Recently, with the popularity of dialect works such as the TV series "Flowers" and the drama "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", the charm of dialect dramas has once again been recognized by the public. It is said that "three women perform a play". If He Saifei, Mao Shanyu, and Huang Ling were paired with Hao Ping, Zhao Zhigang, and Mao Mengda, artists with such profound stage performance skills would be on the same stage, what a great show it would be!
As the Spring Festival approaches, the dialect Chinese New Year drama "Pretty Woman" jointly produced by Shanghai Huangpu Cultural Tourism Group, Shanghai Foreign Cultural Exchange Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Yijing Culture Communication Co., Ltd., and co-organized by Shanghai Xinmeihong Culture Co., Ltd. will be launched in 2024 From February 4th to 8th and February 13th to 17th, the show will perform at the Shangyin Opera House for the first round of 10 performances. The play is directed by director He Nian and written by Zhao Huanan. It stars He Saifei, Hao Ping, Mao Shanyu, Zhao Zhigang, Mao Mengda, and Huang Ling is a special guest star.
During the process of reading the script, everyone carefully considered the role and tried to accurately grasp the character's personality and the feeling of the scene: He Saifei and Hao Ping stopped from time to time to deal with a detail and express their opinions.
Mao Shanyu and Zhao Zhigang, the "cp" in the drama and real friends, are also very affectionate.
The performances of Mao Mengda and Huang Ling in the play are even more contrasting, and the laughter started to appear during the script reading.
As a Lunar New Year drama in dialect, the main creators’ emotional voices during the reading made the lines of “life flow” burst out with sparks from time to time, revealing a strong atmosphere of New Year’s joy.
The dialect Lunar New Year drama "Pretty Woman" is a family comedy suitable for the festive period. The story takes place in the garden house of owner Wan (played by Mao Mengda) of Shanghai medicinal materials store in the 1930s. Boss Wan is in his second marriage. The aunt of his young wife Gan Shali (played by Huang Ling) is a gangster figure. She acts as a matchmaker and marries her niece into the Wan family in order to gain access to the Wan family's wealth. But Boss Wan is a shrewd man. Businessmen, don’t fall into this trap. Boss Wan's daughter Wan Yingying (played by Mao Shanyu) is a college student who is in love with Ouyang Ming (played by Zhao Zhigang), a young charity worker. Ganzhe's sister-in-law failed in her beauty trick, so she came up with the idea to act as a matchmaker for Wan Yingying and asked a young man Kong Baifeng (played by Hao Ping) to pretend to be the nephew of the Minister of Finance Kong Xiangxi and go to Wan's house for a blind date. In the process, all kinds of ridiculous mistakes occurred, and with the blessing of various dialects, the whole play is full of comedy atmosphere, which is especially suitable for the New Year holiday, when the whole family enters the theater to celebrate the New Year happily.
In addition to the wonderful story, the strong creative and starring cast of this Lunar New Year drama fully guarantees the quality of the drama. He Nian is a well-known stage director who is familiar to Shanghai audiences, and Zhao Huanan is also a well-known screenwriter who is especially familiar to Shanghai audiences. The leading cast is all national first-class actors, and has won various awards: He Saifei won the China Film Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress, the China Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress, the China Golden Record Award, and Hao Ping won the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award. , Chinese Drama Golden Lion Award, Wenhua Performance Award, Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performing Arts Award, Zuolin Drama Art Award, Mao Shanyu has won the China Film Golden Rooster Award, Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, Wenhua Performance Award, Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performance Award Art Awards, Zhao Zhigang has won the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, the Wenhua Performance Award, the China Golden Record Award, the Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performing Arts Protagonist Award, and Mao Mengda has won the Peony Award of the Chinese Music Association. Special guest star Huang Ling, as a famous singer, has been active in movies, TV and stages in recent years and is loved by the audience.
Every actor's role in this performance is extremely challenging, but they all said that as actors they should accept the challenge. As a New Year's comedy, "Pretty Woman" has famous actors and actresses appearing on stage to celebrate the New Year. How can you miss it this Spring Festival? Let's wait for the curtain to open together!
