Chapter 32: The Script of the Song and Dance Drama
"You mean, you write a script?" Emily asked, surprised. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"That's right, that's it, a new script, I'll write it!" Xu An nodded, becoming more and more firm in his thoughts, "I have a good story, but I can't make music or dance, but I know what kind of song to use and what kind of dance to dance, I mean...... I've got to find someone who knows music and someone who can dance to help me! ”
"What do you mean? The average person doesn't know how to make music. Emily put down her glass, a little confused, she didn't quite understand what Xu An was talking about.
"It's like this, da-da-da, da-da-da......" Xu An hummed a rhythm quietly, and then said: "That's it, I know I should sing it, but I can't write it down, do you understand?" ”
Emily burst out laughing, "Oh please, Ann, I promise this song must not be sung like this, you definitely didn't sing the key!" ”
Xu An slapped his forehead, and was speechless for a moment, he forgot that he couldn't find the ability to sing anymore, after thinking for a while, he continued: "It seems that I have to find a way to learn how to arrange, this can't work." ”
"Are you sure you've come up with some good songs that you can use in a revue?" Emily looked at Xu An suspiciously, she had completely seen Xu An's unique skill, and it was really funny.
"Of course, you can't doubt my abilities, just like writing!" Xu An said with certainty, "Although I can't sing them, I can write them!" ”
"Okay, then we'll see!" Emily said uncertainly, she was still full of doubts about Xu An's words, how could a person who sings out of tune create a good song? It's just incredible.
Xu An didn't have any doubts, he sang out of tune not because his sense of musicality was too bad, in fact, the correct tune was in his mind, but he didn't know why he changed as soon as he sang it, "You'll be surprised, I promise!" ”
"If it's the same with dance, I think I can help, I had a lot of dance classes when I first came to New York, we can try it together!" Emily said.
"Would you like to try it with me?" Xu An asked.
"Why not?" Emily blinked and said, "It's going to be a good story at least!" ”
"Then after your performance, maybe this new drama will make you an instant hit, and we won't need this!" Xu An said.
"I hope you still have time to prepare a new script after your new book sells!"
The two looked at each other and smiled, raised their wine glasses and touched them gently, the atmosphere of the dinner was very good, the two of them tasted the food in small sips, talked about various topics casually, and at the end, both of them had a feeling of unfinished.
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At night, with a hint of coolness in the autumn breeze, Xu An sat at his desk and carefully wrote the words "Twilight, Twilight" on a piece of manuscript paper.
Then he didn't start writing books, but recalled in his mind a few musical and dance dramas he had watched through Stephen's perspective in his dream, not many, only six or seven, none of which he went to the opera house to watch, all of them were videos, Stephen had no interest in these things before he was paralyzed, and he could no longer engage in extreme sports after the injury, and his temperament changed a lot, and he began to be keen on various literary works, novels, comics, music, movies and TV episodes, etc., and he also watched several musical and dance dramas with a wide range of influences.
Xu An is now more and more interested in the various works he saw in his dreams, and he first started writing "A Song of Ice and Fire" because he was shocked by the huge and rigorous fantasy world, and he wanted to complete this work, and he wrote "Bones" because he was motivated.
He will probably never forget the look in Lance holding the manuscript of "Lovely Bones" and asking him to use the manuscript to offset the agency fee, and perhaps more "Lance" saw this, and then came out of the trauma in his heart and started a new life.
After thinking about it for a while, he opened a new piece of manuscript paper and wrote a big word on it: "Cat"!
"Cats" is a classic musical, known as one of the four major musicals of all time, and it has countless halos on it: the most successful and longest-performing musical in the United Kingdom, the highest-grossing musical drama, the Broadway performance lasted for 18 years, and it is also one of the longest-running and most performed shows on Broadway.
When it comes to musicals, "Cats" is definitely a peak that cannot be bypassed, but Xu An thought about this revue, still frowned, crumpled the manuscript paper into a ball and threw it into the wastebasket.
This revue has been an unprecedented success in Stephen's world, and it will not be too bad in Xu An's world, Xu An wants to create it very much, but he has to admit that he has no strength at all.
With more than 30 famous actors, a complex stage, and more than 30 original songs, this is simply not a job that a novice can do.
Andrew, the author of Cats, is a true master of musical, and after the great success of Cats, he created a classic play, The Phantom of the Opera, which is even more influential than Cats.
Xu An admired Andrew so much, this guy is like winning the Nobel Prize in Literature twice in a row, it is simply an inhuman achievement!
Like Cats, The Phantom of the Opera is also difficult to replicate, with complex actors, a large number of original songs, and especially a large amount of classical music used in the background to be a chasm that is difficult for Xu An to bridge.
These classic songs are so beautiful that Xu An would love to move them to his own world, so that all those who love song and dance can enjoy the magic from another world.
But not now!
Xu An thought for a long time before writing a few words on the manuscript paper again: "Mamma Mia"
Compared with "Cats" and "Phantom of the Opera", "Mamma Mia" is much simpler, its actors are not so complicated, the story mainly revolves around three old men and three old women, and a girl to be married, the background is modern society, and the music interspersed in the play is almost all based on the classic songs of a Swedish band called ABBA, although there are as many as 22 songs, but it is relatively easy compared to the two classic songs with more than 30 songs.
Xu An can even think now that Emily can play Sophie and Rachel can play her mother Donna!
Bruce and Arthur they can also have suitable roles, Bruce's cabaret troupe is not many, just enough to get together the main cast of "Mamma Mia", and the dance is relatively simple, he can discuss it with Emily, it doesn't necessarily have to be consistent with the original book, compared to the storyline and the songs in the play, the dance has the most flexibility!