China News Service, Beijing, August 11 (Reporter Gao Kai) On the Chinese Valentine's Day in 2020, a love-themed movie "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" had a double harvest at the box office.

Two years later, still in the summer season, the musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" appeared on the stage, telling the touching story of youthful love in another form.

　　The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time", produced by Damai Mailive and produced by "Of course there is a play", premiered on August 10 at the Beijing Tianqiao Art Center Grand Theater.

On that day, the multi-layered perspective scenes on the stage created a dreamy and fragmented visual impact in the interlacing of sound and light. The strong and in-depth stage vision also provided the audience with a broader imagination space, and pointed out the "time vortex". The theme concept of , the whole audience follows the story on the stage and travels in multiple time dimensions.

　　The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" is adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Zheng Zhi. It tells the story of a down-and-out writer Lu Chen and his character and best friend "Linger" who "reverse time" for A story about a long-forgotten love story that re-writes the ending.

In the story of writer Lu Chen, the hero Ringer flipped the watch left to him by his mother, and the time was instantly reversed, back to the time before Qiu Qian's accident... Ringer used the aging of his young life as the price, and exchanged his own time for Qiu Qian. Qian is alive.

　　On the basis of the original love line, the musical story adds two new characters: Lu Chen and Mei Yi.

The three lines of love, friendship, and family are parallel, and the self-transformation and growth of the four protagonists are presented in a three-dimensional manner, and the meaning of "love" is dig deeper.

　　The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" brings together experienced creative teams from China and South Korea.

Director Shi Lu has directed excellent works such as the classic Chinese version of the Four Seasons troupe musical "The Prince and the Beggar" and "The Enemy Little Witch"; the well-known Korean screenwriter Park Hae-rin has created the classic musicals "3 AM", "So Ordinary" and "Na" Bill", "Hourglass Lover" and many other excellent works; Composer/Arranger Min Canhong has created many classic musicals that are often performed, such as the musical "Laundry" and "The Life of Disapproved Songko". The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" also continues the composer's romantic style as always, with beautiful melody catchy, and the theme song "Love Begins From Oblivion" adds a touching emotion to the plot.

Photo courtesy of the premiere of the musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time"

　　The stage designer Tao Xiangju, the lighting designer Miao Chunyu, and the multimedia designer Bao Erwen also worked together to create a fantastic and beautiful stage visual effect for the play.

The five-level perspective scenes on the stage are combined with multimedia projections, sometimes representing real space, and sometimes becoming a tunnel that reverses time and space.

Tao Xiangju said, "Time is like a black hole, dissolving everything in reality into its huge gears. Or maybe there is no time at all, just the superposition of spaces to form time." The stage has different shapes and sizes. The scenes represent fragments of time and space. The translucent gauze material and the highly infectious lighting effects create a clever connection with the "time" theme of the play.

　　The story of the musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" spans decades. In the stage design, it reflects the passage of time through elements and tones with rich period characteristics.

In the stage scenes that represent the real space, whether it is an office, an Internet cafe, or Lu Chen's house, the overall design tone is dim.

In the clips recalling the youthful years, the setting is more contemporary.

Using a huge composition paper as the background, the designer reproduced the campus life of that era with freehand and symbolic techniques, perfectly replicating the blackboard newspapers, desks and chairs, and slogans on the playground in the classroom in the 1990s.

In the time and space after Linger's travel, the scene has a stronger sense of emotion: the inclined barbed wire, the crooked window, etc., are all metaphors of the current complex state of mind of the protagonist Linger.

　　Near the end, Ringer chose to travel back to the day he was born, and had an affectionate conversation with his father as a "stranger".

The benches that cross the stage in front of the delivery room, the dim yellow lights, and the very hypothetical stage design instantly bring the audience back to the hospital corridor in the 1980s, and also understand the indescribable ice of family love between Linger and his father. .

Photo courtesy of the premiere of the musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time"

　　The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" brings together a group of outstanding young actors, including young actor Lin Yanjun who is good at singing and dancing, and outstanding musical actor Aladdin as "Linger"; The young actors Wang Hanyu and Zhao Yanbo will play the down-and-out writer "Lu Chen"; and the expressive and narrating actor Pan Yilin will play Qiu Qian.

Li Xueyin and Yan Xiaobei have been well known to the audience as contestants of the variety shows "Dancer" and "City of Philharmonic" respectively. In this play, they also combined their own advantages to bring two different versions of "Mei Yi".

　　It is reported that this round of performances will last until August 14, and the next musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" will start a tour in Shenzhen, Foshan, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and other places.

(Finish)