"Through this repertoire, I want everyone to feel the industrial, national and artistic forces of Liuzhou." Zhang Jigang, director of the musical "To Youth", sighed. This evening and tomorrow, the play will open the prelude to the "100 Cities and 100 Shows" national tour at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, and the "Shanghai Tour Guangxi , Liuzhou Style Liuzhou Is Waiting for You" - cultural tourism promotion meeting was also held on the same day.
Pictured: The performance poster is officially the same below
"To Youth" is China's first industrial aid theme musical, born in Liuzhou Industrial Museum, and live performance, reflecting the glory and dream of Liuzhou in the fiery red era in the workshop. It was carefully polished by director Zhang Jigang and domestic first-class team, together with Liuzhou artists, after three years of meticulous polishing, with shanghai workers rushing to help The industrial construction of Liuzhou in Guangxi in the 1950s as the background of the story, stirring up the echo of history, awakening the memory of youth, and carrying the industrial nostalgia of Liuzhou.
"To Youth" tells the love story of Shanghai's aid to build Liuzhou entrepreneurship, with ups and downs, and it is deeply moving. There is an unforgettable wave of feelings between Geng Dake, the representative of shanghai liuli workers, and her lover Tong Jialing and Liu Feiyan, a female worker of Liuzhou Miaomei, who integrate their personal "small self" into the galloping trend of the new republic's entrepreneurial "big me" and dedicate their youth and strength to the rising Liuzhou industry. The play enthusiastically praises the industrial Liuzhou that grew up with New China, and pays tribute to the homeland feelings and lofty realm of those pioneers who have witnessed Liuzhou's industry and "sacrificed their youth for life and dedicated their children and grandchildren for life".
In the play, the audience can hear those stirring classic songs "We Young People", "We Want to Race Against Time" and the workshop radio exercise music, as if in the era of entrepreneurship in full swing; the newly created songs of the musical", such as "I Am Coming, Liuzhou", "Women Are Flowers", "I Want to Go Back to Shanghai" and other songs, have been interpreted by Wang Kai, the annual chief of "Sound into People's Hearts", Chang Sisi, a famous flower soprano singer, and Chen Ying, the champion of Guangxi at the Golden Bell Awards of Chinese Music, which has added a lot of color to the presentation of the musical.
After the launch of the tour in Shanghai, Liuzhou Plans to spend more than a year to perform in more than 100 cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hangzhou, and will also go to Hong Kong and Macao to perform under conditions permitting.
(Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhao Yue)