China News Service, Beijing, June 21 (Reporter Ying Ni) The musical "Blooming", based on Zhang Guimei, the winner of the "July 1st Medal", was officially announced on the 21st.

Lei Jia, a famous singer, a national first-class actor, and vice chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association, served as the artistic director of the play. Singer Tan Weiwei appeared on the stage of the musical again after five years.

　　The musical "Blooming" is closely linked to the two key words of Zhang Guimei's life: "dedication" and "change". It is adapted from a real person and tells the story of her rooting in the mountainous area of ​​Yunnan for more than 40 years, promoting the establishment of China's first free girls' high school, helping Nearly 2,000 girls have fulfilled their dreams of college campuses, retaining the opportunity for students to change their destiny with knowledge, and defending every girl's right to dream with their mind and body and great love.

　　The play has gathered an excellent creative team in the industry: Lei Jia, a famous singer, a national first-class actor and vice chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association, serves as the artistic director, the national first-class screenwriter Feng Baiming serves as the drama director, and the young playwright Feng Bilie serves as the screenwriter. Shen Dan is the composer, and the famous musical and opera director Liao Xianghong is the director.

It also gathered first-line mainstream musical actors with excellent popularity and acting skills both inside and outside the group, such as Tan Weiwei, Hou Yansong, Yu Yueyue, Yang Zhuqing, and Hong Zhiguang.

They play important roles in the play, interpreting responsibilities and dreams with affection.

This is also Tan Weiwei's first appearance on the stage of the musical after the musical "The Love of Alz Memory" in five years.

The producer hopes to present the story of the role model through the popular musical art form, get rid of the masked image that is easy to appear in the creation of heroic models, and show Zhang Guimei's personal emotion, social responsibility and dedication in the process of creating a flesh-and-blood, multi-dimensional role model image. Spirit and other heroic qualities.

Photo courtesy of China Oriental Performing Arts Group for the poster of the musical "Blooming"

　　It is worth mentioning that the play is a brand-new masterpiece that has been carefully prepared by China Oriental Performing Arts Group to continue the popular dance drama "Only This Green".

From "Green" to "Blooming" of Guimei, from exploring the beauty of Chinese classical art to the realistic themed stage play that deeply explores the beauty of contemporary Chinese human nature, China Oriental Performing Arts Group insists on "telling Chinese stories with art" and is committed to It is an important practice in creating the basic positioning and value pursuit of art works with "muscles, bones, morality and warmth".

The play is supported by the prototype character Zhang Guimei, and is funded by the 2022 National Arts Fund Large-scale Stage Play and Work Creation Project.

　　At the same time, the birth of the musical "Blooming" is a new chapter in the cooperation between the Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and the China Oriental Performing Arts Group.

It is also the first stage art work performed by the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture Ethnic Culture Work Troupe in cooperation with a troupe directly under the central government.

As early as the beginning of 2021, the Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism will go to the scene with the China Oriental Performing Arts Group and the main creative team to collect styles. It took a year and a half of careful preparation to create artistic works with Chinese characteristics and Yunnan national characteristics, telling the story of the 40 years rooted in the mountainous areas of Yunnan. The typical deeds of Zhang Guimei, a "new Yunnan native" for more than a year.

　　The musical "Blooming" is jointly produced by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, China Oriental Performing Arts Group, Beijing Poly Theater Management Co., Ltd., and People's Daily Online Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Jucheng Network Technology Co., Ltd., and Jiantou (Beijing) Culture Co., Ltd. , Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture Ethnic Culture Working Troupe jointly produced, China Oriental Performing Arts Group, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture Ethnic Culture Working Troupe performed.

According to the plan, the play will premiere in Beijing in September 2022, and after the premiere, it will go on a national tour in Poly Cinemas and Jucheng Cinemas.

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