[Net King] one step away

1,

It was after six months of rehearsals that Nioh finally received the notice that he could take the stage.

The announcement of Yagyu's appearance was also announced a few seconds later.

The Phantom of the Opera, The Phantom and the Viscount.

They have passed the assessment and participated in the rehearsal for six months. In the practice room, there are more than a dozen or 20 people participating in the selection of the same role, and the atmosphere of competition is suffocating.

But in comparison, they only participated in rehearsals for six months.

Very short very short.

Compared with the seniors who have participated in the rehearsal practice several times, but have been slumped in the last step of selection before going on stage, six months is really an extremely short time.

So they exchanged a look across the crowd.

It was like exchanging a kiss through the humid and stuffy air.

2,

Nioh and Yagyu are musical theater actors who were admitted to the theater troupe as graduate students at the same time, but survived the competition and stayed in the theater troupe.

The theater troupe signs once a year, and has a competitive evaluation system known as "one wrong note and get out" by the outside world. If newcomers come in and cannot adapt to the rules of the theater company, they will naturally have to leave in disgrace.

Both Nioh and Yagyu are very strong.If you want to leave, you have to leave because of subjective career development, and you can't leave because of lack of business ability.

So the two supported each other, and gradually played many roles, and gained a firm foothold.

In the same period, Nioh was famous for acting better than singing, and his acting skills were so good that everyone who watched it was impressed, but the pitch was considered by all the musical actors in the same period, "this person will be fired sooner or later because he sang the wrong sound".

He is not a professional. He participated in stage play interviews in high school, worked as a substitute for the B role in stage plays, learned dance for many years and worked as a backup dancer for many years.Manga stage plays do not have high professional requirements, and there are many young actors who sing out of tune. Nioh has acted in stage plays for a year. Although he has not appeared on stage many times, but also because of the course of this year, he has an unprecedented interest in stage plays.After college, he joined the musical theater club. He went to the Tokyo University of the Arts not far away to sit in when he had nothing to do. He learned singing skills from scratch, changed the position of his voice, and changed his clothes to mix up the class. Others used money to take classes for others. , he gave money to take classes for others, and he only dared to sit in the back row of large basic classes.

Yagyu has completely different characteristics from Nioh.He is a top student at Tokyo University of the Arts, majoring in piano in the instrumental department.His parents are performers and composers, and he has been fascinated by it since he was a child. His career plan has always been to give concerts in an orchestra.

Of course, he is not as a model student as he appears, a gentleman is his mask, and he is quite a rebellious person in his bones.

He found out the first time Renwang sneaked into the big classroom.

He is a person who loves reasoning and has strong observation skills.

Of course, the main reason he found out was that he knew that his roommate skipped class because of a date, and he even pretended to have found a solution, so when he found that almost identical face in the classroom, he thought his memory was flawed. problem.

Yagyu sat next to King Ni.

They went through the whole music theory class without saying hello.

After a few times, the two got to know each other.

King Ni said that in vain I was confused by your appearance at that time, a man as vile as you is actually a male god of Dongyi.

Did Liu Sheng just say that I am not qualified enough?

Qualified or qualified, King Yan Kongren was momentarily at a loss for words.

This is the first time Nioh meets his peers who are at a disadvantage in bickering.

His competitive spirit allowed him to keep in contact with Yagyu at an above-average frequency.

By the second year, they became friends.

3,

Liu Sheng asked him why he came to Dongyi to attend lectures.

King Ni said he wanted to learn to sing.

Then why not take the Eastern Arts?

I couldn't sing at all during the college entrance examination, how could Dongyi accept me.After finishing speaking, King Ni changed his point of view to explain his point of view, saying that he regards musicals as his best at present, and he learns to sing and sing and play by himself, otherwise he will feel disgusted if he goes out of tune on stage.But he doesn't want to turn his hobby into a career.

Yagyu later found out that Nioh was a student of Todai University.

Department of Finance.

He thought about it and felt that Nioh's words made sense.

After all, the high-achieving students of Dongda Finance can get a higher salary than an actor in a theater troupe if they find any job.There are few musical theater actors who can support themselves by acting. Except for the Four Seasons Troupe, the performance fees of other troupes are not enough for people's living expenses.

Then a few years later, he met Nioh—a dusty man, with no luggage and simply wearing a tracksuit, which made him look a little downcast, but with bright eyes.

Nioh said to him, Yagyu, I want to go to the Four Seasons Troupe, how about you prepare with me?

this liar.

Run the train with your mouth full.

What does it mean to just want to sing and have fun? !

You are going to take the exam for the Four Seasons Troupe, or are you just planning to sing and have fun? !

4,

That's right, Yagyu firmly believed that he didn't become a decent pianist, he went on a concert tour all over the world, and he went to apply for the Royal Orchestra to play piano in Vienna... It was all led away by Nioh.

