In many film and television works depicting the old Shanghai Beach, you can always see the entertainment places of drunken fans and sound and color dogs and horses, and behind these scenes there is a real prototype - "The First Music House of the East" Paramount.
The night people's silence sounded
A secluded Saxophone
Pulled up the sorrow in the depths of the heart
Nightshade people quiet place when heard
This secluded Saxophone
Thinking of you, dazed in the middle of the dark night
Yesterday afternoon, when the familiar melody of "I Have a Date with Spring" sounded here, the youth of countless people also danced.
At the end of the song, "Brother Bailang" came to the spotlight, and the stage of this Paramount gate was also trance-like and everyone crossed to the "Lihua Palace".
In 1996, because of the TV series "I Have a Date with Spring", because of a song "Diamond Diamond Shining Crystal", everyone remembered the "White Wave Brother" in the play who once had a unique scenery and later ended up in disgrace.
And his actor Li Daohong, for so many years, has been called "Brother Bailang" by everyone, and few people remember his real name, "This is actually not bad, this name makes me feel very kind." ”
This time, stepping on the Paramount stage, in addition to "Brother Bailang", he also has a new identity - one of the initiators of the "Lihua Star Audition Stage Drama Singing Competition".
From July 17th, this competition inspired by the classic film and television work of "I Have a Date with Spring" will open the audition at Paramount every Saturday night from 20:00 to 21:30, providing a more extensive platform for emerging singers, actors and dancers through 16 weeks of competitions and performances, and fully incubating the performing arts IP, through a variety of performances, so that Paramount, a Shanghai landmark, will be revitalized.
"More than twenty years have passed since "I Have a Date with Spring", and the stories of Yao Xiaofei, Lan Fengping, Jin Lulu and Hong Lianqian have also come to an end. Many of them have gradually faded out of the public eye, and even those who remain in the circle, including me, believe that they all hope to see more new people emerge. ”
In an interview with a reporter from the Morning News, Li Daohong explained the original intention of launching this activity.
Paramount is a transliteration of its English name "Paramount" and designed by Chinese architect Yang Xijun, a graduate of Nanyang University's School of Engineering.
It is nothing less than a rose-like dream for an era, which not only experienced the development of Chinese pop music, but also witnessed the birth of Zhou Xuan, Yao Li, Bai Hong, Li Xianglan and other "seven queens of songs" on the beach.
More than half a century later, Paramount is still a lingering "old dream at sea" in the hearts of generations of Shanghainese.
After the renovation was completed and reopened in 2017, Zheng Honghe, chairman of Shanghai Paramount Culture and Entertainment Co., Ltd., has always hoped to find a performance form that fits the temperament of this stage.
"If it is only pure restoration, it will become a museum, on the one hand, we must protect the building, according to the design of the past to restore and repair as much as possible, on the other hand, we must also dig out the stories that happened in Paramount and awaken the collective memory belonging to old Shanghai." Zheng Honghe once said this in an interview with the media.
Therefore, after learning the idea of the "Looking for the Star of The Flower", he hit it off with Li Daohong, the founder of Dance Boundaries and the artistic director of Dance, Li Weichun.
In Li Daohong's view, the biggest difference between this event and the TV draft is the immersive experience.
For the audience, being in such an environment, as if traveling through time and space, can better immerse themselves in live performances, and for the performers on the stage, the proximity of the Paramount stage to the audience also allows them to get feedback at the first time, "This is actually very similar to the performance form of decades ago." You sing well, the audience is easily impressed by you, singing badly, may also see them frowning. ”
Nowadays, looking at the faces of these young singers on the stage, the scene when Yao Xiaofei first appeared on the stage in the TV series appeared in front of the eyes of "Brother Bailang", which made him feel a thousand emotions, "I remember that fluttershy first appeared on the stage of the Lihua Palace in the play, and she was also wearing such a white dress, sneakers, and a hint of timidity." On paramount's stage, time and space seem to have undergone a wonderful transformation, the white wave in the play has brought Fluttershy, and in real life, of course, I am willing to provide opportunities and stages for more young people, hoping to find a new generation of 'Yao Xiao Fluttershy' and 'Blue Fengping'. Li Daohong said.
After the selection, what kind of performances will be created for the "Lihua Star"?
Li Daohong revealed that it will still be characterized by Shanghai culture, "Shanghai is a city with a variety of rivers, we can be eclectic, but in the end we still have to form our own characteristics, just like the ballroom of Paramount." I also want to take this opportunity to promote The Culture of Shanghai through performances. ”
Source: Thoughtful