Inspiring actors to benchmark against world-class performance
"The City of Philharmonic" promotes Shanghai to become an internationally renowned musical center in the East
Reporter Jiang Fang
"I hope to work together with my music team to help and inspire local actors to work towards world-class standards, and to help Shanghai become a world-renowned musical theater in the east." Reporter interview.
As the music director of China's first full-industry-chain musical competition variety show "The City of Philharmonic", he is full of expectations for the show that will premiere on Dragon TV on March 12.
"I sincerely hope that after the actors have been tempered on the stage, they can have a level that complements Shanghai, the international city of philanthropy."
"The City of Love" gathers 32 local high-quality actors including Zheng Qiyuan, Cao Muzhi, Ye Qisheng, etc. They will advance according to the themes of different stages, show their comprehensive strength in singing, dancing and acting in the multi-play competition, and compete for the final "The Crown of Philharmonic".
The show will also combine classic IP plays at home and abroad to maximize the stage charm of musicals, and invite Liao Changyong, Zhang Yuqi, A Yunga, Huang Shujun, Ke Zhaolei, and Da Zhangwei as guests of the "Philharmonic Support Group" to give a good impression of the contestants' stage. The presentation will be comprehensively assessed to help the musical theatre industry truly reach the public and attract more audiences to the theatre and fall in love with musicals.
Encourage high-quality actors to "live up to their love and shine with strength"
"The development of musicals in China has a long way to go. Even some experienced and well-known Chinese musical actors still have a certain gap and deficiency compared with the overall professional standards of the world's top peers." In An Dong's view, musicals Actors must have the courage to step out of their comfort zone.
Therefore, in the "City of Philharmonic" program, whether it is "forced" to accept or "active" request, many players will challenge the range or style that they are not good at.
One of the major innovations of "The City of Philharmonic" is that two people will play a role in a segment of the same play.
"Such an intensive and intense stage competition mechanism for the same role is quite groundbreaking in the musical industry. In fact, the roles of musical actors include roles A, B and even C, and everyone will compete against each other and each other." Dong hopes that the actors can compete in a healthy way, and ultimately make progress together through mutual love, mutual assistance, and mutual support, so as to realize the theme of the show "live up to love and shine with strength".
Most of the 32 performers in the program are from the main domestic musical theater teaching units, such as Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Beijing Dance Academy, Central Academy of Drama, Shanghai Academy of Drama, and Shanghai Academy of Visual Arts.
"At present, most of the domestic musical actors who are active in the front line of the theater are trained by colleges and universities, which reflects the characteristics of the musical theater major's emphasis on the combination of production, education and research, in line with the market, and in sync with the times in talent training and teaching." An Dong said. Among the 32 contestants, students from the Department of Music and Drama of Shangyin accounted for the largest number, with 11 students in total; the music team in the program included the band director, music director, music editor, post-mixing and a number of arrangers, all of whom also graduated from Shangyin, which reflects the teaching and talent training achievements of Shangyin over the past 20 years.
Boost the art of musical theatre into thousands of households
As a modern stage comprehensive art form, musicals are more popular than other noble arts, but they are still fundamentally different from simple singing and dancing. It needs to combine narrative-based dramatic performances, beautiful and popular vocal singing and diversification. At the same time, it is necessary to form an overall stage effect with the assistance of stage arts such as costumes, scenery, and lighting.
Therefore, under the status quo that the viewing threshold for this drama is still relatively high, "City of Philharmonic" carries the important task of "breaking the circle" - making musicals no longer high and low, but "flying into the homes of ordinary people".
After a lot of research, the program team introduced a professional team and the "assistance group" mechanism, and played a combination of "reality show + competition", which will not only fully show the respect and love of the musical actors for the musical career - including them It will also attract more and more talents and audiences to the musical market by presenting numerous high-quality stages, thereby promoting the original ecological prosperity of Chinese musicals.
In addition, this variety show will build a whole industry chain platform business.
All-round layout from talent training, content production, IP development, etc., under the background of content segmentation and diversified consumption upgrades, gradually promote the transformation of domestic small theaters into new cultural consumption needs, and realize the market and the market for musicals. Word of mouth double harvest.
As far as the industry is concerned, "The City of Philharmonic" will comprehensively demonstrate the perseverance and love of the practitioners, record the whole process of the continuous popularity and improvement of musicals, and also hope to inspire the industry to produce more high-quality musicals and let the world Hear the voice of China.