Legend of Tomorrow

CCTV5 also played some tricks in its live broadcast of the musical this time, and it was full of gimmicks. Fei Xiang, a famous star born in the 1960s, was invited as a guest. Even before the official opening, the channel's ratings are already very high.

Fei Xiang is a legend in the Chinese entertainment industry. He graduated from Taipei Shilin American School in 1978 and was admitted to Stanford University in the United States with honors to study medicine. A year later, he transferred to the drama department of Stanford University, and then entered New York City to major in stage performance. This kind of person is a super academic.

Fei Xiang was once famous all over China. At the 1987 Spring Festival Gala, he sang Clouds from My Hometown and women all over the country wanted to write him love letters.

In 1989, Fei Xiang held a total of 65 concerts in 12 cities in mainland China. The Central News Film Studio at that time also shot the documentary film Fei Xiang and His Song in conjunction with this tour. After the concert tour, Fei Xiang bid farewell to the Chinese pop music scene, went to New York to pursue the development of musicals and stage plays, and began his new pursuits and challenges.

In 1991, Fei Xiang competed to participate in the musical Miss Saigon and became a cast member. Later, he appeared in musicals such as Hot Key and Nico and Nora. Soon he was selected by Andrew Weber as one of the four lead singers in his special work. He toured more than 40 cities in the United States and also played the role of Phantom.

Fei Xiang's achievements in the United States are very high, but musicals in China are a niche, and not many people like and follow him, so his popularity has declined a lot in China.

In 1997, he promoted musicals in China and translated some classic songs into Chinese. After learning about this, he was happy to be a guest.

Fei Xiang first briefly introduced the background of the story, and then the musical began. He would explain some parts that were difficult for the audience to understand.

The story of the musical is basically the same as that of the movie. Guo Xu will not appear until some time later, waiting backstage.

Siara, who was starring for the first time, was restless and nervous. Guo Xu, who had already finished the phantom look, walked up to her, gently stroked her head, and encouraged: You can do it, because you are Christine -Dai Ye.”

Siela was stunned for a moment, smiled, and her confidence suddenly returned.

Guo Xu is right, she is very similar to Christine in reality, this is a true performance. She suddenly became the heroine of this drama, as if it were a drama within a drama, and Guo Xu did teach her a lot like the phantom.

What Guo Xu teaches is not singing, but acting, which is better than Patrick Wilson, who has been in Hollywood for many years. This made Siara feel incredible. Guo Xu told her how to improve her acting skills, and the teaching was as professional as a teacher teaching students in a film and television school.

(He really was a teacher)

Some of Guo Xu's small details are designed very exquisitely. Siara will excel as long as she performs according to his instructions. Singing is something she is good at, even better than Guo Xu. As long as she performs well, she will be foolproof.

It opens with an auction, using a flashback technique. The elderly Viscount Raul takes a picture of a monkey music box. Then the item being auctioned was a gorgeous chandelier, and the auction host talked about the supernatural incident of the Phantom of the Opera, which led to the theme.

After a brief introduction about the disaster and the restoration of the damaged chandelier, the orchestra began playing the theme song while the cloth covering the chandelier was pulled up.

Before Guo Xu even appeared on the stage, many viewers were a little shocked because the crew actually hung a large ceiling above the arena. In order to study how to avoid the big screen in the arena and not affect the progress of the subsequent basketball game, the people at the Grand Theater used their brains and worked hard for two days when arranging the stage props.

In order to accommodate this performance, the league deliberately changed the time of the Rockets' last game to facilitate the crew's stage arrangement. The Rockets had no game four days before the All-Star Weekend, which allowed Guo Xu and others to successfully conduct rehearsals on Wednesday and Thursday.

The first act is the performance time for the supporting actors. The singers and extras of the Grand Theater worked very hard.

Because Guo Xu did not appear, in order to stabilize the Chinese audience, the three hosts narrated together.

Fei Xiang explained that there are three ingenious play-within-a-play settings in the play. The scene of Phantom of the Opera is set at the Paris Opera House, so opera performance is an important clue throughout the entire film.

The wonderful thing is that the three scenes within the play written by Andrew Webb not only bring an audio-visual feast to the audience, but also echo each other with the plot, making the plot coherent and bringing emotional impact to the audience, adding to the story. The development of the plot provides hints, foreshadowing and setting clues, indicating the emergence or intensification of conflicts, and giving the viewer a sense of wandering between reality and illusion.

The first act is the rehearsal of the play-within-a-play Hannibal. When the crowd sings Listen to the drums, Hannibal has arrived, it means that the Phantom who has been hiding in the opera house for a long time is about to appear. Because Hannibal's ferocity and aggressiveness are exactly the same as Phantom.

The Hannibal has arrived here is like the Phantom coming out of the dank and dark sewer, wearing a black mask and a black cloak, and the evil aura blows towards the face, giving the viewer a strong hint. , and also pave the way for the next scene. The bloody prop heads in the rehearsal of Hannibal gave the audience a strong psychological shock, and also reminded the future Phantom of murders in order to achieve the goal by any means.

Most Chinese audiences don't care about this and find it unattractive at all. They even start to feel sleepy. Many people send text messages asking the protagonist Guo Xu why he hasn't appeared yet?

Mermaid Ciara set off the first climax of the musical.

Her acting skills as Christine completely surpassed the heroine in the movie version. When she was called out by Mrs. Gilly to sing, she hunched over and couldn't stand up straight. Her face was full of nervousness and she looked unconfident. . After singing two lines, she even wanted to run. Mrs. Gilly knocked the ground with her cane before she stopped.

This small detail caught people's attention, and then Kristen's singing gradually became better. After a quick change of clothes on the stage, she was no longer nervous. She even pulled her scarf and matched it with rich body language, making her come alive.

Next, Kristen talked to her friend Meg about the music angel, and met her childhood sweetheart Viscount Raul.

At this time, all the professional film critics who came to watch the show had already recognized Siara. Her acting skills were so good that no one expected. Many people are ready to use this to criticize Guo Xu, thinking that it is difficult for him to compare his acting skills with two professionals, and the gap will definitely be huge.

Who would have thought that during rehearsals, Guo Xu was the master? Patrick was also convinced by his performance.

After Raoul left the door, Guo Xu finally opened his voice and sang a verse without showing up.

He attracted everyone as soon as he opened his mouth. Arrogant boy, slave of fashion, revel in your glory! Ignorant fool, this brave young suitor, enjoy the fruits of my victory!

Guo Xu's voice was rich and high-pitched, like a chicken's blood. It was completely different from when he sang pop songs. The fans who came to the scene were stunned.

Is this sung by Jason Guo? It doesn’t quite look like it!

Christine, are all your angels so chicken-blooded?

The playwright Andrew became excited. He admired Guo Xu's acting style the most. His singing was great. He showed the Phantom's strong possessiveness as soon as he opened his mouth. He started to show off his acting skills before even showing his face. He was the one least worried about Guo Xu's performance, as he had already seen the complete rehearsal before.

He knew that the surprise was yet to come...