The success of the rehearsal of "Three Fools", coupled with the fact that the tickets were sold out, gave the students of Form 01 a great boost of confidence, and they were ready to show their faces one by one. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhang Ran was also very satisfied with their state, but on the 10th, the students' state was suddenly not right. One by one, they looked weak, as if they had been hit by something.

During the rehearsal, Zhang Ran stopped several times and corrected it several times, but it didn't work. He finally got a little angry, and threw the mineral water bottle on the ground: "What the hell are you doing? You haven't eaten? There are still a few days before the performance, can you take it to perform in your current state?"

Zhang Ran has always paid attention to convincing people with reason, and rarely gets angry in front of students. But because of this, it was even more terrifying when he was angry, and the students were silent one by one. Zhang Ran looked at Cao Bingkun and said, "Cao Bingkun, what the hell do you say?"

Cao Bingkun hesitated for a moment and said, "Teacher Zhang, the newspaper said that you lost millions of dollars in "Three Fools", is it true?"

Zhang Ran was stunned: "What newspaper?

Cao Bingkun ran to his seat, took a copy of "Xinjing Daily" and handed it to Zhang Ran, watching him not speak.

Zhang Ran took the newspaper and read the article, mainly analyzing the drama market. Drama is quite niche in China, and the market is sluggish, even the National Theater is adhering to the route of low ticket prices, and even launched low-cost tickets of dozens of yuan. The article believes that Zhang Ran's directing drama is a useful attempt, which can allow more audiences to enter the theater and enjoy the drama, and can cultivate more theater audiences.

However, the article believes that Zhang Ran's commercial drama of this kind of big production is also very risky, although the 10,000 tickets of "Three Fools" were sold out, but in fact they did not make money and were still in a state of loss. If it is an ordinary drama, the tickets for eight performances at the Poly Theater can be sold out, and it will almost be able to pay off. However, the choreography, lighting, props, costumes, music, makeup, etc. of "Three Fools" are all invited from the National Theater, and they are all top-notch, with a cost of nearly 1.5 million. Propaganda smashed 1.5 million. The rent of the Poly Theater is 50,000 a day, and for eight performances, it will be rented for at least ten days, which is another 500,000. In addition, there are miscellaneous expenses such as eating, drinking, and transportation, which is less than 4 million.

The Poly Theatre has a total of 1,428 seats and a total of 11,424 tickets for eight performances. Zhang Ran kept some tickets for himself and gave some tickets, and in the end he sold almost 10,000 tickets. The ticket price structure of these 10,000 tickets is the "622" ratio, that is, 60% of all performance tickets are low-priced tickets, 20% are medium-priced tickets and 20% are high-priced tickets. The most expensive VIP ticket for "Three Fools" was 680 and the cheapest was 180, and it was finally sold for 2.5 million. The 2.5 million ticket agents have to withdraw 15% of the fee from the ticket price, plus taxes, and there is 2 million left, which means that there is a loss of 2 million after these eight performances.

The fact is indeed as the article says, and now "Three Fools" is still in a state of loss, and the loss is even more than the article says. However, he didn't tell the students about this, for fear of increasing the pressure on them, but he didn't expect the media to poke it out.

Zhang Ran was a little depressed, clapped his hands and summoned the students over, asked them to sit down, and said, "What the newspaper said is true, but this is only temporary, since I dare to let you go out to perform, it must have been carefully considered." Even if you can't make money, you certainly won't lose money. You don't need to worry, don't think about anything, just take the show seriously, the rest is my business!"

"Teacher Zhang, you posted such money, how can we ask for performance fees?"

"yes, we don't need a show fee!"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "If we perform at Nortel, or do campus tours at other universities, then I will definitely not give you performance fees." But now we are going out for a commercial performance, which is a commercial behavior, and since it is a commercial behavior, we must abide by the business rules. After you go out, you must remember that you must not talk about feelings when you talk about business, and when you talk about business, even if you are brothers, you must also calculate the accounts clearly, otherwise sooner or later you will turn your face because of something!"

"But ......"

"Nothing. This matter is not allowed to be mentioned again, whoever mentions it again will write 5,000 words of experience!"

"Teacher Zhang, you still lose so much money now, can you earn it back?"

"Don't worry, in the past two days, I have received calls from many foreign performance companies, including those in Modu and Guangdong, asking about the possibility of us performing there and the related expenses. Of course, it's just an inquiry now, and the matter is still undecided. Because we haven't officially performed yet, they are waiting for feedback from the audience after the official performance. In the past, there were also dramas staged in China with great momentum in the early days, but they disappeared after only a few performances, and now they are still waiting. If the audience responds strongly after the performance of "Three Fools", then we can sign a contract with these performance companies and do a national tour!"

Hearing about the national tour, the eyes of the students present lit up.

Zhang Ran looked at the sparkling eyes of the students and smiled: "As long as you can maintain the state when you were rehearsing with makeup, this matter will definitely be fine." If you can tour the whole country and be able to perform thirty or forty times, you will definitely be able to pay off. But if you're in this state, you're definitely going to be out of the fun!"

Ji Chen stood up suddenly: "Teacher Zhang, we shouldn't think about it, I know what to do!"

