Midsummer is here, and Shanghai Cultural Plaza is welcoming a feast of self-made plays amidst the heat wave. Three ingenious self-produced musicals - "My Bucket List", "Perhaps a Happy Ending", "Fan Letters" and a specially invited incubation work - the original musical "Lady Macbeth" will take turns to stage, igniting Shanghai. .
As the "opening overture" of the Cultural Square's Homemade Month, the musicals "My Bucket List" and "Maybe a Happy Ending" will usher in their 200th and 51st performances respectively. The musical "My Bucket List", which
has accompanied the audience for eight years, tells the story of two teenagers aged 17 or 18, Yang Xiaoyu, a rebellious young man, and Liu Bao, a classmate who is seriously ill, and they implement their "Bucket List" together. This "small but beautiful" youth work is a profound discussion about life, growth, love and hope.
Since its first meeting with the audience in the summer of 2021, the musical "Perhaps a Happy Ending" has gone through four rounds of Shanghai performances and tours in more than ten cities across the country, completing 50 wonderful and moving performances. The play tells a romantic story between two robots. The fresh music style and touching melody bring fresh healing and touch to the audience. On August 8, the musical "Maybe a Happy Ending" will have its 51st performance, starting a new journey.
The popular masterpiece "Fan Letters" will return to the stage of the Cultural Plaza for the seventh time from August 22 to 24, which will usher in the end of this year. As the Chinese version of the musical that has been in preparation for the longest time at Cultural Plaza, the creative team has repeatedly refined and patiently polished "Fan Letters", and moved the story background to Shanghai, the center of Chinese literature and publishing, to depict the world of literati in the 1940s.
This premiere coincides with the 120th performance of "Letters from Fans". Cultural Plaza will join hands with industry experts, creative teams, actors of all generations, and all audiences who care about the growth of this work to carry out a series of 100 commemorative events to discuss the development of Chinese musicals More paths and possibilities. At the same time, Cultural Plaza will join hands with China Post to launch joint derivatives.
adheres to the original intention of upgrading the pursuit of theater art from "selecting good plays" to "making good plays". Over the past 8 years, Cultural Plaza has continued to work hard and has produced 9 Chinese versions of musicals, with footprints in nearly 50 cities across the country. More than 500 performances. More than 100 musical actors have appeared on the stage of the Chinese version of the homemade musical at the Cultural Plaza, and have gradually grown into the backbone of Chinese musicals.
While producing "small but beautiful" exquisite masterpieces, Cultural Plaza is also a brave practitioner of artistic innovation. In 2019, Cultural Plaza launched the "Chinese Original Musical Incubation Program" for the first time. After six consecutive years of exploration, investment and accumulation, it has opened up multiple tracks such as free incubation, directional incubation, and specially invited incubation, and has hatched more than ten original works. , to build a musical industry platform with "resources, mechanisms, talents, and rights" as the core.
The original musical "Lady Macbeth", a specially invited incubation work born out of Shanghai Cultural Plaza's "2022 Chinese Original Musical Incubation Plan", will have its second round of performances from August 8 to September 1. "Lady Macbeth" is the first specially invited incubation work of the "Chinese Original Musical Incubation Program", launching the Sino-foreign joint creation model for the first time, jointly produced by Chinese director Xu Jun and British screenwriters and songwriters James Beaney and Gina Georgia This adaptation of Shakespeare's classic has assembled a strong international cast, presented in an international cast and in full English. It completed its world premiere in Shanghai in May this year and performed 30 times in a row, receiving constant praise.
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Editor: Zhan Yue Editor: Zhu Yue
Source: Shanghai Huangpu
