The Fortune Theatre is also very small, in fact, many theatres in the West End are very small, because normally, for a long time, a theatre may only perform one play, five days a week, six days a week, all of the same plays. This model is also because so many theaters exist in one place at the same time, if there is any popular play, everyone will rush to row similar themes, or compete for the cast, and homogeneous competition will soon destroy this place.

Ji Ming actually knows this kind of tragedy very well.

This situation often occurs on domestic screens, such as swarms of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas, swarms of spy wars, swarms of palace fights, and swarms of cookie youth dramas...... See you until you get tired. Not to mention variety shows, shows, shows, inns, singing...... As long as there is a popular model, it will immediately bloom everywhere.

The play that Fortune Theater is currently staging is called "The Daughter of the Night", which is a relatively new play, not the kind that has been performed for more than ten or twenty years.

Theatre manager Drager is a typical Englishman, still wearing a three-piece suit in July, trousers, shirt, vest, and hair combed back, and the first thing he said when he saw Marcelo and Ji Ming:

"I thought you would only come for afternoon tea. ”

Marcelo had apparently briefly introduced Ji Ming to Drager.

"You're welcome, but don't use your Chinese kung fu here. ”

It's humorous.

"......" Ji Ming smiled, stretched out his hand, and when he was about to hold it with Drager, he quickly flipped it over, and slapped it sharply on the back of his hand: "Do you mean not to do this?"

Ahh

Dreg led Ji Ming into the theater that hadn't started yet, and it was even busier and more chaotic than after the show started - Ji Ming felt quite familiar, and the drama rehearsal was almost like this.

"Every once in a while, new actors will join in, and then they will rehearse about six days a week, more than 10 hours a day, and they will be on stage in two or four weeks," Marcelo explained to Ji Ming. Of course, most actors can't accept playing the same role for ten years. ”

"A career. Ji Ming nodded slightly.

Many actors in Mandarin are actually professional, performing on stage, buying groceries, cooking, shopping and picking up children off stage, such as Bai Feng. But the industrialization of the West End was more direct, with screenwriters, composers, actors, theaters, ...... Have your own schedule, two weeks a week, and then hand over your work and take the stage in front of the audience in the scheduled show.

"Actually, it's not entirely true, there are a lot of actors in the British film industry who have come out of the West End, and of course, they will come back to the West End. Deregg added: "Including a lot of British actors who ended up in Hollywood, like Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Radcliffe and many more. ”

If you hear these names, most Chinese people may not be able to react. But it was replaced by Harry Potter, who was shaking, curling, and disabled...... Everyone understands it very well.

"So it's not only the West End for professional stage actors, but also a shortcut to showbiz, and a lifelong college for film and television stars. Deregg concluded.

Ji Ming was amazed.

He leaned into Chu Qing's ear, and his expression did not move at all: "The commercial film market has been eaten up by Hollywood, and newcomers have no place to go, so they can only come to the West End." ”

Chu Qing didn't have him to act, so he had to turn his head and pretend to watch the decoration.

Dreg intimately introduced to her, when it was built, what style, and how elaborate the decoration was, a bit of "tell you, I want to ...... back then". However, professionally, the crew still touched Ji Ming a lot.

"Daughter of the Night" is a thriller story about a woman who pretends to be a ghost and will come out on some night to look for something, what to find, her love. Every time I come out and can't find it, I will take away someone else's sweet love - a blackened lemon.

Ji Ming's first impression was, ah, the age group is so broad.

There are girls with freckles and fluff on their skin, and there are also aunts with disfigured figures and brown spots on their faces - they all play girls who are in love. The actor is a little more demanding, either a young handsome guy or an uncle with a temperament, and he has never seen a bald head and a big belly play the object of girls.

The second impression is that I dare to sing.

Limited by age and training, the two actors he heard singing were actually not very outstanding in terms of vocal music, and could only be said to meet the level. But I really dare to sing, I am completely the first in the world, and I will take the momentum of the Grammys tomorrow, I am very confident, so it is particularly convincing.

"They're working so hard. ”

"Hmm. Ji Ming also agrees with what Chu Qing said, it is really hard, a piece of singing, you can practice ten times without stopping, it is simply repeated, on stage, in position, singing, in the same plot, in the same singing, this kind of repetitive training will eventually be engraved into instinct, so that they can make as few mistakes as possible when performing.

Commercialization, really commercialization.

"Do you think this level of production would pose a challenge to the artistry of the work?

