The Paper's reporter Liao Yang intern Wang Zhen
6 musicals, 2 plays, 1 talk show... SAIC Shanghai Culture Square's annual "year-end drama" arrived as promised, and when the introduction of international drama was hit hard, it chose to return to the local area and Chinese acting for Chinese.
From December this year to February next year, in 65 days, the year-end performance season will introduce 3 major sections, 9 works and 40 performances with the theme of "from drama to far away", from the time span to the number of plays, which is the highest in the calendar year.
In the Musical Theater section, 6 Chinese-language musicals will be staged one after another.
Soul Ferry Eternal Life will kick off the year-end season. The drama is adapted from the popular web drama, taking the suspense, thrilling style, and integrated with the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "According to the age group of the audience of the web drama, we hope that more 'post-90s' audiences will enter the theater." Producer Yu Tingting said.
"In the Distance" is also adapted from the TV series of the same name, telling the story of the orphan Yao Yuan from a low-level courier to the establishment of a courier brand, and recreating the changes in the express delivery industry and even China's economic and social development. Ayunga will be both composer and lead actor.
"China has three million couriers, in 2020 the national express delivery business volume of more than 60 billion pieces, express delivery has become a just need in our lives, we should use stage art to target these behind-the-scenes heroes." Chief producer Dong Ning said.
After the "Back to Folk Songs" concert, musicians Xiaohe, Wan Xiaoli and Zhang Weiwei will also return to the Cultural Square. This time, they changed their identities, and also brought their long-time musical friends Guo Long and Anna Isa Martin, and the five of them will perform the musical drama "Wandering Song River Band" as the legendary Chinese folk band "River Band".
"If musicals in the past were like novels, our works were more like poetry." Director and screenwriter Yan Nan said that this "immortal lineup" will use works full of fairy tale style and allegorical flavor to tell their attitude to the world, their love for music, their cherishing of emotions, their search for dreams, and their hopes for life.
Wandering Song River Band
"Dinosaurs Are Resurrected" will take the audience into the "Fantastic Night of the Museum for the Whole Family" and get in close contact with the T-Rex. Zhai Li Shuotian was invited to star.
The "Chinese version" of the musical was produced by Nao Yin Culture. Director Shi Lu introduced that this drama was born in 2016, was awarded the title of "Best Family Musical" by the Korean Culture and Arts Commission, and has been performed nearly 400 times so far, with an audience of 300,000. ”
In addition to 4 new works, the tour has toured many rounds of "White Night" and "Spring Awakening", returning to the Cultural Square again, and "White Night Walk" will accompany the audience to spend the "Christmas - New Year's Eve" period.
In the drama section, "Ordinary World" and "White Deer Plain" from Shaanxi People's Art Theater are the highlights.
"Ordinary World" is adapted from Lu Yao's novel of the same name, and "White Deer Plain" is adapted from Chen Zhongzhong's novel of the same name, "If "White Deer Plain" is the conscience of Chinese, "Ordinary World" is the backbone of Chinese. A spiritual height, a soul temperature. ”
Zhang Ligang, chairman of the operator Jiuwei Culture, said that the two crews are hundreds of people, but the two lineups do not cross, ""White Deer Plain" has performed 350 times, there are seven or eight actors in their seventies, this round of performances may make relatively large adjustments, many actors are the last time in "White Deer Plain" debut. ”
White Deer Plains
In the talk show section, Xiaoguo Culture gathers talk show actors Pang Bo, Hu Lan, Rock and Zhou Qimo to bring talk show performances. This is also a fresh attempt to enter the Theater of a Thousand People from a small theater to a small talk show.
"Our key word is 'dissolution'. Why do young people like talk shows so much? Essentially, it provides a way to communicate with young people by using humor to dissolve some of life's pain. ”
Liu Lijuan, vice president of Xiaoguo Culture, said, "Especially this year's epidemic, everyone can't go to a distant place and travel, at this time, someone needs to talk about this negative emotion and use humor to resolve it, which is what our actors are doing." ”
Laughing Fruit Talk Show
"At the end of previous years, we all introduced international dramas, and this year the entire industry has been hit hard, and the Cultural Square is no exception. In fact, the epidemic has also given China's creators and production teams an opportunity to develop. ”
Fei Yuanhong, deputy general manager of Cultural Square, said that in addition to maintaining the taste of musical theater at the end of the year, the performance season also stepped on drama and talk shows, "We will continue to make the musical theater brand bigger and stronger in the future, while attracting other high-quality performance brands. ”
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