Shanghai Performing Arts World Resident Brand Performance, the one-legged play "Laughter at Shikumen", will welcome the 100th commemorative performance at SAIC Shanghai Culture Square on June 20.
The drama originates from the idea of "from Shikumen to Tiananmen", and the epitome of "Shanghai Manufacturing, Shanghai Service, Shanghai Shopping and Shanghai Culture" is shown around the people's food, clothing, housing and transportation... "The Laughter of Shikumen" not only makes the old Shanghai people deeply relive how Shanghai has entered a new era of prosperity under the leadership of the party, experiencing rapid urban changes, and also let the new Shanghai people feel the new face of this international financial capital and the future Asian performing arts center. Immerse yourself in the spirit of a city that embraces all kinds of rivers and embraces, which is hidden beneath this face.
Since its premiere in September 2018, this local opera produced by Shanghai Yidong Tianxia Culture Communication Co., Ltd. and deeply rooted in the world of performing arts has been performed 100 times in less than three years, and has been watched by 75,000 people in less than three years, becoming a veritable "dark horse" in Shanghai's entertainment circle.
<h4>"Morning News , Thoughtful" related reports</h4>
👉 "The Laughter of Shikumen" Xu Peilin: Half of the audience did not refund the ticket, unconditionally "supported" us!
Standing at the time node of the 100th session to review and look forward, Mao Mengda and Shen Ronghai sighed:
"It's been a tough ride, but we're happy that the 100-game record is not 'hard work'. Even if our old partners are more than 130 years old, they are still willing to contribute to shanghai culture and be willing to be the 'laughing children' of Shanghai culture. ”
It is reported that the performance was co-sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Huangpu District CPC Committee, the Huangpu District Commission of Commerce, the Huangpu District Culture and Tourism Bureau, the Xinmin Evening News Agency, and the Oriental Satellite TV Center.
<h2>Celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Party, the 100th guest lineup is luxurious</h2>
The one-legged play "The Laughter of Shikumen" is performed in the traditional double-stage form of one-legged play with the Shanghai symbol Shikumen as the background, and the work wraps the core of the traditional one-legged play with the help of the outer packaging of the talk show. Shanghainese people's food, clothing, and housing are all included in this one-legged play. In the past three years of performance, "The Laughter of Shikumen" has maintained the characteristics of "often performing changxin, changxin often performing", not only adding fresh and hot "daily news" provided according to the Xinmin Morning Post, but also using the "funny hot spots" created in real time to analyze and comment on the focus news, and playing the unique characteristics of one-legged play flexibility and flexibility and needle punching.
To celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the one-legged play "Laughter at Shikumen" moved the 100th commemorative performance to SAIC Shanghai Culture Square. Old audiences know that each performance of the one-legged play "The Laughter of Shikumen" has a hidden Easter egg - that is, a mysterious guest is invited to count the origins of the Shanghai local music and art one-legged play, and performs a good performance on the spot. The 100th commemorative performance, the guest lineup is even more extraordinary.
In the evening, the famous soprano Huang Ying will bring a solo singing of "I Love You, China" (tentative), well-known voice actors Ding Jianhua and Song Huaiqiang will recite "From Shikumen to Tiananmen", and Peking Opera actor Fu Xiru will also bring wonderful singing segments. It is worth mentioning that the three Shanghai masterpieces selected for the "Red Classic Drama Exhibition Season Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China" - Shanghai opera "Woman Picking Mountains", Yue opera "Mountains and Seas Love", and acrobatic drama "Battle Shanghai" will also perform wonderful clips in the 100th commemorative performance.
<h2>The long-established brand helps, and the food, clothing, housing and transportation are integrated into the culture of Shanghai</h2>
Today, with the deep integration of culture and tourism, high-quality Shanghai manufacturing, refined Shanghai services, and all-round Shanghai shopping all reflect the Shanghai culture with Shanghai heritage and constantly innovating. The long volume of urban style shown in the one-legged play "The Laughter of Shikumen" is also inseparable from the figure of Shanghai manufacturing, Shanghai service, and Shanghai shopping.
