I know that everyone is worried about me, but now that I have decided, I must do it well, and I will do it well.
On the weekend afternoon in mid-March, the crew of the musical "Rouge Button" conducted a public rehearsal clip display. In addition to Zhang Ze, Xu Yao, Ding Zhenying and other "old faces" familiar to musical theater audiences, Xiao Jingteng among the crowd also attracted much attention.
has been a pop singer for 17 years, and it is the first time for Jam Hsiao to cross over and play the leading role in a musical. After experiencing hesitation, he chose to accept the challenge-entered the classroom of the drama school to become a freshman in acting, memorized the lines of his own and his opponent's actors before joining the group, and devoted all his time after the year to the rehearsal hall. .
In the play, Xiao Jingteng sings heartily in the name of "The Twelve Young Masters" and runs dialogues in a complicated stage arrangement; outside the play, when he sits in front of the camera, his voice will obviously drop an octave and he will be much quieter. He has his own understanding of the love between the "Twelve Young Masters" and "Ruhua", the music career he has always loved, and the current life full of happiness. A reporter from News Morning News interviewed Xiao Jingteng before the performance of "Rouge" to hear him slowly express his feelings at this moment.
When he received the invitation for the musical "Rouge Button" more than a year ago, Jam Hsiao was a little nervous. His only musical theater performance experience before this dates back to the 2019 fantasy musical comedy "Xiha Travels - The Return of the Devil". It was a comedy with Yu Chengqing as the music producer and starring Sun Wukong. Xiao Jingteng was invited to play the role of "Red Boy" and performed 4 times.
What impressed Xiao Jingteng most at that time was the schedule of two performances a day: one in the afternoon and one in the evening. This kind of rhythm has long been accustomed to musical actors, but as singer Jam Hsiao who is used to releasing all his energy at once, how to distribute the emotions and energy of two consecutive performances was a very important lesson at that time.
had a brief acting experience, and Xiao Jingteng was obviously much more cautious when it came to the rehearsal of "Rouge Button". The performance work a few years ago was complicated and busy, so he first recorded all the scenes of the actors in the same group, leaving out his own part, and practiced his lines along with the tapes whenever he had time. After the New Year, he specially set aside a full time for the musical. On the first day after joining the group, he could put down the script and directly interact with the actors.
Knowing that as a singer who crosses over to the musical stage, he will inevitably face a lot of scrutiny, Xiao Jingteng went to the Shanghai Theater Academy for two months to study. In class, like all students, he started by liberating his nature and learning the vocal table shape.
During the warm-up, the teacher will play music while inspiring everyone to imagine the relationship with the surrounding environment, sometimes shouting and sometimes laughing, so as to fully feel the artistic conception of the performance. At first, Jam Hsiao would be a little embarrassed, "But when everyone is immersed in it, you would be a weirdo if you didn't do it." In the
class, his pronunciation of lines was also corrected a lot. "We are very used to saying 'how', but what you need to say in the lines is 'what's wrong'. And the logical stress of the word 'what' is also very different."
And in the past period of time, I have been rehearsing with the musical actors In the process, Xiao Jingteng also made many new discoveries. "We rarely sing with our heads up and roar all the time, which is very tiring. But if you look at the musical actors, they all hold their heads high and their chests high, and I admire them very much."
In Xiao Jingteng's view, singing in musicals requires investment There are more delicate emotions, and you have to have strong control while performing. Even if you are sad and shed tears, it cannot affect the singing, which is very challenging. In sharp contrast to the beauty of the first half of "Rouge", the second half gradually became heavier. Just the scene where the "Twelve Young Masters" were looking for jobs had already brought tears to the eyes of the agents watching the rehearsal. And Xiao Jingteng said that there were many scenes that made him unable to help crying.
"I think everyone may have misunderstood Young Master Twelve. He is essentially a simple child." As for why he did not leave with Ruhua, Xiao Jingteng is more willing to interpret it as "fate tricks people." The audience will understand after watching the show that in the long years of losing flowers, the "Twelve Young Masters" actually commemorated that love in their own way.
The current daily routine of the "Rouge Button" crew is still organizing everyone to "go to work" in the rehearsal hall. Xiao Jingteng said that during the past period, work started at around nine o'clock almost every day and ended at seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and sometimes he would work overtime.
