"No matter what time, don't forget that there is still a garden in your heart." As the epidemic gradually stabilized and life and production returned to order, on the evening of May 20, Shanghai Cultural Plaza led the audience into an artistic garden, which was broadcast live online. The 2022 performance season has been announced.
"At this moment of urgent excitement and anticipation, we hope to present a picture of a 'garden' where everything grows and spring is blooming for tens of thousands of viewers and industry partners," said Zhang Jie, general manager of Cultural Plaza.
"Tears in tears", "Crazy heartbeat", "I miss the sound of the bell", "I miss the musical, I miss the theater, I miss everyone"...On multiple official platforms of the Cultural Plaza, as well as multiple media platforms, online audiences are frantically brushing Excited barrage, many foreign audiences are looking forward to the trip to Shanghai.
That night, the 2017 premiere of the musical "My Bucket List", which was produced by Culture Square and premiered by Ayunga and Zhang Bojun, was officially photographed. It was also released online on the official platform of Culture Square. The song of life is also the song of healing given to the audience under the epidemic.
Adhering to the artistic orientation of "focusing on musicals, supplemented by fashionable and classic art", the cultural square has selected 39 performances, covering three major sections of musicals, dramas, stage plays and dance plays, and there are large plays and celebrities.
The musical section, the "Original Chinese Musical Show Season", a brand that has been deeply rooted in the Cultural Plaza for many years, will bring musicals "Stable Happiness", "Mandala of Tang Dynasty Strange Stories", "In the Distance" and "The Orphan of Zhao Family" ” and other 4 stations and 18 performances, showing the unique color of traditional culture and Chinese stories.
Cultural Plaza will also join forces with composer and music producer Sanbao to invite a number of powerful singers and musical actors to present a selection of Sanbao's musical repertoire concert "The End of the World", and colorful performances of "Golden Sands" and "Butterfly". The golden song in the play is directed by Sanbao. Popular musical actor Zheng Qiyuan's "Romantic Fate 2022" music party is also scheduled to start this summer.
In addition, Japan's Four Seasons Theater Company, which has been performing for 50 years and touched countless families, will be put on the Chinese stage for the first time in the Chinese version. The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time", adapted from the popular novel of the same name, also started production at the beginning of this year, and will tell a warm story about limited life and infinite true love.
In the drama and stage plays, more than ten large-scale adaptations of literary classics, such as "Broken Gold", "Four Generations Together", "Wotou Guild Hall", "Ordinary World", "Protagonist", "White Deer Plain" and "Sunrise", came one after another.
The drama "Broken Gold", starring Zhang Guoli, Wang Gang, and Zhang Tielin, depicts the escalating desires and upholding loyalty, benevolence and righteousness in a turbulent era; the play "Four Generations Together" produced by the National Theatre of China is adapted from Lao She's novel of the same name, directed by Tian Qinxin innovated on the premise of retaining the cultural tone of the original work, and vividly reproduced a civilian epic; "Wotou Club", which was written by Liu Heng, directed by Zhang Guoli, starred by Guo Degang and Yu Qian, focused on the struggling civilians in the bottom market, and will show the old The humorous irony of Beijing and the joys and sorrows of the world change.
In addition, Shaanxi People's Art Theater's "Mao Prize Trilogy" series of works "Ordinary World", "Protagonist" and "White Deer Plain" will all be staged this year, which is another artistic practice of the "staged" interpretation of Shaanxi's contemporary novels. The stage play "Sunrise", directed and performed by Jin Xing, will show the scene of two worlds of "excess" and "insufficient" in four scenes: dawn, dusk, midnight, and sunrise. "Wonderful Night at Dunhuang" and "Wonderful Night at Art Museum Starry Night" produced by Dachuan Culture will create an immersive space with exquisite special effects.
In the dance drama section, the popular dance drama "Only Green" on CCTV Spring Festival Gala this year will dance the famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". The dance drama "Confucius" connects the highlights of Confucius' life. The dance drama "Du Fu" depicts Du Fu's spiritual world with dance. The dance drama "Grand Hotel" moves the hotel space to the theater, reflecting the complex and rich human nature.
This autumn, the Cultural Plaza will also innovate a new space for performing arts, and cooperate with Shanghai Baofeng Culture to produce the "Meeting Oneself Two Parts" of "One-to-One Healing Theater". Long-term residency.
"Meeting Myself", "One Man's Game" and "One Man's Smile" were created by the Belgian avant-garde experimental theatre group Ontroerend Goed. The former burns the brain, while the latter challenges perception. Each performance will be led by several actors. In the form of "games", famous audiences open up their psychological space and broaden their theatrical experience.
In addition to the introduction of works, the cultural square also has a unique "production and performance season", which will bring 13 Chinese versions and original works in three major sections, including "new works of the year", "word-of-mouth works" and "incubation of Chinese original musicals".
The "New Works of the Year" includes 3 musicals including "The Interstellar Messenger", "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "Shakespeare Paradise", all of which will be completed and premiered within the year.
