Chinanews.com, Beijing, February 26 (Reporter Ying Ni) The original musical "Picking the Stars" kicked off its 2023 tour at the Beijing Poly Theater on the evening of the 25th.

　　The musical "Picking the Stars" is named after Li Bai's "Night in the Mountain Temple" famous line "You can pick the stars with your hands". From different perspectives, approach each virtual character and experience a story about growth, choice, love and glory.

　　Poly Performing Arts invites Chinese and foreign teams to cooperate to add an international color to the oriental fantasy story.

"It is interesting and meaningful to bring excellent Chinese original IP to the theater stage, to give more audience reasons to enter the theater, and to add more possibilities to the theater performance form. This makes us enjoy the creation and performance very much. Every moment." The main creative team said in an interview.

At the beginning of the project, the main creative team decided to choose Western musicals as the carrier, and to retain a clear oriental traditional charm for the core of the story.

　　To achieve this goal, the "Picking the Stars" team specially invited European director Martino Muller to be responsible for the stage effects and presentation, while the Chinese team was coordinated by director Zhou Xiaowei.

In order to dig deep into the essence of the "Glory of the King" IP, Zhou Xiaowei deliberately downloaded the game to gain a comprehensive understanding of the latter.

After four years of polishing and creation and the full cooperation of first-line professional musical drama creation teams at home and abroad, the play has extracted Chinese cultural elements and symbols with historical heritage value, empowered content and experience with digitalization, and integrated it through diversified art forms. It also introduces new artistic expressions to the original IP.

"Picking the Stars" still photo courtesy of the crew

　　It is worth mentioning that, as the first original musical derived from digital IP, on the basis of respecting IP, "Picking the Stars" also respects the stage art enough. Enjoyed a wonderful musical.

It is reported that "Picking the Stars" will also be invited to perform overseas this year. It is not only actively showing China's excellent cultural content on the world stage, but also a new attempt to transform digital cultural IP, showing the charm of Chinese pop culture to the world. with confidence.

　　The organizer stated that in the field of culture, digital technology led by game IP is continuously contributing to the development of the digital economy, boosting offline consumption, and promoting the integrated development of multiple industries, giving full play to its important role as an economic lubricant. effect.

The digital IP original Chinese musical "Picking the Stars" explores the new direction of cultural IP cross-border cooperation in the era of digital economy through the "digital IP + cultural entity industry" model.

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