The actors of the musical "Little Lion Big Star" interact with the audience before the opening Zhang Xuejun photographed
Beijing, November 14 (Reporter Ying Ni) With the parent-child musical "Little Lion Big Star" performed happily at the Shunyi National Test Theater on the 14th, the "2020 New Year Performance Season" jointly created by the Prosperity Think Tank and the National Test Theater kicked off, and the musicals "Avanti" and "If", the drama "I Am Not Li Bai" and "Son-in-Law Driving" and an "Oscar Soundtrack Concert" will be staged in this theater.
Although Beijing is the capital of culture, most of the theaters are concentrated in the center of the city, and most of the wonderful performances are concentrated in the theaters in the city. The opening of the National Test Theater has filled the gap in the commercial performance venues of professional theaters in Shunyi District and even east of the East Fifth Ring Road, and the two musicals that have undergone market inspection for several years will undoubtedly deliver excellent cultural products to the doorsteps of the people of Shunyi, especially to the weekend time of children in Shunyi District.
Stills from the musical "Little Lion Big Star" by Zhang Xuejun
On the afternoon of the 14th, the National Test Theater was full of laughter, and the organizers held a lively red carpet show before the performance, and the actors of "Little Lion big star" walked hand in hand with the small audience who came to watch. The performance has not yet opened, the young audience and the actors have taken the lead in interacting, and the "stars" of the animal kingdom have danced with the children.
Amid the beautiful and cheerful music and singing, the young audience followed the little lion and the little tiger into the jungle to start a strange adventure. "Little Lion Big Star" mainly tells the story of a small lion named "Ah Wu" on the prairie who came to the city from the prairie because of the attraction of rainbow sugar, and was made into a big star by the circus agent. After that, he felt the noise of the city and the crowd's strong pursuit, experienced the glory of fame and the expansion of desire, but also experienced the endless emptiness and loneliness after leaving his hometown. In the end, the little lion returned to the grassland and found his ideal home.
At the scene, the actors sang and danced at the same time, but also had a fun interaction with the small audience, and sent rainbow candy to the children. Director Fan Tao said that this is a happy large-scale original musical drama work suitable for parent-child family performances, "In the creative process, strive to be diverse and cheerful, the choreography is vivid and beautiful, in which the actor plays multiple roles, which puts forward quite high requirements for the performance of the actors, and we hope to dedicate to the audience is a well-made and high-quality original musical theater work." It is reported that "Little Lion Big Star" will start a national tour after this round of performances.
Resident performances of musicals are the norm abroad, and it is common for a play to be performed in a theater all year round or even a theater named after the name of the play. However, in the domestic performance market, resident performances are not the mainstream of the industry. This time, the prosperity think tank's musicals "Little Lion Big Star", "Avanti", "If" and drama "I am not Li Bai", "Son-in-law Driving" and an "Oscar soundtrack concert" six major plays "packaged" into the National Test Theater, from November 14 to January 31, 2021 for a period of 3 months, to form a colorful New Year's performance season.
It is reported that during the performance season, the organizers not only arranged high-quality parent-child musicals and concert projects for the audience every Saturday and Sunday morning and afternoon, but also successively arranged dramas, musicals and New Year's concert projects every Friday, Saturday and evening. In addition, the New Year's performance season activities have also received strong support from the Capital Cinema Alliance, and each performance during the performance season has arranged a 30% 80 yuan huimin performance ticket for each performance. In the next performance process, the public welfare activity "Soul Theater" plan will also be brought into Shunyi District, so that more students from universities, middle schools and primary schools in Shunyi District can enter the theater with the support of public welfare enterprises to feel the charm of stage art.
For the emergence of the National Test Theater, Wang Yu, chairman of the Prosperity Think Tank and producer of the play, said that most of the theaters in Beijing are concentrated in urban areas within the fourth ring road, and high-quality plays and concerts are staged almost every day. But for the audiences in the districts and counties outside the fourth ring road, going to the city to watch a performance can be described as a boat and a car. Located at the junction of Tongzhou, Shunyi and Chaoyang districts, the Shunyi Guoji International Conference and Exhibition Center is a professional theater that has just been opened, which can hold dramas, musicals, ballets, symphonies, concerts, celebrity meetings, film premieres and other large-scale cultural activities, it can be said that its use fills the gap in the commercial performance venues of professional theaters in Shunyi District and even east of the East Fifth Ring Road, and these two plays have also opened the precedent of commercial performances of professional theaters in Shunyi District. (End)
Source: China News Network