In today's cross-talk industry, there are many old actors who are older, but there are very few who are old and active on the cross-talk stage. Among these active veteran actors, Li Boxiang is a very prominent one.
Li Boxiang is now 83 years old, after all, his elderly body is actually not completely good, but as long as he is on stage, he is still alive and well, and his mouth is still as sharp and powerful as it was then. Just a few years ago, he still performed cross-talk with a relatively large range of movements on the stage, which was really old and strong.
Just two years ago, Li Boxiang once had shingles, and his body was in great pain, but before he fell ill, he agreed to the performance invitation of others, and on the same day, he still endured the pain to participate in the performance, and performed for a long time in one breath, and the performance state made the audience not see that he was in pain at all.
This time, we will talk about this very popular old cross-talk actor.
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Li Boxiang performs a lot of cross-talk in Tianjin, but in fact, he is a Beijinger, born in a cross-talk family, and his father is Li Jiechen, the predecessor of cross-talk. When Li Boxiang was very young, he began to learn cross-talk with his father, and began to appear on stage at the age of 6, with a look, known as a little prodigy, from a young age, he followed his family to go south and north, and practiced cross-talk skills and performance experience.
Li Jiechen has a lot of contacts with many cross-talk actors, and when Li Boxiang could not speak, Li Jiechen told Zhao Peiru, a famous cross-talk artist, that if this child also speaks cross-talk in the future, you are his master. Later, Li Boxiang worshiped Zhao Peiru as his teacher.
In addition, li jiechen and Liu Baorui's relationship is also very good, Liu Baorui also taught Li Boxiang a lot of skills when he was a child, strict requirements, and even because he did not say a line, he beat him in front of his father.
However, Li Boxiang's road to fame was relatively bumpy, and for a long time after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he did not have the opportunity to speak cross-talk, and then began to teach others to perform in the Qu Art Troupe for a while, until he was once arranged to take the stage and was welcomed by the audience with Du Guozhi.
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Speaking of Li Boxiang, the audience is most familiar with his mouth. It was all practiced by master and other predecessors when I was a child, paying attention to fast and not chaotic, slow and continuous. Many people have listened to the traditional cross-talk "Reporting the Name of the Dish", listen to Li Boxiang's version, you can feel the charm of the language that hangs like a river, and it is a thousand miles away.
Not only is the traditional cross-talk, "Chat", "Two-Faced Man", "Family Party" these new cross-talk, but also can highlight Li Boxiang's good performance of the mouth, clear character characteristics, he was also jokingly called "Li Dabai Egg" by the audience, of course, this is also the name of the character in his cross-talk works.
In addition, the reason why Li Boxiang is so popular is also directly related to the help of his old partner Du Guozhi. The two began to cooperate in the late 70s, Li Boxiang was able to speak eloquently on stage, and Du Guozhi pretended to be thick, forming a sharp contrast, which was very conducive to character shaping, known as Li Du's golden partner.
Unfortunately, Du Guozhi died in 2014, and after Li Boxiang came to power, there was no fixed partner, and the tacit understanding of cooperation was worse.
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Finally, let's talk about Li Boxiang's apprentices. Li Boxiang is Zhao Peiru's eldest apprentice, he belongs to the actors of the literary generation, and his apprentices are even the Ming character generation, with Jiang Kun, Feng Gong, Guo Degang and others.
Li Boxiang had many disciples, at least about 20, of whom the more well-known disciples included Zheng Jian, Dai Zhicheng, and Wang Pingren.
I once went to the home of Teacher Li Boxiang in Tianjin and interviewed him in person, and I could feel his politeness and pride as the best of the older generation of cross-talk actors. He said that he himself is not a Tianjin actor or a Beijing actor, he is a cross-talk actor who belongs to the public and is popular everywhere. In addition, because of the solid foundation laid from childhood, the cross-talk lines in his head can never be forgotten for a lifetime.
Li Boxiang loves the stage, and he said that as long as he can stand on the stage, he will continue to talk about crosstalk.