The "No Hard Work" concert will appear in the Shanghai business district, Lao Bai's "No Hard Work in vain", the musical "The Myth of Love" will be sung on May Day
On Anfu Road, the crowd is bustling, and the entanglement and ambiguity of men and women in eating and drinking are still being staged in the living room of Lao Bai's house... Accompanied by the friendly Shanghainese, on May 2, the musical "The Myth of Love" was revived at the Majestic Theater A new round of performances has begun, with fresh faces such as Liu Lingfei, Shi Zheming, Liu Haoran, Xu Xiang, Wang Mian, Zhao Chaofan, Jing Yanqiao, Feng Difei, etc. joining in, allowing the audience to experience limited-edition high heels, Internet celebrity coffee and handmade butterfly pastries. Shanghai style sentiment.
In October last year, the Shanghai-language musical "The Myth of Love" adapted from the movie of the same name successfully premiered at the Shanghai Cultural Plaza for six consecutive performances. Under the continuous urging of the audience, the musical "The Myth of Love", which has been revised and polished for half a year, returns to the stage during the May Day holiday this year and will be performed at the Majestic Theater for 21 consecutive performances starting from May 2.
In addition to the original lineup of Zong Juntao, Wang Hao, Zhao Yijie, Jiang Qianru, Ding Zhenying, Zhao Jiayan, Xu Lei, Nian Manting, Hamza, Guo Zhenyan, etc., Liu Lingfei, Shi Zheming, Liu Haoran, Zhao Chaofan, Jing Yanqiao, Feng Difei, etc. are different from Shanghai Musical actors from Yuan Yuan will also make their Shanghainese musical debut. Talk show actor Wang Mian and Shanghai Opera actor Xu Xiang star in crossover roles. The spectrum of human nature is refracted and amplified under the interpretation of different casts. After the laughter, there is endless aftertaste.
This year, for the first time, Shanghai Jing’an Modern Drama Valley has implanted cultural IP into an important commercial landmark in Jing’an, innovating a new model for transforming cultural traffic into market consumption. As one of the longest-running plays in Jing'an Modern Drama Valley, "The Myth of Love" brings the art stage into the public arena and moves "Lao Bai's home" into Zhang Garden in the form of a special pop-up store. The drama team teamed up with Blue Bottle Coffee and Mi Qing Shop to launch a limited-edition special drink and snack making workshop, invited actors and audiences from the drama to attend drama afternoon tea, and held 5 drama sharing sessions and workshops in the pop-up store to share the crew's tips. Interesting anecdotes before and behind the scenes, making full use of the advantages of the commercial complex to create a new form of cultural, business and tourism linkage.
As the curtain of "Love Myth" opens, more innovative gameplays are unlocked one by one. In the play, Lao Bai mentioned many times that the location of his personal "Hard work in vain, not hard work" concert was at Grand Gateway Plaza 66. This is not a line, but a real concert - at 3 pm on May 19, the starring actors in the play will appear at Grand Gateway Plaza 66 to give a carefully choreographed concert. The crew will also appear in the "May 5th Shopping Festival" global live broadcast to promote "The Myth of Love" to audiences at home and abroad.
From the first performance on the 2nd, it is not difficult to find that the "Shanghai content" of the musical "The Myth of Love" has further increased, with many new Shanghainese actors added, and non-Shanghai actors who are unwilling to be labeled as "pidgin" also After working hard and with the help of Shanghainese instructor Xu Lei, the pronunciation of Shanghainese became much more pure, and the "Hupu" that popped up from time to time made people feel quite friendly. Some lines have been adjusted to better fit the Shanghainese context and more accurately convey the emotional ups and downs of the characters.
"Myth of Love" abandons long-standing Shanghai symbols such as the Oriental Pearl Tower and the Bund, and shifts its focus to new urban cultural landmarks such as Anfu Road, giving shoe repair shops and coffee shops at the entrance of the alleys a corner. Compared with the linear narrative of movies, musicals focus on the exploration and display of points and surfaces, placing the characters' inner conflicts and entanglements and the misunderstandings of reality in front of the audience.
Compared with last year's performance, the stage and viewing space of the Majestic Theater have become more compact, and the crew has also adjusted some stage arrangements to shorten the distance between "streets" and show the excitement of urban life. In the song part, the creative team once again amplified the color contrast of different genres. In terms of jazz tone, tap, tango, rock, pop and other music styles complement each other. From the homophones of "chives and eggplant" and "country knight" to the appreciation of both elegance and vulgarity of Beethoven, Chopin, Bruckner and Guaiguai Long Di Dong, the audience watched with gusto.