The Chinese version of "Interstellar Messenger" is another new work of the "Small but Beautiful" series of musicals by Culture Square. It shows Galileo and Kepler's courage to pursue scientific truth in the process of studying the "heliocentric theory". The Chinese version of "The Count of Monte Cristo" will be performed as a masterpiece at the end of the year. The core creative team of the original version, including the Russian director and choreographer, will be specially invited to China to complete the creation together with the Chinese team. The Chinese version of "Shakespeare Paradise" allows the characters in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet" to step out of the paper, and work with the creator to create a new and unknown space.
Among the "Chinese Original Musical Incubation Works", the 2019 incubating works "Life and Death", "The Queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty" and "I'm Sorry, I Forgot" will continue to open the performance round this year, and in 2020, the incubating and accredited works "" Inaccessible" and "South Wall Project" will have their national premieres in October 2022 and May 2023, respectively.
At the same time, 5 "word of mouth" self-produced works by Cultural Square, such as "Rachmaninoff", "My Bucket List", "Maybe a Happy Ending", "Fan Letter" and "Romeo and Juliet", will also return Shanghai, and a new round of national tour.
On the night of the release of the performance season, the Cultural Plaza was online for the first time and released the official photo of the 2017 premiere version of "My Bucket List".
"My Bucket List" condenses the extreme situation of life into a square inch stage, and tells the story of Yang Xiaoyu, who tried to commit suicide, and Liu Bao, who was terminally ill, to complete the wish list together. Since the premiere, the adventure tour of the two teenagers has become very popular. They have toured 161 times across the country, covering more than 30 cities, attracting 113,000 audiences.
This online broadcast is a feedback from the cultural square to the audience's voice, and it is also a healing song given to the audience under the epidemic. "The most fascinating thing about this work is that no matter how time passes and how the actors on the stage change, this story is very close to people." The first-generation starring A Yunga and Zhang Bojun hope that the return of "List" can Bring hope and inspiration to everyone.
"Choosing a good show and doing a good show is the consistent pursuit of the Cultural Plaza, and it is also where we live." Fei Yuanhong, deputy general manager of the Cultural Plaza, said that most of the good plays in the past came from overseas. In the past two years, the Cultural Plaza has insisted on investing more and more. More energy and deep cultivation of the domestic market, "We not only undertake the basic functions of theater operation, but also hope to become a domestic benchmark brand musical content production organization and original musical incubator platform, and guard more shining seeds for the future development of Chinese musical theater art. ."
"At this moment of urgent excitement and anticipation, we hope to present a picture of a 'garden' where everything grows and spring is blooming for tens of thousands of viewers and industry partners," said Zhang Jie, general manager of Cultural Plaza.
"Tears in tears", "Crazy heartbeat", "I miss the sound of the bell", "I miss the musical, I miss the theater, I miss everyone"...On multiple official platforms of the Cultural Plaza, as well as multiple media platforms, online audiences are frantically brushing Excited barrage, many foreign audiences are looking forward to the trip to Shanghai.That night, the 2017 premiere of the musical "My Bucket List", which was produced by Culture Square and premiered by Ayunga and Zhang Bojun, was officially photographed. It was also released online on the official platform of Culture Square. The song of life is also the song of healing given to the audience under the epidemic.
Musical "My Bucket List"
The Musical "Fan Letter"
The musical "Orphan of Zhao"
Sanbao Musical Repertoire Selection Concert "The End of the World"
39 stations introduced performances, and big dramas gatheredAdhering to the artistic orientation of "focusing on musicals, supplemented by fashionable and classic art", the cultural square has selected 39 performances, covering three major sections of musicals, dramas, stage plays and dance plays, and there are large plays and celebrities.
The musical section, the "Original Chinese Musical Show Season", a brand that has been deeply rooted in the Cultural Plaza for many years, will bring musicals "Stable Happiness", "Mandala of Tang Dynasty Strange Stories", "In the Distance" and "The Orphan of Zhao Family" ” and other 4 stations and 18 performances, showing the unique color of traditional culture and Chinese stories.
Cultural Plaza will also join forces with composer and music producer Sanbao to invite a number of powerful singers and musical actors to present a selection of Sanbao's musical repertoire concert "The End of the World", and colorful performances of "Golden Sands" and "Butterfly". The golden song in the play is directed by Sanbao. Popular musical actor Zheng Qiyuan's "Romantic Fate 2022" music party is also scheduled to start this summer.
In addition, Japan's Four Seasons Theater Company, which has been performing for 50 years and touched countless families, will be put on the Chinese stage for the first time in the Chinese version. The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time", adapted from the popular novel of the same name, also started production at the beginning of this year, and will tell a warm story about limited life and infinite true love.
In the drama and stage plays, more than ten large-scale adaptations of literary classics, such as "Broken Gold", "Four Generations Together", "Wotou Guild Hall", "Ordinary World", "Protagonist", "White Deer Plain" and "Sunrise", came one after another.