After graduating from Dongyi University, he went to Juilliard for graduate school.

During his postgraduate study, he often received calls from Nioh, mostly asking him to help buy tickets for musicals.

Although I always complained that New York and Manhattan are far apart, you can buy tickets online as well as in Tokyo, and Broadway shows are held every day without missing tickets, but Yagyu responded readily every time he received a call. Next, go to the booking system to book two tickets.

It's all Nioh's fault.

Yagyu always thinks so when placing an order.

When they had been friends for a year, Nioh gave him a ticket to a musical after a class.

It's "The Phantom of the Opera", which happened to be on tour with the Four Seasons Troupe.

"My favorite musical." Nioh smiled at him with his head propped up, "Shall we go see it together?"

The Four Seasons Troupe performed "The Phantom of the Opera" in a special theater. The performance of the actors was hearty, and the whole soul was brought into the song.

At the curtain call, Liu Sheng realized that he had unconsciously clenched his fists.

Then he heard Nioh say to him, "It would be nice if I could play the Phantom one day."

"...do you like it?"

"Yeah." King Ni turned his head calmly, his eyes were bright, "And don't you think you are very suitable for the role of the Viscount? The image is the same~ If we can play the Phantom and the Viscount on the stage, it will be the most amazing thing."

Nioh won't talk about his understanding of Phantom, his understanding of this story.

Every time he talks about "The Phantom of the Opera", he will only give one comment, that is, he likes it.

"Do what you like as much as you can, otherwise life would be boring, puff~" Nioh would add some strange mouth fetishes when speaking in a soft voice, and Liu Sheng always seemed to be aroused by such mouth fetishes.

They later watched The Phantom of the Opera many times.

There are many performances on Broadway, and each performance has a different charm.

But what Yagyu remembers most clearly is the "Phantom of the Opera" that he saw in the "Sea" Theater that day.

I can fully understand Japanese.

Liu Sheng thought about it a little bit, completely ignoring the fact that he himself is a top student with straight A's studying in the United States.

5,

Nioh did not work in a financial company after graduation.

He took a graduation certificate and a degree certificate similar to the gold-lettered signature of Dongda University, and continued to work with the brother he knew when he was working in the dance troupe.Dancing, acting and filming can take any job.

He is good-looking, and has received many business cards from scouts. He has passed interviews for several stage plays, and he has also started appearing in variety shows and TV dramas.

He finds it interesting.

It's fun doing commercials, it's fun doing magazine shoots, it's fun walking in front of the camera and playing a stranger.

Being a nine-to-five white-collar worker in the cubicle is the most boring thing.

After gaining fame, he no longer plays B roles in stage plays, and his good-looking face can also allow him to get quite important roles.

Singing and dancing, listening to the cheers of the audience——

But still not enough.

Nioh found that his desire was not satisfied.

He remembered the first musical he saw, The Lion King by Four Seasons.

He has always liked this story, and he has watched the animated version many times, each time with the excuse that "brother wants to watch it", but his family knows that the person who wants to watch it is actually him.

Because of such love, his family took him into the theater on his birthday.

That was shocking, The Lion King in theaters.

Then he watched a lot of musicals.Foreign, domestic, many, many.

He likes the "Phantom of the Opera" movie, but he is still overwhelmed by the musical version.

Nioh made a decision.

He sent his resume to the Four Seasons Troupe.

—and then he was brushed off during the interview.

6,

Liu Sheng sometimes felt that in the eyes of King Ni, he was probably a free vocal tutor.

Nioh turned down a lot of work this year, and focused most of his energy on practicing vocal music.

He really can't be said to be talented in this regard, most of the time he uses acting skills to drive emotions and then drive singing.

The academic Yagyu is particularly sensitive to scales, and can point out dozens or twenty interval errors in a song.

"Forget it, King Ni," Yagyu said.

Nioh said you don't want to.

"You have to stay with me," he said.

7,

Why should I accompany you?

There was no time for Liu Sheng to ask this question.

He met King Ni's eyes, every time, every time it was the same, lost in the twinkling stars in those eyes.

8,

Nioh Masaharu wants to accomplish something, and he will definitely do it.

In the second year, he took Liu Sheng to submit his resume together, and this time the two of them passed the selection of graduate students together.Yagyu was thinking about why I, a student in the instrumental music club, would accompany someone to perform in a musical. Even if I am professional in vocal music, why?

He still hasn't found the answer, but he and Nioh's seemingly playful mutual help group is well-known in the troupe.

He specializes in helping King Ren correct the interval.

Nioh is responsible for guiding him in acting.

They successfully passed the assessment of the troupe and officially signed a contract to become actors of the troupe.

9,

It’s ridiculous.

10,

"The Phantom of the Opera" hasn't been rehearsed for a long time.

