He has just completed a two-week cultural exchange program in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, and has rushed to Singapore for a "four-year appointment". Yesterday, a 10-member troupe of Shanghai Pingtan Troupe arrived in Singapore to hold a guided tour at the Esplanade to "warm up" for tonight's performance.
The enthusiasm of the local audience was beyond the expectations of the planners and actors, and it was expected that the one-and-a-half-hour appreciation activity lasted for more than two hours, and the audience's question-and-answer session was "extended indefinitely" from the original half-hour until the theater was "urged" to close, and the audience was reluctant to disperse. Tickets for the evening show are also hard to find.
It's hot before acting. The "art appointment" between the Shanghai Pingtan Troupe and the Singapore audience was originally in 2020, and although it was postponed for a full 4 years, the audience was still enthusiastic. Last night's "warm-up" performance, many of the scene were young audiences who listened to the commentary for the first time, and the guided tour brought by Gao Bowen and Lu Jinhua included both "original ecology" tracks such as "Good Scenery in the South of the Yangtze River", "Yingying Playing the Piano" and "Love Detective", as well as new dramas that have been adapted. In particular, Gao Bowen played three roles in "Pearl Tower", which showed the ability of the actors to shape the roles, and also let the audience see the richness of this art. It is gratifying that there are many young people at the scene, who have "only heard its name, not its voice" for Pingdan, and their imagination of this art stays in the memories of their parents, and they gradually understand their obsession after experiencing it.
In the Q&A session, the younger generation was concerned about "Is this traditional art still popular?" "If I travel to Shanghai or Suzhou in the future, will I still hear the comments?" "I heard that even in today's Internet era, Pingtan still has a large number of audiences in the Yangtze River Delta, and there are still hundreds of bookstores in Shanghai, Suzhou and other cities, and listening to Pingtan has long become a daily ...... of Jiangnan people's livesIt relieved them, and the applause from the theater was the most sincere expectation in their hearts.
Four-city "circle fans".
Before going to the United States for cultural exchanges, the performance called "Dragon Teng Four Seas to Celebrate the New Year" brought together Gao Bowen, Wu Xinbo, Jiang Xiaobo, Huang Haihua, Zhou Hui, Lu Jiawei, Tao Yingyun, Zhu Lin 8 famous commentators, not only attracted old listeners from local and surrounding cities, but also "circled" new audiences from time to time.
The first stop of the cultural exchange was at the United Nations headquarters in New York, and when Wu Nong's soft words sounded, many staff members who had been away from their homeland for a long time moistened their eyes. Xu Haoliang, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, said that in the past, the United Nations ambassadors organized delegations to Shanghai and other cities in China every year to investigate, mostly focusing on economic development, and in the future, they should pay more attention to traditional culture.
The performance at Flushing Station was held at the local town hall, and the news of the performance was very popular. A professor couple who drove more than two hours from New Jersey to join the show and were busy buying flower baskets before lunch, their eyes were full of joy and pride when they presented the flower baskets to the actors: "I am really touched and proud to hear the voice from my hometown here." ”
Audience iteration. The biggest takeaway from performances in Los Angeles and San Francisco is that the audience is younger. Gao Bowen thought that he would see a lot of familiar faces at the scene, but he didn't expect that more of them would be new faces this time - some of them are new immigrants, some are international students, and their ages cover the post-70s, post-80s, and even post-90s.
chatting with them after the show, the younger generation said bluntly: "I have the impression that Pingtan is nothing more than a man and a woman sitting on both sides of a table, playing and singing, and they don't understand much when babbling." Unexpectedly, the two of them sang together, full of gimmicks, and they didn't even doze off. "Traditional opera must keep pace with the times and keep up with the pace of development of the times, not only relying on the passing of the torch on the stage, but also relying on the audience to update and iterate.
In addition to the full coverage of age, the "breaking circle" of the region is also a boost to the promotion of the bomb. At the scene, many Shanghainese brought their Fujian wives and Guangdong gentlemen to "appreciate the Jiangnan style", and they were very nervous at first, afraid that the other half would feel bored, and later they were surprised to find that "Pingtan has its own attractiveness".
The "double breaking circle" of age and geography means that Pingtan is expected to further win a wide audience overseas. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Yuan).