Is there a wall in your life that you must hit? This week, the "Bay Area Performance Guide" discovered a different musical: from May 17th to May 18th, the "Beijing Blues" musical "South Wall Project" will be performed in Foshan. It took two years to incubate and three years to polish. They say it is unique. But what makes it unique? When an unfamiliar melody sounds on the stage, perhaps many familiar memories will be vaguely evoked...
In addition to "South Wall Project", this week, we also recommend that the American pop rock band Fall Out Boy from Chicago will open the show The rock audio-visual feast that lasted for six years and the Guangzhou Lingnan Symphony Orchestra's first symphony concert in 2024 with the theme of "Warm Night of Ode to Mother's Love", as well as Meng Huiyuan, who led everyone to shout "I am super good", will be held in Guangzhou forever. Qingfang brings the "Life Award Ceremony" 2024 tour. In addition, in Shenzhen, Jiang Yuheng started a tour with great love; the original original card of the London West End play performed Agatha Christie's masterpiece of suspense mystery novel "Nobody Survived". Shrouded in fog, this tortuous journey full of doubts and deceptions, can Does it hold your heart firmly?
As time goes by, those familiar music from the past play again, will it make you still passionate?
Guangzhou
fall out boy concert 2024-fall out boy
Time: 2024.05.11
Venue: Baoneng Guangzhou International Sports Performing Arts Center
This American pop rock band from Chicago has been popular around the world for 23 years. He was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist when he debuted. After returning from hiatus, he released hit songs one after another. He has released a total of 8 studio albums in more than 20 years, setting a record of 4 albums going straight to the top of the Billboard Mainstream Chart. Among them, the album "Save Rock and Roll" released after their comeback in 2013 set off a global craze and produced hits such as "the phoenix" and "my songs know what you did in the dark". In 2014, Fall Out Boy composed and sang the theme song "Immortals" for the Disney movie "Big Hero 6". In 2018, Fall Out Boy released the seventh studio album "mania" in his music career, and launched the "mania tour" in China's stadiums, landing in three stops in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing, and almost every venue was packed.
Now, after six years, they have come to China again with their new album "so much(for)stardust". This is the band's meticulously crafted and profound eighth regular studio album. Looking forward to leaving Universal Music Group, which we have cooperated with for nearly 20 years, and joining the Warner Music family for the first time, Fall Out Boy will bring the audience a rock event that is still passionate and full of emotional explosiveness.
Meng Huiyuan "Life Award Ceremony" 2024 Tour
Time: 2024.05.11
Venue: mao livehouse Guangzhou (Yongqingfang Branch)
Meng Huiyuan is a female pop singer, songwriter, and actor in Mainland China. In 2012, she participated in the Qinghai Satellite TV talent show "Flowers Blossoming" and won fourth place in the national finals, thus officially entering the entertainment industry. In 2016, she won 16th place in the national finals of the Mango TV talent show "Super Girl". In 2018, she won the "My Favorite Newcomer" award at the Chinese Golden Melody Awards.
In 2023, her "I Think You're Crazy" tour successfully traveled to 14 cities and received an overwhelming response. This year, Meng Huiyuan launched a "Life Award Ceremony" theme tour with a sincere new album, and designed many "little ideas" waiting for the audience to discover on May 11th.
A warm night of maternal love ode - Lingnan Symphony Concert
Time: 2024.05.11
Venue: Xinghai Concert Hall (Symphony Hall)
Guangzhou Lingnan Symphony Orchestra’s first symphony concert in 2024 will be held in Xinghai Concert Hall, With the theme of "Ode to Mother's Love, Warm Night", Guangzhou's local young conductor Luo Zhongyun, the orchestra's chief violinist Ye Huasheng, special guests cellist Pan Chang, trumpet Ma Qiongrui, viola Peng Yueyi, and singer Yang Zhongen join hands with Guangzhou The Lingnan Symphony Orchestra performs excellent Chinese and foreign symphony works, uses music to pay tribute to maternal love, and expresses the deepest gratitude and blessings to all mothers.
Shenzhen
Jiang Yuheng 2024 Road of Life Tour Concert
Time: 2024.05.11
Venue: Shenzhen Bay Sports Center "Spring Cocoon" Gymnasium
Jiang Yuheng, an evergreen singing voice with a melancholy temperament and vicissitudes of singing, has been in the music industry for 40 years since his debut, and his golden songs are enduring . "Many Years Later" takes the audience on a musical time machine to reminisce about the past; "Looking Back" pays tribute to the people and things that have passed by; "Three Plum Blossom Lanes" performs "Love does not know where it started, but it is deep in love"... Now Jiang Yuheng is about to start a long-awaited journey. During the mainland tour, Jiang Yuheng has made special preparations for the Shenzhen concert. All profits from the concert will be used to fund the "Butterfly Baby Care Project" of the Ball Love Charity Foundation (rescuing patients with severe scoliosis). I wonder how the legendary singer Jiang Yuheng will open the door to memory this time and bring a rich journey experience.
London's West End original play "No Survival"
Time: 2024.05.10-05.12
Venue: Shenzhen Pingshan Grand Theater
"No Survival" is a British suspense novel writer, known as the "Queen of Crime" Agatha... Christie's masterpiece, Lucy Bailey, the high-scoring director of "Witness for the Prosecution", once again adapted the classic and directed a new London West End version of the play, recreating the British style.
The story of "No One Survived" took place in 1939, when Europe was on the brink of war. Ten strangers were invited to an isolated soldier's island off the coast of Devon. The generous hosts Mr. and Mrs. Owen... disappeared mysteriously, and everyone present was accused of a horrific crime.
The story is masterfully crafted, and the audience remains fascinated by how the director reinvents a familiar story. "No One Survived" is a clever and twisting journey of doubt and deception that will capture the hearts of its viewers. When one of the guests dies suddenly, they realize that they may be traveling with the murderer. The successive deaths make them suspicious of each other and try to find out the murderer. What secrets are hidden on this isolated island? Who is the murderer and why? No one survives to the end?
Original author Agatha Christie is famous for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. Guinness World Records lists her as the best-selling novel author of all time, with sales of more than 2 billion novels. His masterpieces include "The Mousetrap," the longest-running play in the world.
Foshan
Musical "South Wall Project"
Time: 2024.05.17-05.18
Venue: Foshan Qionghua Grand Theater
What will happen between a father who asks his son to inherit the mantle of folk art and a son who insists on his music dream? s story? When an unfamiliar melody sounds on the stage, perhaps many familiar memories will be vaguely evoked... The creators of
use the unique musical idea of "Beijing Blues" to mix and connect parent-child relationships with the cultural propositions of the times. It tells the story of a young man's confusion and growth, confrontation and reconciliation between loss and possession, father and son, new and old. Behind the dispute between father and son is the conflict between tradition and pioneering, and also the different persistence between generations. A reflection and debate on "tradition" and "inheritance" took place on the stage, evoking "cultural resonance."
It is understood that the musical "South Wall Project" has twice been submitted to the Shanghai Cultural Plaza's "Chinese Original Musical Incubation Program". After layers of selection, it stood out from 147 solicited works. In 2021, the drama team's music bid was successfully recognized, and investment Officially produced. The music style in the play is varied and layered. The lyrics and composition skillfully combine traditional folk arts with pop styles and blues, and the rhythmic artistic conception is impressive. It abandons writing lyrics according to the music and adopts the mode of composing according to the words, which brings the Chinese phonology to the extreme, making the words and music perfectly integrated and natural.
Written by: Nandu reporter Wu Fengsi, intern Zhang Chenning