I heard that the 100th commemorative performance of the one-legged play "The Laughter of Shikumen" is about to be staged, and more than ten long-established brands in Shanghai have also come to help. Three Guns Group, Lao Fengxiang, Lao Dachang, Xinghualou Group, Shao Wansheng, Dafugui, Yuyuan Shares, and other old brands involving all aspects of Shanghai people's clothing, food, housing, and travel are conceived in the city, and also accompany the city's ups and downs. The tempering of the years and the joint efforts of generations of Shanghainese have achieved this shining "golden signboard", engraved behind the "golden signboard" is The mind and pragmatic and innovative spirit of Shanghai.
This time, it was decided to move the 100th commemorative performance to SAIC Shanghai Culture Square, and the idea came from the strategic partner of the one-legged play "Laughter of Shikumen" - Shanghai Sangun (Group) Co., Ltd. "Three Guns" is a leading enterprise in Shanghai's textile industry, which has always paid attention to and supported the growth and development of local cultural brands, accompanied the one-legged play "Laughter of Shikumen" along the way, and jointly wrote a good story of Shanghai famous brand enterprises and Shanghai cultural intangible cultural heritage.
It is reported that with the opportunity of the 100th commemorative performance of the one-legged play "The Laughter of Shikumen", the "Three Guns" will also fully carry out the activity of "Listening to Time and Looking for the Three Guns". Children born and raised in Shanghai, who do not have the warm memory of "three guns brand cotton sweater pants", to retain this memory, is to retain the taste of childhood, to retain a piece of nostalgia.
In the view of Wu Xiaoming, deputy head of the major literary and art creation group in Shanghai, the one-legged play "The Laughter of Shikumen" is a successful case of converting works into products and then upgrading them into commodities.
"This performance not only highlights the charm of the local cultural heritage one-legged play itself, but also shows the charm of the city of Shanghai in a 360-degree full dimension."
He confessed:
"The one-legged actors use carefully created passages to show the reliable quality of Shanghai manufacturing, thoughtful and ironed Shanghai service, and fashionable and convenient Shanghai shopping that does not lose New York, Paris and Tokyo." It can be said that if you understand "The Laughter of Shikumen", you will understand Shanghai! ”
<h2>The next hundred games of the journey, deeply rooted in the "big world of performing arts" to highlight the local strength</h2>
Performed 100 times in less than three years, with a cumulative audience of 75,000... The one-legged play "The Laughter of Shikumen" can achieve today's results, which is inseparable from the care of the Propaganda Department of the Huangpu District Party Committee and the Huangpu District Cultural and Tourism Bureau, and also from the strong support of the big world of performing arts.
After the first round of performances briefly tested the waters, "The Laughter of Shikumen" was deeply rooted in the Chinese Grand Theater, which was still newly renovated and opened at that time, for a resident performance. In the past three years, with the popular performance of this one-legged play, it has also leveraged the changes in the surrounding catering and even accommodation environment, so that the original slightly depressed Niuzhuang Road has flourished again. The example of a hot drama driving a party's night economy is also a useful exploration of the big world of performing arts in the combination of culture and tourism.
After the epidemic, the performing arts industry fell into a "shutdown", Mao Mengda and Shen Ronghai used the time of "home isolation" to create a lot of "epidemic prevention" small paragraphs, using a relaxed and humorous way to make people remember the importance of epidemic prevention and control. After the theater pressed the "restart button", the one-legged play "The Laughter of Shikumen" took the lead in resuming performance as the first play to return to the big world of performing arts. The "Mao Bamboo Shoot Combination" cleverly brings the changes brought by the epidemic to people's daily lives on the stage. They focused on the medical workers who are fighting in the frontline of the fight against the epidemic, spreading positive energy with one-legged plays, and soothing people's tense nerves with laughter, so that people can see the role of art in soothing the soul.
Standing at the node of 100 games, Mao Mengda and Shen Ronghai also maintained a sense of crisis at all times:
"I thought it was very satisfying to stick to the stage after retirement, but I really didn't expect that the one-legged play "The Laughter of Shikumen" could be performed to 100 times. This fully proves the charm of the one-legged play, and also makes us understand the audience's desire for laughter. As local music practitioners in Shanghai, we have the responsibility to make the 'laughter of Shikumen' spread farther and longer. 100 games can only be seen as a stage victory, it is both the end of a journey and the beginning of the next new journey. We are willing to think about and innovate the development of one-legged plays in the new era with the mentality of returning to zero, and be willing to be the 'laughing son and grandson' of Shanghai culture. ”
Source: Thoughtful