Zhang Ran waved at him and motioned for him to sit down: "Don't worry, since I've said this, I'll talk about it for a while and explain everything that should be said thoroughly, so as not to think nonsense." I'll just tell you this, even if we can't negotiate with the performance company in the end, we will go on a national tour. We're going to practice with other colleges and universities and do a national college tour! So you don't care about anything else, just put on a good show! You don't need to worry about money, and don't forget that "Three Fools" will be made in a movie version. The drama version is actually the pre-marketing strategy of the movie, and it doesn't matter if the drama loses money, just make money from the movie. Do you think my film will lose money? So you have to think about the money, just make a good film!"

"Teacher Zhang, many people say that we are so lucky to be your students, we are really lucky!"

"Don't be a sycophant, I don't eat this, I only look at the effect. Zhang Ran stood up, "Now restart rehearsals, if it's still like just now, I'm really going to curse!"

Through these words, the psychological baggage of the students was unloaded, and the movie version of "Three Fools" was also starring us, even if the drama lost money, it would be enough to earn it back through the movie.

In the following rehearsal, the students returned to their normal level, and the whole rehearsal was carried out vividly.

"Alright, that's all for today. Everyone go back and rest early, and continue tomorrow. Zhang Ran waved his hand, signaling that today's work was over.

Driving home, Zhang Ran opened the door and saw Zhang Jingxin sitting on the sofa reading the album.

Today's Central Academy of Fine Arts exam, it seems that you should do well. Zhang Ran asked, "Meditation, did you do well in the exam?"

Zhang Jingxin snorted: "Sketching is a broken mirror, which must be completed with a mirror as the main body and a realistic sketch technique, and I think I have painted it well." The color is to paint the autumn landscape, and the sunflower I painted is backlit, a large piece of golden yellow, which looks very brilliant and dazzling!"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Sounds good, much better than your sister." The last time your sister said she was going to draw a sketch for me, and I sat there for almost three hours. When she finished painting, I asked her, "What are you doing painting Huang Bo?"

Zhang Jingxin giggled, he could paint Zhang Ran as Huang Bo, how blind it was!

Zhang Jingchu came out of the kitchen with the dishes, rested on the table with the dishes, and crossed his hands on his waist: "You still say that I, obviously you painted me as Sister Furong first!" and then beckoned: "Come and eat!"

During the meal, Zhang Jingchu remembered a question: "Today I received the script "Huo Yuanjia", starring Jet Li and directed by Yu Rentai. What do you think?"

Zhang Ran groaned and said: "Jackie Chan and Jet Li's movies are all absolute protagonists, and the actresses are basically vases, playing an embellishment role." Taking on this kind of drama won't help you in your development, but there haven't been any good scripts lately. Acting in their plays at least did well at the box office, much better than those movies that lost both word-of-mouth and box office. Yes!"

Zhang Jingchu bit her chopsticks and said, "I know." How's your drama going?"

Zhang Ran talked about today's rehearsal, and then said: "Actually, I lied to them, and I haven't received an invitation from the performance company yet." Now the drama market is sluggish, unless someone like Meng Jinghua has already played his own signboard, most of the other dramas are not profitable, and now the performers are still in a wait-and-see state. The key is the performance, and if the performance is successful, then it will be able to go on a national tour!"

Zhang Jing first read the script of "Three Fools", and has absolute confidence in Zhang Ran: "It will definitely succeed!"

On the morning of the 15th, the Poly Theater had already set up the stage background. The stage art team has been setting up the venue since yesterday, and the stage has been arranged, but there are still some details that need to be adjusted. Zhang Ran personally inspected the costumes, props, and related equipment, and when there was really no problem, he called Li Xinyue to bring the students over.

The students were a little excited to go to the Poly Theater, the National Center for the Performing Arts is still under construction, and the Poly Theater can be regarded as the best theater in Beiping. This is the base of Lin Zhaohua and Lai Shengchuan, the two great gods of the drama industry, and their dramas are basically performed here. In addition, most of the well-known foreign performance groups will choose to perform at the Poly Theater when they perform in Beiping City. Therefore, the students were a little excited to perform here, and they jumped and jumped on it.

Zhang Ran trained them, and then let them familiarize themselves with the venue and find their respective positions. While every theater is similar, there are certainly some details that are different!

Walking around the stage and looking for a feeling, the students began to rehearse formally. At six o'clock, Zhang Ran announced the disbandment, and then told the students to rest early and prepare for tomorrow night's performance.

The next day, at nine o'clock to rehearse in the theater, Zhang Ran arrived at school at six o'clock as usual. He took a look at the state of the students, all of them were full of energy, and they were in very good condition, none of them had dark circles under their eyes, and no one was so nervous that they lost sleep. After guarding the students' morning work, Zhang Ran went to the cafeteria for breakfast together.

While eating in the cafeteria, several students came over to Zhang Ran and said, "Teacher Zhang, I can't go to see your performance, but I wish your performance a complete success!"

Coming out of the cafeteria, the bus was already waiting at the school gate. For this kind of commercial performance, eating, drinking, and Lazar must be prepared in full, and it is impossible for students to take a bus to go.

When they arrived at the Poly Theater, the students began to rehearse non-stop. This is the last rehearsal before the official start of the show, and it takes three hours to complete the whole play, and there is no time for a full rehearsal in the afternoon.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the students began to put on their make-up backstage for the final preparations for the performance. At the same time, at the entrance of the Poly Theater, there was already a long queue of spectators waiting to enter. (To be continued.) )