Cover news reporter Yan Wenwen Xun Chao
Zheng Qiyuan, a textbook character in Chinese musical theater. He has starred in many musicals, working with singers such as Tan Weiwei, Huang Qishan, Yu Kewei and other singers, and almost all of his musical theater works have a symbol - Chinese original musicals. Unexpectedly, the song "Someday" he once sang has been included in the music textbook and has become a classic song for the professional examination of musical theater. The actor who recorded this song at that time was Zheng Qiyuan.
After nearly 20 years in the industry, Zheng Qiyuan is still active on the stage, and the plays he has starred in have a good reputation. Recently, the popular drama "The Orphan of Zhao" in 2021, which has a high reputation in China's original musical, is touring the country. Zheng Qiyuan starred in the play as the male number one Cheng Baby. This role has both the timidity and cowardice of a small person, and a grand sense of family and country in his chest. Zheng Qiyuan told the cover news reporter that at the beginning, he had the opportunity to play the character of Tu Anjia, but in the end he still created the role of Cheng Bao.
He hadn't been to Chengdu in ten years, but he had a deep relationship with him
"I haven't been to Chengdu for a long time, almost 10 years." This time, I wanted to go to the place where I used to perform, but I heard that it is not the place to perform anymore. Zheng Qiyuan said so.
At the age of 25, Zheng Qiyuan came to Chengdu alone and starred in the Three Treasures musical "Golden Sands". That year was a year of infinite scenery at the Jinsha ruins, the sun god bird became a symbol of China's cultural heritage, and the Shu embroidery works embroidered with the sun god bird also went to space. The "Golden Sands" musical also caught fire along with this craze, and Zheng Qiyuan, as the male protagonist of this drama, performed more than 120 times in Chengdu and Chongqing.
Until now, Zheng Qiyuan still remembers the scene of the performance in Chengdu at that time: "I remember that near the residence at that time, there was an Yibin burning noodles, and I had to eat back to the pot meat fried rice almost every day. ”
In this musical, zheng Qiyuan's two songs, "Someday" and "Outside the Sky", have become two very important songs in the history of China's original musical theater, of which "Someday" has been included in the music textbook and has become a classic song for the professional examination of musical theater; and "Outside the Sky", almost every musical theater actor will sing.
Two years ago, Zheng Qiyuan went to participate in "Sound into People's Hearts", and a young man hummed "Beyond the Edge of Heaven": "She gently sang like a natural sound, and my dreams were like wings and hearts like the sea." It has been 15 years since Sanbao created this work, and the young man who sang it was called Xu Junshuo, who played Cheng Bo, the son of Cheng Bao, in "The Orphan of Zhao", which is also a special fate.
Only one play a year to shape the characters with heart and affection
More than 20 years in the industry, compared to many musical theater actors, Zheng Qiyuan is not prolific. If you count, there are more than 10 musicals, and almost all of them are original Chinese musicals. This is actually inconsistent with Zheng Qiyuan's fame and traffic.
Don't think that "traffic" is a bad word, in the musical theater circle, if an actor can bring his own, even if it is a little traffic, it means that the play is watched, so many plays currently performing in China like to use the same batch of traffic, so that some actors may participate in 2 plays a month.
Zheng Qiyuan did not enter the crew so often, he still walked steadily according to his own rhythm, only acting one play a year. "I only act in one play almost a year, thinking about how to make this play well, if I really put in it to create, it is actually very laborious." 」 Zheng Qiyuan said so.
Although the output is not much, Zheng Qiyuan's works are almost all well-known works, such as "Golden Sands", "The Love of Arz Memory", etc., and of course, "The Orphan of Zhao", Zheng Qiyuan almost played a small person who only promised but cherished his home country.
This is the power of an actor.
【Dialogue】
Cover News: I haven't been to Chengdu for a long time, how do you feel?
Zheng Qiyuan: Chengdu is a place I especially miss, because I have lived here for nearly a year, and the customs and customs here are for me that I will never forget in this life. I am especially happy to be back again. This time back, I found that Chengdu has changed too much, of course, although the city has become more modern, but Chengdu's cuisine, Chengdu's characteristics have not changed, so come back to feel particularly kind.
Cover News: Most of the plays you perform are original Chinese musicals, and they are all well-received, which one do you like the most?
Zheng Qiyuan: There is no comparison, there is a comparison that hurts, and each work is done very carefully. The time of the performance is not the same, the growth of the time is not the same, each work is worth nostalgia, nostalgia, is worth doing very carefully, so can not say which is the best, can only say that at that time to create it well, let the audience like.
Cover News: How long have you been preparing for the character of Cheng Baby?
Zheng Qiyuan: In the early autumn of 2019, the director sincerely approached me and met me, and the communication was particularly good at that time. I really hope that I will act, and it has been almost two years now. I was still ignorant of this play at first, and for two years, I went through rehearsal synthesis, and I went through many things and experienced the premiere. It feels like a newborn child, slowly growing up.
Cover News: Did you decide on the evolution baby at the beginning? There are no other roles to consider.
Zheng Qiyuan: When the director came to me, he said that he could try two roles, one was Cheng Bao, and the other was Tu Anjia. Later, the director also told me that the first time I saw you, I thought, you are Cheng Baby. The director was very confident, but I was still a little nervous, thinking that I could really do it? When I started rehearsals in 2020, I was still nervous at the beginning, I wasn't particularly familiar at the time, I was in a state of groping. But slowly, when you really become one with this character, when you feel that the flesh and blood on his body, his spirit, these very intangible things are rooted in your body, you still feel that the director's vision is particularly good, and this role is suitable for me.
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