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Musical "The Young Lion" (Mandarin version) will premiere at the Guangzhou Grand Theater from January 11th to 14th, 2024.
On December 27, 2023, the producer held a press conference to release the latest three key visuals of the musical "Lion" (Mandarin version) "The Stage of Youth", "The Boy and the Lion" and "Leap Up"; The main creators and starring actors shared their creative ideas and thoughts on participating in the show, and performed three songs from the play live.
Let the intangible cultural heritage lions shine with the glory of the times
In recent years, Guangzhou has been committed to building an international performing arts center. It has specially issued policy documents such as the "Implementation Plan for Accelerating the Cultivation of International Performing Arts Centers in Guangzhou" and strives to revitalize superior performing arts resources and build a "core Bay Area, domestic "Benchmarking, world-class" cultural and performing arts matrix, actively promote world-class artistic celebrities, famous groups, masterpieces, and famous dramas to enter Guangzhou, allowing the general public to enjoy the feast of integrated culture and tourism.
This year, Guangzhou ranks first in the country in the number of large and medium-sized performances, and the performing arts market is booming. The launch of the musical "Lion" (Mandarin version) is one of its successful practices. According to the producer of
, the musical "Lion Boys" aims to deepen literary and artistic cooperation in the Bay Area with high-quality literary and artistic works, promote cultural integration and common promotion in the Bay Area, lead the spiritual and cultural atmosphere of the Bay Area, and support the excellent Lingnan culture represented by the Lion Dance. “Breaking the circle and going overseas” highlights the unique charm of Bay Area culture.
The thousand-year-old lion dance is one of the important representatives of Guangfu’s cultural spiritual inheritance. In 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. The musical "Lion Boys" focuses on the lion dance culture and customs of Lingnan. It uses a stage art form that is popular with the people to continue the Lingnan context, polish the cultural brand, and make "intangible cultural heritage" shine with the glory of the times.
"The musical "The Young Lion" tells the story of lion awakening culture, which is a common cultural symbol of our Greater Bay Area. People living here resonate very much with lion awakening." At the press conference, the Chen Rui, representative of the drama producer and deputy general manager of the Guangzhou Grand Theater, said that when producing the drama, we had already considered the integration of the mainland and Hong Kong creative teams, hoping to further deepen the cultural integration of the Greater Bay Area from the production level.
The repertoire incorporates many Cantonese elements.
The musical "The Young Lion" not only focuses on the inspirational story of young people's growth, but also is a song written for every hard-working little person. The characters in the play do not regard dreams as the end of the story and the only sustenance, but like most ordinary people, face the true face of life. Director He Nian of
focuses on the creation of characters and shows each character's love for life in the play. Through the creation of group portraits of life in the hometown and the ordinary story of actor Ajuan's hard work in Guangzhou, he shows on the stage the stories that belong to our era. The breath of life and the taste of life.
"'Lingnan style' is an element embedded in the gene of this drama." When talking about the style of the drama, director He Nian said that the story of the musical "The Young Lion" is set in Guangdong, and its stage, Many of the images and images are of Lingnan style and Cantonese elements. For this drama to be successful, it must firmly believe that only by insisting on localization can it be nationalized and internationalized.
According to reports, the musical "The Young Lion" (Mandarin version) gathers the outstanding literary and artistic forces of the Greater Bay Area and is created by a powerful creative team of Chinese musicals. Jordan Chan and Kit Chan join the cast, and Fang Shujian, Guo Hongxu, Chen Keming , Li Qiumeng and other powerful actors perform together.
Among them, the film and television singer "Sanqi" actor Chen Xiaochun is well-known to the public for his role as "Pheasant" in the "Young and Dangerous" series of movies. This time he will participate in the musical "The Lion" (Mandarin version). ushered in his mainland musical debut.
In addition, 13 multi-functional actors from the Guangdong Song and Dance Theater will also give superb performances in the play.
