Shanghai World has become a new landmark of small theaters. Recently, reporters came to Shanghai World. There were actors at the door interacting with the audience. Despite the hot weather, they still patiently signed autographs and took photos with the audience, and shared memories of the performance with everyone. An aunt passing by even joked to the actor: "You are stupid. Yeah, you should come down early and take a shady spot inside!" After the actors left, the audience also dispersed.
Caption: The actor is interacting with the audience. Photographed by Zhang Xinran (the same below)
Itās summer, and many parents bring their children to play in the big world. They play and take photos in front of the fun mirror in the lobby on the first floor. The performance posters were scrolling on the multimedia stand. After seeing them, tourists happily "reported" the performance time to their families and studied the performance route.
staff told reporters that tourists can now visit the Big World for free. Because small theaters are becoming more and more popular, the venues on the second and fourth floors are rented out to some theater production companies for immersive musicals and drama performances; the third floor retains acrobatic and magic performances inside the big world, and the audience is mostly parents and child. Audiences can purchase tickets through the Big World official account, and immersive plays are also sold on third-party platforms such as Maoyan and Damai.
Caption: Flowers and gifts placed on the shelves outside the door
From the second floor to the fourth floor, Big World has gathered more than 20 performing arts spaces. The door of each small theater is decorated with unique wallpaper with the title of the play written on it. , different styles. The cast of the day is hung on the wall, and flowers and gifts prepared by the audience for the actors are placed on the shelves outside the door. Slow down and hear the performances from the theater in the corridor. Some viewers have been looking forward to the performance for a long time and came to the theater early to share their experiences with friends and express their excitement; some viewers made a last-minute decision and opened the app to buy tickets just before the show started, and hurried to the gate to pick up their tickets and enter the venue.
Drama enthusiast Yunyun told reporters that she has recently been "super excited" about the musical "Lizzie" on the fourth floor of the Big World. "In the small theater, I can clearly feel the tension and emotion of the actors' performances." As a Shanghai girl, when the Big World reopened, she also āfollowed the trendā and went to play. āI feel that the Big World at that time was a relatively old-school amusement place, but now the Big World is more like a theater and has become more Yuan is more modern. "She was born in 2005 and has not witnessed the heyday of Big World, but today's Big World incorporates elements she likes, which she thinks is good.
Some older people also found new fun here. The reporter met a grandma who came to watch "The Moon and Sixpence" in a small theater. Different from the casual young audience, she was elegantly dressed and paid attention to the etiquette of watching the drama. She was very curious about the immersive layout of the theater. She took out her mobile phone to take photos and records, but accidentally turned on the flash. After being reminded, she quickly asked the staff to help turn it off. "I like art," she said.
With the development of the times, the largest amusement park in the Far East has finally become a memory. But the big world of one generation will leave traces of time here. The Big World has stood in Shanghai for a hundred years, witnessing the transformation of Shanghai from a "ten-mile foreign market" to a modern city, and it itself is also changing to adapt to the times.
Xinmin Evening News reporter Tu Yu intern Zhang Xinran
