"Bells... clang...... Bells..." The long-lost opening bell of the Capitol Theater sounded again at 19:30 last night, and the red curtain slowly opened... It seems like everything is business as usual, but not quite the same.
June 12 is the 68th anniversary of the establishment of Beijing Renyi Academy, in the special year of 2020, renyi actors and audiences spend a special birthday together. On the stage, 30 performers and students of the student class gave wonderful performances together; offstage, the theater, which was usually full of seats, now only some staff members are sitting sparsely, and the real audience is on the other end of the network through the Beijing Daily client, Yixi, Baidu, Damai, Youku, Yi Live and other online live broadcast platforms, sharing this long-lost hilarity and birthday celebration on the cloud.
The lights in the corner of the stage lit up, and Feng Yuanzheng appeared as the host, leading everyone to start a dramatic journey full of surprises and warmth.
In order to celebrate this birthday, but also for a long farewell reunion with the audience, Beijing Renyi presented a performance full of sincerity. The performances are mainly based on classic drama clips, such as "God's Darling" starring Pu Cunxin, two groups of "Thunderstorm" starring Yu Zhen, Xin Yue and Gong Lijun, as well as "Hamlet" fragments starring Wang Ban and Hu Jun and Lu Fang, two groups of "Sunrise" starring Cheng Lisha, Yang Mingxin and Liang Dani, Wu Yuchen Lemon, and "Camel Xiangzi" starring Guo Yijun and Jin Han...
Lan Tianye, Pu Cunxin, Feng Yuanzheng, Liang Dani, Wu Gang, Yue Xiuqing, Wang Gang, Hu Jun, Wang Ban, Gong Lijun, Chen Xiaoyi, Lu Fang, Cheng Lisha... The program list of the performance was brightly starry, and many people rushed back to participate in the celebration. "Beijing Renyi is our home, yuanqing is a big thing in the family, and of course the children are coming back." Wu Gang rushed back from the crew to participate in the performance.
Although the performances are all fragments, the degree of excitement is far more than a complete drama, because the actors choose most of the most wonderful fragments of their own works that they value very much, and it can even be said that many of the fragments in this performance are rare to see again later, and some shows still have wonderful stories hidden behind them.
Pu Cunxin, the first to appear, performed a monologue by the musician Salieri in "God's Darling", sometimes rejoicing, sometimes lonely old musicians were vividly interpreted by him. Before the performance, Pu Cunxin revealed that the performance of this clip was to learn from the performance of the predecessor Lu Qi. He has always liked Luzi's very imposing performance, and some time ago he saw the young people in the theater read the script and chose this play, and his addiction to drama was also hooked, and it took ten days to rehearse this monologue.
The actor who took charge of the big axis was the 93-year-old Lan Tianye, who took Xu Cenzi and several other young actors to perform the "Cai Wenji" segment. This is probably the most precious scene in the whole performance, you know that he first starred in the play of Dong Qi in 1959, and this performance is after the performance in the 1980s, after more than thirty years. The spirit of the old man on the stage did not look like an old man in his nineties at all. Netizens who watched online also felt that this was a miracle and paid tribute to the elderly.
Yu Zhen and his wife Xin Yue performed the "Lu Gui Says Ghosts" section of "Thunderstorm" together, and the greedy Lu Gui and the delicate and innocent Four Phoenixes were in harmony. Yu Zhen said that the reason for performing this period is not only to celebrate the 68th anniversary of the theater with a classic, but also to fulfill a dream of his wife, "In 2012, she missed the role of Sifeng because of her pregnancy, and this time she can finally make up for it." ”
Hu Jun and Lu Fang fell in love because they performed on the same stage more than 20 years ago, and have not performed on the same stage for more than 20 years. In 2018, they finally performed the rival play again in Hamlet, which was also the first time the play was performed on the stage of the Capitol Theatre. In order to have a better presentation effect in the live broadcast, they also made adjustments to the original scene. The trainees of the Renyi Student Class, who are in training, presented the "Shouting Suite" that the old artists of Beijing Renyi have performed, and the inheritance of generations of artists flows darkly in the sound of shouting and selling.
There is no audience offstage, the wonderful performances of the actors on the stage are not responded to, and cloud live broadcasting is both a special experience and a challenge for the actors. In rehearsals, the rehearsal coach will emphasize the need to distinguish between ordinary performances, such as not standing too far ahead. Chen Xiaoyi's method is not to think about it, "just perform as if the audience is still full in front of you, no matter what the reaction is offstage, you have to perform what you want to express." Gong Lijun also struggled with whether she should perform on the stage as herself, or perform in front of the camera, or a combination of the two, "Actors should have such an ability to adapt to any kind of situation." ”
Hu Jun believes that there is no audience at the scene, which is actually a reminder that the theater cannot be separated from the audience. Yu Zhen, who is already a live broadcast Internet celebrity, is particularly excited about this live broadcast, and he feels that the helpless move at present may also have unexpected surprises, which can make more people feel the charm of the drama in this way, "The audience group of the drama is too small, and a performance in the Capital Theater is only more than nine hundred viewers, and the live broadcast can have hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people to see." ”
The curtain fell, and the applause rang out... Although I don't know when the reunion day will be, this performance is enough to make everyone have the strength to continue to look forward to the day when the theater opens. "In the near future, we will see you at the Renyi Theater." Feng Yuanzheng said.
Source: Beijing Daily
Reporter Niu Chunmei
Process Editor: Wu Yue
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