Dreg laughed: "What is art? Isn't business an art? Those billionaires, every one of them is an artist in the commercial market." Of course, I know what you mean, if the play is being rehearsed for the first time, and it's about to premiere, then it takes a lot more time and energy, especially the lead time, which is often very long – because once it starts coming out, we want it to be popular for ten years. Of course, the same is true for many important rearrangements. But for a drama that is going on and everything is certain, yes, we can only give the actors so much time. ”

"As for what they can do, it depends on their talent and ability. Marcelo added: "Over the years, there has been no shortage of people who have been able to get out of this rhythm. ”

Every moment, you can learn something new.

"Hey, Dreig, we're going...... Chinese performance?" One of the heroines who played the ghost glanced around at Ji Ming and judged that he should be Chinese: "If you can, let me go, I have always wanted to go to China." ”

"I'll think about it, Tina. ”

"Does he really want to go to China, or does he just want to have a show? ”

Marcelo smiled.

Ji Ming then understood that it was the latter.

Tina walked back to the rehearsal crowd, muttering something she didn't know what she was saying, it didn't seem too tight, at least her mouth. Soon someone shouted: "Are you really going to China?"

Nice atmosphere.

Dreg approached with Ji Ming: "Rehearse with peace of mind, at least there are no plans to go to China now." This is MIng, a Chinese film actor who starred in the Chinese film "Meet the Land of the Gods", which attracted a lot of attention in Europe last year. He wanted to know more about the production process of our play, and I took him to see it. ”

"I know," a group of dancing girls suddenly shouted, looking at their companions, "Figramu's spokesperson, the last time we went to buy shoes, we had a picture of him." ”

It seems that handsome guys are recognizable everywhere.

"Are you going to do a musical?" Tina took a sip of water, "If you need actors, there are plenty of them." ”

"Haha," Ji Ming really likes such a direct way, I want to act in your play, so I told you, you choose: "Maybe there will be opportunities in the future, you are all very amazing." Can I ask some questions?"

Tina looked at Dreig, after all, it was working time, and Dreg nodded.

"You ask. ”

"I just watched you perform four times, that is, singing "Where is Love"-" Ji Ming didn't know the name of the song, roughly summarized the name from the lyrics, looked at Tina inquiringly, didn't know if she could understand, saw her nod, and continued: "In that paragraph, you deliberately avoided some of your vocal flaws in the second time, right? But in the third and fourth times, it seems that you didn't do that, can you tell me why? Or did I hear it wrong?"

Tina's face was surprised.

This Chinese, who looks tender and charming, is actually an expert.

"Can you hear that?"

"......" Ji Ming blinked: "Many people should be able to hear it." ”

Tina burst into laughter: "Yes, I'm still taking vocal lessons, and there are some obvious deficiencies. As you said, after the first pass, I want to sing a little better, from the audience's side. But I found that this kind of control made my whole performance infectious, like I was walking, and if I didn't control my posture, I could walk very freely, relaxedly, and happily, but when I had to follow etiquette, I had to look awkwardly at the ground and be careful. I don't think acting should be like that. ”

"So it's worth it to keep the flaws in the singing?"

Tina shrugged her shoulders, "At least that's what I think, my Jeffrey is." ”

Ji Ming thought for a while and nodded: "Thank you." ”

Draeger stood on the side and asked, "Will you star yourself?"

Otherwise, why do you understand it so well, and you have to ask the actors in detail.

Ji Ming confirmed his question: "Yes, I will be the leading actor, but the director will have someone else." ”

"What kind of story is that?"

Ji Ming thought of several passages that briefly described "Silence", but finally gave an answer: "A story like "Black Swan", Natalie Portman." ”

"Dance drama?"

"Musical Dance Drama!"

Dreger let out an inexplicable "wow", and even Marcelo on the side just knew: "So you not only have to act, but also sing and dance?"

"Yes!"

Isn't it very bullish?

It's a pity that what Ji Ming saw was not like this at all, if you want to describe what everyone thinks in their eyes, it probably has to be - look at a nouveau riche here, ready to waste money, and treat musicals as a new pastime.

Well?

"Would you like to play a part? here. Tina was a little "ill-intentioned".

Why not?

Ji Ming has been watching it for a long time, and he has long been itchy, no matter how good the atmosphere here is, how complete the system is here, how rich the atmosphere is here, and how free the actors are here, but, frankly speaking, Tina and them are not good enough - they don't sing well enough, they don't dance well enough, and their acting is not good enough.

"Of course you can, how about playing his part?" Ji Ming pointed to an actor.

On the first night of the ghost Gephine, the actor plays a character who tells his lover that "You Are a Genie in the Moonlight". Then Gephany comes out, taunts them and is angry that she can't find her love, and then kills him, his lover sings "You Killed Him" in horror, and Gephany sings "Where is Love" to relapse into the darkness.

What Ji Ming wants to sing is "You Are a Spirit in the Moonlight", the words are relatively simple, and after listening to it a few times just now, he can basically go down.

"You're going to play our play?

It's arrogant.