Text Chapter 293, Concert

Lee Theatre is one of the most famous cinemas in Hong Kong, located at 99 Percival Street in Causeway Bay, at the junction of Percival Street and Blaze East Street, facing Leighton Road. It is mainly used for Cantonese opera, opera and concert performances, as well as film screening.

In 1978, when the Hong Kong Red Stadium was not built, the Lee Stage was the main venue for Hong Kong's noble entertainment performances, and many of the biggest singers would hold concerts here.

The final of the first Miss Hong Kong contest held by TVB was held on the Lee Stage. Since then, the Miss Hong Kong contest finals have usually been held on the Lee Stage every year until the late 1980s, of course, this is also the reason why the Lee Stage is owned by the Lee family, after all, the fertilizer does not flow into the fields of outsiders.

Today is the opening day of Deng Lijun's solo concert in Hong Kong, and the venue is at the Lee Stage.

It's only four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and there are already fans waiting outside the door. There are those holding a huge poster of Deng Lijun, some holding a large bouquet of flowers, and some holding a stack of records ready to sign the ......

Because of the reason that there were too many fans on the scene, in order to prevent accidents, Lei Weidong arranged more than a dozen bodyguards to accompany him and Zhong Chuhong to listen to the concert together. After all, there are so many tickets, and it is a waste to use them, and Xu Xiaoling's legs are inconvenient, so you can take care of them if there are many people.

When the group came to the door of the Lee Stage Theater, the scene was already crowded, and people kept talking about Deng Lijun.

The geographical location of the Li Stage Grand Theater is very similar to Lei Weidong's own leading theaters, all of which are located at the crossroads, but to be precise, it should be better than those theaters, the Li Stage is at a three-way intersection, and it is in the center of the three-way intersection, just like the location of those highway turntables in later generations.

You must know that Lee Stage is the first of the five major theaters in Hong Kong, and its geographical location is naturally not ordinary.

In the section of the stage, the traffic is very busy, from time to time there are cars honking past the crowd, the sound of the car horn and the crowded flow of people, the scene looks particularly lively.

From the outside, the Li Stage Grand Theater looks like a huge triangular cake, and the appearance of the whole Grand Theater looks much better than those old theaters, and the theater left by Lei Weidong's grandfather and the four theaters bought from Lei Tycoon are not as luxurious as Li Stage.

Even those multi-purpose theaters can't be compared with them after they are built, because the multi-purpose theaters are located inside the building, and such a large piece of feng shui treasure like the Lee Stage is occupied.

Of course, with the development of the economy, theaters like Lee Stage must be the object of demolition, in parallel time and space, because Hong Kong's economy has taken off, and real estate is priceless.

The Ritchie family began to consider dismantling the Lee Stage to bring greater economic benefits.

In March 1991, Hysan Development, a subsidiary of the Ritchie family, purchased the Lee Stage land from the Ritchie family for HK$450 million. When Lee Theatre ceased to open in July 1991, Lo Man held a farewell concert before Lee Theatre was demolished, and RTHK Television produced a special programme to commemorate the building.

The Ritchie family used the land on the Lee Stage to build the Lee Stage Plaza in 1995.

Lee Stage Plaza is a commercial building focusing on shopping and dining, with shops, restaurants and fitness centers throughout the building, without offices, which is different from the office design on the upper floors of ordinary commercial buildings in Hong Kong.

The classic couplets on both sides of the Lee Stage stage have been preserved to this day and are now hung on both sides of the main entrance lobby of Lee Stage Plaza.

At the same time, in order to commemorate Lee Stage, there is a cinema on the 5th floor of Lee Stage Plaza, which was managed by Jiahe Film in the early days, and was operated by Xinbao Entertainment Co., Ltd. in March 2001.

Due to the design, equipment and size of the cinema, it was unable to face the competition of other cinemas in the same district, and the box office was not satisfactory, and finally closed on May 29, 2005, and the last films released were "Precocious" and "Very Puberty", which were later converted into restaurants.

Of course, this is all in the future, and now the Grand Theater is very luxurious, because the theater is made of marble, with a small tower on the top of the gate, a canopy on the main entrance and sides, a round arched vault on the top, and nine golden dragons decorated with gold leaf on the painting, the appearance is different.

After entering the theater, Lei Weidong found that although the Li stage was not as tall and spacious as the gymnasium, in 78 years, it was already the largest stage in Hong Kong, and the entire theater was brightly lit, upstairs and downstairs, in addition to those boxes, it could accommodate more than 2,000 audiences.

Such a large theater can only be compared with the Taiping Theater in Hong Kong.

Because the Lee Stage is not a stadium, it is a large theater, so it has its own seats, and there will be no standing tickets.

Deng Lijun gave Lei Weidong and others a very good ticket seat, very forward, after all, the ticket seat he left for giving away must be the best, after sitting down, Lei Weidong saw that the entire stage was surrounded by a heavy curtain, and he couldn't see the situation inside, and the people around him were already full of people, and the people behind him were still pouring into the theater.

Because the concert has not started yet, there are many people, and everyone is talking about it, and it is not interrupted. Some people speculate about what kind of amazing show will come later.

