the resonance of the soul in the sharing and exchange. An audience member said: "Not only did I watch a fashion performance that was in my ears and into my heart, but I also had a good listening, good-looking and easy-to-understand literary and art party lesson." ”
The reporter learned that the entire "Party History Study, Education, Literature and Art Excellence Course" aims to tell red stories and inherit red genes through different stage expressions such as dramas, concerts, and dance dramas. In November, "Eight Women Throwing the River", which gathers many principals of Liaoning Ballet, will use dance vocabulary to tell the story of defending the family and defending the country, and convey the indomitable revolutionary spirit of the martyrs.
Gathering Zhang Zhijian, Huang Pinyuan, Shi Wenzhong tv series original class, Zhang Tong, Zeng Li, Niu Piao, Shi Jingming and other stars of the drama "The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes", will use 4 hours to condense the magnificent waves of China's revolutionary history, so that the audience can feel the deep feelings of home and country in the tears and flashpoints.
Symbiosis with the city
Dedicated to creating a brand performance season
The theater is a cultural landmark of the city, showing the spiritual temperament and cultural taste of the city.
Based in Nanjing, Nanjing Poly Grand Theater grasps the urban characteristics of the "World Literary Capital" and creates the "Nanjing Theater Festival", which is now the fifth session and has become one of the most important theater festivals in China.
In 2019, directed by Rimas Tuminas and starring Yin Zhusheng and Liao Fan, faust, adapted from the world literary giant Goethe's book of the same name, opened its global premiere in Poly, bringing the most shocking world-class quality dramas to Nanjing, adding a strong and colorful stroke to nanjing's internationalization.
In 2020, Chen Zhongzhong recognized that "the most in line with the soul of the original work" of "White Deer Plain" came to Nanjing three times, which moved the audience of the long-lost theater to tears.
In 2021, Cao Yu and Wan Fang's father and daughter screenwriters and dramas "Thunderstorm" and "After Thunderstorm" stand on the perspective of the human community and observe human nature and human destiny; Mao Award laurels and epic masterpiece "Dust Settled" are in the dust of civilization, making poetry reborn...
The Nanjing Drama Festival spares no effort to introduce high-quality plays to the audience, so that drama can become a way of life, so that the audience can draw strength from it and actively face life.
In 2021, the "Nanjing Musical Theatre Festival" came into being, aiming to create a professional, in-depth and super-first-class musical theater brand. On the basis of the introduction of high-quality musicals, we will take into account diversified expressions and focus on original musicals. In March, the musical "Bouquet for Alginon" depicts the warmth and coldness of human nature under the shell of science fiction; in April, the new Chinese style musical "Wukong" shows the perfect fusion of Chinese mythology and cruel aesthetics; in May, the suspenseful reasoning musical "Water Day" explores the warm story of "love" behind the darkness; in June, the all-star original musical "Orphan of Zhao" presents the magnificent epic "Spring and Autumn"...
One drama in January, one drama and one grid, the theme of "Nanjing Musical Theatre Festival" involves healing, mystery, suspense, rock and roll, etc., attracting Nanjing audiences at the same time, but also allowing musical theater lovers in the Yangtze River Delta region to chase dramas across provinces. An audience member of shanghai said in an interview with reporters, "The Nanjing Musical Theatre Festival has gradually changed my viewing habits, and my favorite musicals are available here." Measuring time and transportation costs, going to Nanjing to watch dramas, visit shops, and spend weekends has become a new way of life. ”
Empathize with the audience
Jump towards a cultural center with temperature and texture
After seven years of accumulation and hard work, Nanjing Poly Grand Theater has cultivated a large number of art lovers, especially a group of young audiences. Theaters have also leapt towards a warmer, more textured cultural center.
