Poster of the musical "Light and Shadow Boy"
This is a work based on the entertainment industry ecology and 30 original music pieces with various styles as a link. The whole play tells the story of two dream-seeking teenagers, Ou Shinan and Xiang Zhige. In this story, they are bound together by dreams, interests and inner demons. Each of them is lost in desire and grows in thorns. The youthful atmosphere, the entangled fate of the characters that touch people's hearts, and the sincere and clean performances of the actors moved the audience present.
It took three years of repeated speculation from idea to realization. Producer, screenwriter, and lyricist Liu Jing said: "I am in such an entertainment industry myself and have personally experienced the ecology of the entire industry. There are many industries in the entertainment industry. Light and dark, we have also witnessed the realization of many dreams. This drama is what we want to separate from this vanity fair and show it to everyone. "
Stills of the musical "Light and Shadow"
once created the hit film and television drama "Zhi". Liu Xuandou, the composer of "Do You Know or Not" was invited to serve as the composer, arranger and music director of the play. When talking about the creation of this play, he said that the music elements covered in this play can be said to be particularly numerous, particularly comprehensive, and popular. Almost everything related is covered, and it is a very comprehensive popular audio-visual feast. Lyrical, string, piano, r&b, dance double step, jazz, etc., including duo. In addition, a kind of "light and shadow" will be designed between the music and the characters. "Light" is more sunny, and there will be more things in major keys; "shadow" is relatively melancholy, and there will be more things in minor keys.
The director of the play Guo Zhen is an associate professor at the China Conservatory of Music. He said, "This is a very hormonal drama. Teenagers are the most vital and energetic group with unlimited possibilities. We want to create a unique Chinese original musical that has a sense of the times."
Stills from the musical "Light and Shadow"
The "Light and Shadow Group" in the play is played by a group of new generation Chinese musical actors. Their uniform good looks also give the play a youthful and beautiful temperament. Among them, Ou Shinan is played by Xu Ziwei, Tian Hongjie, Rao Hengyu, and Huang Weiming, and the protagonist Xiang Zhige is played by Chen Renquan, Zhu Yancheng, Tang Jiaqi, and Liu Quanjun. Although many of the actors have appeared on stage for the first time in a musical, most of them have gone through internal auditions and selections since 2021, interviews in offline rehearsal halls, and second auditions in recording studios. , eventually becoming the protagonist in the play.
In addition to the two "young men", the play also features a mysterious "phantom" character. The cast includes Wang Xi, Jiang Qianru, Song Yuzhe, Huang Zihongfan, Boyuan, Cai Qi, Mao Er, Ye There are first-line actors and singers in musicals such as Qisheng, so every performance will have a different experience.
Liu Jing also said, "With "Light and Shadow Boy" as a starting point, we will continue to promote original musicals and give full play to our own 'musical' advantages. Make more 'good-sounding' musicals and more 'singable' musicals works.”