'I didn't expect so many people, but luckily I got a ticket'

'I like Deng Lijun's songs so much, she must see her concert'

"This is Deng Lijun's solo concert, she has to sing a lot of songs by herself, this time I can finally listen to enough"

"I finally got the tickets for Deng Lijun's concert, those damn scalpers, this ticket is a whole generation more expensive than the regular one"

'It's good if you can buy a ticket, it's too expensive'

I heard that Deng Lijun has a lot of new songs released this time.

Coming to the Li stage, everyone's topic obviously revolved around Deng Lijun, a very popular female singer in Hong Kong.

Because Deng Lijun was often dragged by her mother to Hong Kong when she was young, she had experience performing on stage in large nightclubs and major theaters in Hong Kong, but ordinary Hong Kong people were not very familiar with this female singer from Taiwan at that time.

However, since Deng Lijun joined Hong Kong Polygram Records, the company has spared no effort in her promotion in Hong Kong, and many Deng Lijun's songs have been broadcast on TV, so that Deng Lijun has quickly had many enthusiastic fans in Hong Kong, even if it is a local singer in Hong Kong, there are few fans like Deng Lijun now.

In order to expand the influence of Deng Lijun, Hong Kong Polygram Records has held Deng Lijun's solo concert on the Lee Stage for three consecutive years since 76, and the venue was full. This year is said to be Mr. Deng's last concert in Hong Kong in recent times.

So it's completely normal for a ticket to be hard to come by.

Although it was mainly used for Cantonese opera performances in its early days, it was the first of its kind in Hong Kong, designed by a French engineer based on the design of a French and Italian opera house in the late 19th century, but with Chinese decorations on the interior.

As the most luxurious performance venue in Hong Kong, the Lee Stage can be said to be worthy of its name, with the carving of Danfeng Chaoyang on the top floor and the carving of two dragons fighting for pearls on the lower floor; On both sides of the stage hung the pair of classic couplets: Li is good at the southeast and all the countries are dressed in a beautiful place, and the dance is full of the flute and the pipe.

As for the stage, which could rotate 360 degrees and automatically change sets, it was the only theatre in Hong Kong at that time to have such equipment.

Time was slowly passing, the concert kicked off with a wonderful group dance, as the lights turned on, a beautiful and soft singing voice came, only to see Deng Lijun wearing a black evening dress and holding a microphone in his right hand on the stage of the Grand Theater.

At this time, many viewers saw Deng Lijun, and many people shouted: "Ah it's Deng Lijun!" It's Deng Lijun".

Before Lei Weidong could react, people's tide-like voices overshadowed Deng Lijun's beautiful singing, and some people actually stood up excitedly, you must know that this is a big theater, not a stadium, which is enough to see the fans' love for Deng Lijun, and even Zhong Chuhong and others around him were obviously affected and shouted together.

The stage was full of smoke, and the fog turned red for a while with the change of lights; Blue for a while; Purple for a while; Like a kaleidoscopic rainbow. Deng Lijun kept walking around on the stage, she turned around and waved to the audience, and suddenly everyone in the audience burst into thunderous applause.

After thinking about the applause, the noise finally quieted down a little.

Deng Lijun's singing voice is so crisp and soft, like the call of a lark, like a turning sound, the heavenly singing echoes in the audience's ears, Deng Lijun's unique charming voice is unmatched, her sweet voice and extremely infectious singing, so that her singing voice is like a trickle, flowing into the hearts of the audience, even Lei Weidong, who doesn't understand music, can't help but be deeply intoxicated, so that he can't help but want to find the source of this singing like thin water.

In her songs, Lei Weidong basically can't hear her breathing voice, listening to her songs, people will feel that this is a kind of enjoyment, Deng Lijun's songs are mainly tender and secret, and the voice has a cotton-like softness and elasticity.

The soft light shines on Deng Lijun's body, the bright gems, dazzling colors, classical temperament, the beautiful black evening dress, the skin of ice muscles and jade bones, and the faint feelings that cannot be expressed in words after the song is sung, all of this makes Lei Weidong seem to have a sense of time and space disorder, as if he is in the old Shanghai where he is drunk and golden, singing and dancing.

Deng Lijun's singing voice is undoubted, and a generation is deeply intoxicated by her sweet singing voice.

Many years later, this generation is moving towards middle age in her singing. When Teresa Teng's song inadvertently drifts into your ears, you will still involuntarily stop, as if you were thinking of your first love in a lifetime.

Deng Lijun's singing voice has accompanied many people for such a long time in later generations, singing hundreds of classic songs with different styles in Chinese, Cantonese, Hokkien, Japanese, and English to make those singers who only sang one or two famous songs and disappeared to shame, and the biggest difficulty in appreciating Deng Lijun is that it is difficult to find a difficult song with a lantern.

It would be futile to compare any singer to Deng Lijun: there has never been a singer as well-rounded as she has mastered all kinds of songs and all of them well; Whether it's bel canto, popular or even English songs, many English songs have the original lead singer.

It can be said that Deng Lijun's achievements and influence are unparalleled.

No wonder some people say that where there is Deng Lijun's singing, there are Chinese.