Since 2018, the theme activity of "The Best Youth Meets Drama" of Nanjing Drama Festival has invited new students from Nanjing Colleges and Universities to enter Poly to watch dramas. In the four years since the event was held, more than 8,000 freshmen have been welcomed into the theater and 8,326 performance tickets have been given away, with a total value of nearly 3 million yuan. No matter how popular the famous dramas, such as "Rock Mozart", "Notre Dame de Paris", "Deling and Cixi", poly has a "student ticket" benefit of 100 yuan, which makes many young people fall in love with Poly because of a drama, because Poly falls in love with the artistic atmosphere of Nanjing, and chooses to stay in Nanjing to start a business after graduation.
On the basis of serving the audience, Poly empathizes with the audience and establishes a symbiotic relationship with the audience. Understand the audience's taste and demand for the repertoire, introduce the audience's favorite repertoire and performances, and hold rich and unique activities and art salons to enhance the audience's sense of cultural acquisition and happiness.
It is worth mentioning that before the musical "Wukong" was staged, the theater invited Liu Xiaoyi, the director of the play who was a fan of "Drama New Life", to lead the audience to conduct a backstage visit, so that the audience could walk on the stage and feel the charm of the theater in front of and behind the scenes. ”
The theater also held a meet-and-greet before the performance of the musical "The Orphan of Zhao". It is reported that after the recruitment was released, nearly a thousand people signed up to participate. At the meeting, fans and actors interacted cordially to discuss their views on the role and the repertoire, which was interesting and meaningful. In response to the audience's voice, the theater also specially selected and designed an "SD" channel, so that the actors and the audience can communicate closely after the performance, which is unanimously praised by the audience.
The seventh anniversary of Nanbao
Let art and life meet unexpectedly
The reporter learned that with the sound of "Hearing the King's World - 2021 King's Glory Symphony Concert", the seventh anniversary performance season of Nanjing Poly Grand Theater will be grandly opened, which is worth looking forward to. Chinese musicals are exciting. From October 9th to 10th, the Chinese version of the musical "Rock and Roll Faust" will interpret the practical significance of the classic text and bring the audience a pioneering audio-visual feast worthy of the name of "rock and roll". In January 2022, the first part of the large-scale original musical "The Pretender" trilogy of home and country, "Willing to Have This Body and Serve the Country", will retelle the Chinese story with original strength as the core. Blockbuster dramas are full of surprises. Coinciding with the Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Meng Jinghui's latest masterpiece "Red and Black" surged forward, and Mei Ting and Zhang Hancheng led the Empty Flower Group to perform Stendhal's most prestigious century-old masterpiece. The National Drama Theatre of China's drama "The Gate of the Great Mansion" sees the vicissitudes of the Bai family's time-honored brand in the intersection of history and reality. The Oscar-winning film adaptation of the same name stage play "Parasite", the international IP collision Chinese interpretation, wonderful.
Concerts are inclusive. The 2022 Poly New Year Concert of the Central Chinese Orchestra will inherit and excavate the essence of traditional music culture and perform classic songs such as "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon", "Birds and Phoenixes", "Spring River Flower Moon Night" and so on. New Kyushu Orchestra New Year Concert, see the "Treasure Orchestra" of station B out of the circle to interpret the collision and fusion of Chinese and Western cultures with music.
Parallel to the wonderful performances, the theater's brand image is also being renewed and upgraded, and the seventh anniversary of cultural creation has been widely praised as soon as it was launched, integrating wax lamps, telescopes, ticket holders and other cultural creations that can be "taken home", so that the literary and artistic temperament of the theater extends from the stage to the daily life of the audience. In order to attract more young people, it also designed and produced the "Nan Xiaobao" blind box to bring different surprises to the audience.
Gong Shenglin, general manager of Nanjing Poly Grand Theater, said: "The seventh anniversary of Nanjing Poly Grand Theater, in the future we will continue to actively innovate in performance projects, content and exchanges, create a comprehensive theater experience, and make the theater an indispensable part of the audience's life." ”
The seventh anniversary of Nanjing Poly Grand Theater is growing and is young. Nourish the city with art, serve the development of the city's large-scale cultural industry, and let art and life meet unexpectedly.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Kong Xiaoping
Source: Purple Cow News