There are Li Bihua's original novel and the movie version of Zhuyu as interpreted by Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. After being adapted into a musical, "Rouge Button" has carried a lot of expectations.
Broadway director Zoë Marconielli mentioned in an interview that the biggest difficulty in interpreting the character is that the actors have to be immersed in high-concentration emotions to deeply explore the character's life. "Performance cannot be superficial, but must be experienced and felt deeply. During rehearsals, I need to provide a safe environment for the actors so that they can cry safely and experience anger and sadness. Chinese actors are sometimes reserved and introverted Some, after adjustments, everyone can interpret it very well."
In the play, Jam Hsiao and musical actor Zhang Ze play the same role. When he doesn't have his own rehearsal tasks, Jam Hsiao likes to sit in the audience and watch Zhang Ze act. "Perhaps every actor will project his own emotions when performing a role. I can see some ideas in him that I have never had before, and many of them are worth learning."
"In Xiao Jingteng, I see It’s a very pure and simple emotional release. Maybe I have performed in musicals for a few more years than him, but all the techniques are not worth mentioning in the face of real feelings. The simplest and real ones are the most touching." During the interview. , Zhang Ze also shared his rehearsal insights with reporters.
Last September, Jam Hsiao and his team went to Norway to record the new album "Wild". Unlike in the past, he personally supervised the production. This time, he decided to participate purely as a singer and leave more decision-making power to the experienced production team.
has been debuting for many years. As he grows into a mature singer with a certain degree of popularity, will it become more and more difficult to hear "unfavorable advice" from his peers? Returning to his pure identity as a singer, can the producer really "make demands" of him directly?
Faced with this problem, Xiao Jingteng unabashedly used the recording experience of this new album as an example. When recording the first song, he found that everyone was not very good at expressing themselves directly and spoke very conservatively and politely. However, in order to ensure the quality of the album and avoid having to rework halfway through the work process, Jam Hsiao took the initiative to communicate with the production team, hoping that everyone would feel free to tell the truth, "I will do whatever adjustments they ask me to make. We can't forget why we are here. Since To do it, it must be executed in place."
When recording the song "White Night", Jam Hsiao was struck by the lyrics and melody, and couldn't help but burst into tears during the recording process. The side shot recorded him hiding in the bathroom. Summer, his manager and wife, gently warned him outside the door, "Don't be too sad, (you are) a professional actor."
Xiao Jingteng said that at that moment, nothing was in his mind. There is no very complicated thinking, I am simply moved by the artistic conception depicted in the song, which is a common emotion among human beings. During the interview, he once again recalled the emotional fluctuations at that time. Xiao Jingteng reflected more: "The lyricist teacher is so good at writing. I have never dared to read the lyrics before, for fear of being too excited. It was not until I entered the recording studio that I really combined music and The lyrics were completely combined, and I ended up crying after singing a few words. But this is my problem. If I feel it earlier, it will be more stable when recording."
Every time a new song is born and performed, it is very important for the singer. It is an important journey for everyone. Over the years, Jam Hsiao will also find that many people are still deeply impressed by his appearance when he first entered the music scene. The popular "Princess" and "Alocasia Love" are still the most commonly used labels when people mention him. During the promotion period for
's new album, Jam Hsiao once asked "Book of Answers" a question during an interactive interview: Is there a new song in this album that will enter the public eye? "The Book of Answers" does not answer this question directly, but the question itself allows us to hear his subtext.As a creator,
does not hide his hope that his works will be loved by the public, but he also admits that everything depends on "fate". "It's possible that you spend 5 minutes writing a song and it becomes a hit, and the album that took two years to make may not be listened to by many people. But if you don't do it, there will be nothing."
insists on creating and waiting for an opportunity. In Xiao Jingteng's opinion, it is still necessary. "When the right time, place and people are right, maybe a great work will be born. And that 'greatness' is not defined by me, but everyone jointly gives it a classic in people's hearts."
This year, Xiao Jingteng still has great achievements in music. A lot of work arrangements. "Although there is no specific schedule for the concert, it will definitely come to Shanghai when the time comes." By then, the songs from the new album will also be an important part of it. However, before that, Xiao Jingteng will start a new life experience on the stage in the name of "Twelve Young Masters".
It’s April in this world, let’s meet “actor Jam Hsiao” first.