The drama "Broken Gold", starring Zhang Guoli, Wang Gang, and Zhang Tielin, depicts the escalating desires and upholding loyalty, benevolence and righteousness in a turbulent era; the play "Four Generations Together" produced by the National Theatre of China is adapted from Lao She's novel of the same name, directed by Tian Qinxin innovated on the premise of retaining the cultural tone of the original work, and vividly reproduced a civilian epic; "Wotou Club", which was written by Liu Heng, directed by Zhang Guoli, starred by Guo Degang and Yu Qian, focused on the struggling civilians in the bottom market, and will show the old The humorous irony of Beijing and the joys and sorrows of the world change.
In addition, Shaanxi People's Art Theater's "Mao Prize Trilogy" series of works "Ordinary World", "Protagonist" and "White Deer Plain" will all be staged this year, which is another artistic practice of the "staged" interpretation of Shaanxi's contemporary novels. The stage play "Sunrise", directed and performed by Jin Xing, will show the scene of two worlds of "excess" and "insufficient" in four scenes: dawn, dusk, midnight, and sunrise. "Wonderful Night at Dunhuang" and "Wonderful Night at Art Museum Starry Night" produced by Dachuan Culture will create an immersive space with exquisite special effects.
In the dance drama section, the popular dance drama "Only Green" on CCTV Spring Festival Gala this year will dance the famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". The dance drama "Confucius" connects the highlights of Confucius' life. The dance drama "Du Fu" depicts Du Fu's spiritual world with dance. The dance drama "Grand Hotel" moves the hotel space to the theater, reflecting the complex and rich human nature.
This autumn, the Cultural Plaza will also innovate a new space for performing arts, and cooperate with Shanghai Baofeng Culture to produce the "Meeting Oneself Two Parts" of "One-to-One Healing Theater". Long-term residency.
"Meeting Myself", "One Man's Game" and "One Man's Smile" were created by the Belgian avant-garde experimental theatre group Ontroerend Goed. The former burns the brain, while the latter challenges perception. Each performance will be led by several actors. In the form of "games", famous audiences open up their psychological space and broaden their theatrical experience.
Dance drama "Only Green"
Drama "Broken Gold"
Drama "Four Generations Together"
"The Protagonist"
13 self-made works, emerging vigorouslyIn addition to the introduction of works, the cultural square also has a unique "production and performance season", which will bring 13 Chinese versions and original works in three major sections, including "new works of the year", "word-of-mouth works" and "incubation of Chinese original musicals".
The "New Works of the Year" includes 3 musicals including "The Interstellar Messenger", "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "Shakespeare Paradise", all of which will be completed and premiered within the year.
The Chinese version of "Interstellar Messenger" is another new work of the "Small but Beautiful" series of musicals by Culture Square. It shows Galileo and Kepler's courage to pursue scientific truth in the process of studying the "heliocentric theory". The Chinese version of "The Count of Monte Cristo" will be performed as a masterpiece at the end of the year. The core creative team of the original version, including the Russian director and choreographer, will be specially invited to China to complete the creation together with the Chinese team. The Chinese version of "Shakespeare Paradise" allows the characters in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet" to step out of the paper, and work with the creator to create a new and unknown space.
Among the "Chinese Original Musical Incubation Works", the 2019 incubating works "Life and Death", "The Queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty" and "I'm Sorry, I Forgot" will continue to open the performance round this year, and in 2020, the incubating and accredited works "" Inaccessible" and "South Wall Project" will have their national premieres in October 2022 and May 2023, respectively.
At the same time, 5 "word of mouth" self-produced works by Cultural Square, such as "Rachmaninoff", "My Bucket List", "Maybe a Happy Ending", "Fan Letter" and "Romeo and Juliet", will also return Shanghai, and a new round of national tour.
On the night of the release of the performance season, the Cultural Plaza was online for the first time and released the official photo of the 2017 premiere version of "My Bucket List".
"My Bucket List" condenses the extreme situation of life into a square inch stage, and tells the story of Yang Xiaoyu, who tried to commit suicide, and Liu Bao, who was terminally ill, to complete the wish list together. Since the premiere, the adventure tour of the two teenagers has become very popular. They have toured 161 times across the country, covering more than 30 cities, attracting 113,000 audiences.
This online broadcast is a feedback from the cultural square to the audience's voice, and it is also a healing song given to the audience under the epidemic. "The most fascinating thing about this work is that no matter how time passes and how the actors on the stage change, this story is very close to people." The first-generation starring A Yunga and Zhang Bojun hope that the return of "List" can Bring hope and inspiration to everyone.
"Choosing a good show and doing a good show is the consistent pursuit of the Cultural Plaza, and it is also where we live." Fei Yuanhong, deputy general manager of the Cultural Plaza, said that most of the good plays in the past came from overseas. In the past two years, the Cultural Plaza has insisted on investing more and more. More energy and deep cultivation of the domestic market, "We not only undertake the basic functions of theater operation, but also hope to become a domestic benchmark brand musical content production organization and original musical incubator platform, and guard more shining seeds for the future development of Chinese musical theater art. ."
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