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Harmonic drama is not like stand-up comedy in the north, nor is it like the "one-legged play" in Shanghai, and even a form called "clarinet" that appeared in Sichuan in the late 1930s is also very different. The comedy is mainly performance, through an actor playing a character in the script in the first person, in a prescribed situation, with specific actions, vivid language, vivid appearance to show a small story.
In 1939, Wang Yongsuo, the founder of the opera, wrote and performed the first comedy "Selling Plasters". In 1943 he officially named the new song "Harmonic Drama". Since then, Wang Yongsuo has successively created and performed more than 20 contical dramas such as "Pickpocket", "Yellow Inspector", "Catching a Car", "Meeting", "Drinking" and so on. Later, he created and performed new plays such as "On the Train", "Hitting 100", "Getting Married", "Tap" and so on.
In 1963, because of a special performance of Wang Yongsuo's opera, Shen Fa fell deeply in love with this art. Self-taught and imitated the harmonic drama for more than ten years, Shen Fa determined his future artistic direction, and also touched the leadership of the provincial song and dance troupe. "I am particularly fond of harmonic drama, I am determined to learn this, I want to transfer to the Quyi Troupe (Sichuan Quyi Troupe was established in April 1963), and our leaders are also very supportive of me." In 1974, Shen Fa was officially transferred from the Song and Dance Troupe to the QuYi Troupe. "Our teacher also heard that I was studying harmonics when I was in the qu art troupe, and I heard something about it."
At that time, Wang Yongsuo could not take the stage, and could only manage the costumes, props, etc. behind the scenes, and the leader of the group arranged for him to guide Shen Fa to rehearse the comedy. "Teacher Wang is very willing to teach me. There was a student who came to learn harmony, and he felt that it was a good thing. "Wang Yongsuo's first play for Shen Fa was 'Twelve O'Clock Positive.'" The teacher taught me hand by hand, helping me to line up section by piece. After the queue, the next day I felt that it was not OK, and I started again. ”
Comedy was the art of laughter, but at the time, comedy wasn't as popular as it is now. Therefore, in order to meet the aesthetic needs of the time, Shen Fa's first comedy was changed and changed under the control of Wang Yongsuo, and rehearsed and rehearsed. "In the first performance, the teacher helped me to close the curtain. When I was on stage, he was even more nervous than I was. Watching the audience laugh and applause, he was even happier than I was. ”
One wanted to cultivate his own disciples, and the other wanted to get the Master's True Transmission, and Wang Yongsuo and Shen Fa hit it off. "The teacher gave me a rehearsal and a lecture on the truth of the harmonic drama, and slowly I got along better and better with his family, and officially became his disciple."
Shen Fa likes this art form very much, and has more than 10 years of self-study foundation, under the careful guidance of the "founding father" of the comedy, he quickly grew into an excellent harmonic actor. "Teacher Wang took me to the south and north, all the way to the scenery. All my honors are given to me by the comedy. ”
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