Photo courtesy of the premiere of the musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time"
China News Service, Beijing, August 11 (Reporter Gao Kai) On Chinese Valentine's Day in 2020, a love-themed movie "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" 》Have a good harvest at the box office and word of mouth. Two years later, it is still summer time, and the musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" will take the stage here, once again telling the touching story about youthful love in another form.
The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" is produced by Damai Mailive and produced by "Of course there is a show". It premiered on August 10 at the Grand Theater of Beijing Tianqiao Art Center. On that day, the multi-layered perspective scenes on the stage created a dreamy and fragmented visual impact in the interplay of sound, light and electricity. The strong and deep stage vision also provided the audience with a broader space for imagination and illuminated the "time vortex" The theme concept, the whole audience followed the story on the stage and traveled through multiple time dimensions.
The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" is adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Zheng Zhi. It tells the story of a down-and-out writer Lu Chen and his character and his best friend "Linge" who "reverse time" ", a story that rewrites the ending of a long-forgotten love affair. In the story of writer Lu Chen, the male protagonist Ringer dialed the watch left by his mother, and time instantly went back to before Qiu Qian's accident... Ringer used the aging of his young life as a price, and exchanged his own time for Qiu Qian. Qian is alive. The story of the
musical is based on the love line of the original work, and adds two new characters: Lu Chen and Mei Yi. The three threads of love, friendship, and family affection run in parallel, presenting the self-transformation and growth of the four protagonists in a three-dimensional way, and exploring the meaning of "love" in a deeper level.
The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" brings together experienced creative teams from China and South Korea. Director Shi Lu has directed Four Seasons Theater Company 's classic Chinese version of the musical "The Prince and the Beggar" and "The Little Witch" and other outstanding works; the well-known Korean screenwriter Park Hae-rim has created the classic musicals "3 AM" and "So Ordinary" "Nabil", "Hourglass Lover" and many other excellent works; composer/arranger Min Canhong has also created There are many classic musicals that are often performed, such as the musical "Doing Laundry" and "The Life of a Disliked Matsuko". This musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" also continues the composer's usual romantic style. The style, the beautiful melody is catchy, and the theme song "Love Begins from Forgetting" adds touching emotion to the plot.
The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" premiered. Pictures provided by the show.
Stage Designer Tao Xiangju, Lighting Designer Miao Chunyu, and Multimedia Designer Bowen also worked together to create fantastic and beautiful stage visual effects for this play. The five-level perspective scenes on the stage are combined with multimedia projections, sometimes representing real space, and sometimes becoming a tunnel that reverses time and space. Tao Xiangju said, "Time is like a black hole, melting everything in reality into its huge gear. Or maybe there is no time in the first place, but the superposition of spaces forms time." The stage has different shapes and sizes. The scenery represents the fragments of time and space. The translucent gauze material and the highly infectious lighting effects create a clever connection with the "time" theme of the play. The story of the
musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" spans decades. The stage design reflects the passage of time through elements and tones rich in age characteristics. In the stage scenes that represent real spaces, whether it is an office, an Internet cafe, or Lu Chen’s home, the overall design tone is dim. In the clips recalling youthful years, the setting is more contemporary. The designer used a huge piece of composition paper as the background and used freehand and symbolic techniques to recreate the campus life of that era, perfectly replicating the blackboard newspapers, desks and chairs in the classrooms of the 1990s, and the slogans and slogans on the playground. In the time and space after Ringer traveled, the scene has a stronger sense of emotion: the slanted barbed wire fence, crooked windows, etc. are all metaphors for the protagonist Ringer's current complex state of mind. Near the end of
, Ringer chose to travel back to the day of his birth and had an affectionate conversation with his father as a "stranger".The bench across the stage in front of the delivery room, the dim yellow lights, and the highly hypothetical stage design instantly brought the audience back to the hospital corridor in the 1980s, and also allowed them to understand the indescribable love between Ringo and his father. .
musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" premiered Photo courtesy of the show
The musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" brings together a number of outstanding young actors today, including the young actor Lin Yanjun who is good at singing, dancing and acting, and the outstanding musical actor Aladdin who plays "Linge"; Young actors Wang Hanyu and Zhao Yanbo, who have been blooming on the stage for many years, play the down-and-out writer "Lu Chen"; there is also Pan Yilin, an actor with a strong expressiveness and sense of narrative, who plays Qiu Qian. Li Xueyin and Yan Xiaobei are well-known to the audience as contestants of the variety shows "Dancer" and "La La Land" respectively. In this drama, they also combined their own advantages to bring two different versions of "Mei Yi".
It is reported that this round of performances will last until August 14, and then the musical "I'm Waiting for You at the End of Time" will start a tour in Shenzhen, Foshan, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and other places. (End)
Source: China News Network