The two survived the first year, the second year, and the third year in the troupe.

At the end of the fourth year, I waited for the revival of "The Phantom of the Opera".

In order to participate in the selection, Nioh worked desperately in the year-end assessment, and it was rare for him to rank among the top in the assessment performance.

Considering that he has practiced for so many years and has not improved his intonation, this is really remarkable.

For classic musicals, the pressure of competition is of course very high.

Everyone wants to play.

Although the troupe's supporting roles and voice actors pay the same performance fee, it is not a matter of money to get classic roles in this kind of repertoire.

This is faith.

"Yagyu, I seem to have said that I will play the Phantom and you will play the Viscount." Nioh looked at the rehearsal interview and assessment schedule, and bent down with a smile, "It's so interesting, it will come true one day."

It's a miracle.

Yagyu also obtained such information under Nioh's performance.

11,

Then they passed layers of assessment, rehearsed for six months, and finally got the last chance to go on stage.

Ah, not to be taken lightly.

Even if the name is printed on the brochure, it may not be able to play.

This is not a war between corner A and corner B of an ordinary troupe.

This is a dozen serious people competing for a performance spot.

12,

Their debut was a success.

"The Phantom of the Opera" seems to have become a milestone in their career as musical actors.

After crossing the past, both of them made a qualitative leap.

13,

After getting off the stage, Nioh joked to Yagyu while taking off his makeup, saying that if you were Christina, then I would definitely not let you go, and the lock would also be locked in my little house.

The actress who played Christina wowed, saying that Nioh-kun has always been tormenting Mr. Viscount because he has a special liking for him?I am so sad.

Don't be sad, of course Phantom likes Christina the most, cutie.

Nioh and the actress laughed together.

And Liu Sheng clenched the sleeves of his costume with a calm expression.

14,

As usual, they took off their make-up and changed their clothes. After saying goodbye to other actors, they walked out of the troupe together. As usual, they bid farewell to the canteen of the troupe during the performance and went to an izakaya to experience the nightlife in Tokyo.

In the night breeze, Liu Sheng and Niwang stood side by side, arms rubbed against each other, and gradually leaned closer together.

Yagyu hooked Nio's finger: "You said just now that Phantom likes Christina the most?"

"Did I say something wrong?" Nioh blinked innocently, "No, if I misunderstand the role, I won't be able to go on stage today."

"But what about the second half of the sentence?" Liu Sheng raised his eyebrows.

"What is the second half of the sentence—"

"King Nioh, finish the second half of the sentence." Liu Sheng squeezed Niwang's hand with a little force, "Or me."

In the night breeze, King Ren showed Liu Sheng an aggrieved expression of "Why are you like this".

Then he opened his mouth: "Of course Phantom likes Christina the most...but Masaharu Nioh likes Yagyu Hiroshi the most."

His habitual soft ending was blown away in the night wind.

Then Yagyu stopped, held Nio's hand, and kissed the base of the fingers he was holding: "Well, I am the same."

15,

At this night, Liu Yu thought of a cold afternoon eight years ago.

The last public class of the second year of university.

Nioh packs his things after class, and Yagyu is thoughtful.

"Are you...will you come after the holidays?" Liu Sheng was a little puzzled why he asked this question to a person who should not be considered a very close friend, but just an ordinary friend who was taking classes.

He felt that he was concerned about the difficulty of studying for studious music lovers.

High art opens its doors for any lover.

"Professional class teachers will not allow you to sit in." He said.

Niwang seemed a little surprised that he said such a thing.

"I won't come." The man with long hair tucked all his hair into a black scarf, which was given to him by Yagyu for Christmas. In Yagyu's basic class twice in a row, he found that the guy who rubbed off the class did not wear a scarf. Always show your neck.

He said that those who learn vocal music love their voices, and it is too conspicuous without a scarf.

King Ni accepted the scarf with frowned eyebrows, thinking that his unusual "tablemate" was very interesting.

At the beginning, he was pulling him to talk about musicals and music dreams. Isn't this guy quite impatient.

So he was a soft-hearted guy?

"I won't be coming," Nioh said, "So, would you like to go to a musical with me?"

He took out a ticket for "The Phantom of the Opera" from his schoolbag.

"My favorite musical."

Liu Sheng looked at Renwang's frozen red fingertips, and his Adam's apple slid twice uncontrollably: "...OK."

16,

"It would be the most amazing thing if we could play the phantom and the viscount on the stage." King Nio said to him that day, "but it's good that you are Christina, I can sing a confession poem to you."

"...Get lost." Liuyu blushed uncontrollably in the darkness of the theater, "Christina doesn't like Phantom."

"Does Yagyu Hiroshi like Nioh Masaharu?"

"...Mmm." Liu Sheng pressed his heart, and some kind of flame seemed to burst out of his body at this moment, burning him up, "Let's just force it."

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