CCTV5 also played some tricks in this live musical, and the gimmick was very full, and invited the famous post-60s star Fei Xiang as a guest. Before it officially opened, the channel's ratings were already high.

Fei Xiang is a legend in the Chinese entertainment industry, graduated from Shilin American School in Taipei in 1978 and was admitted to Stanford University with honors and began to study medicine. A year later, he transferred to the theater department of Stanford University, and later entered New York to specialize in stage acting. This kind of person belongs to the super top student.

Fei Xiang was once popular all over China, and at the Spring Festival Gala in 1987, he sang a song "Clouds of Hometown" and women all over the country wanted to write love letters to him.

In 1989, Fei Xiang held a total of 65 concerts in 12 cities in Chinese mainland, and the Central News Film Studio at that time also specially combined this tour to shoot the documentary film "Fei Xiang and His Song". After the concert tour, Fei Xiang bid farewell to the Chinese pop music scene and went to New York to seek the development of musicals and stage plays, and began his new pursuit and challenge.

In 1991, Fei Xiang competed to participate in the musical "Miss Saigon" and became a team actor, and then he appeared in musicals such as "Hot Key" and "Nico and Nora". Soon he was chosen by Andrew Webb as one of the four lead singers for his feature work, touring more than 40 cities in the United States, where he also played the Phantom.

Fei Xiang's achievements in the United States are very high, but in Chinese musicals belong to a small niche, and there are not many people who like and pay attention to them, so his popularity has declined a lot in China.

In 1997, he promoted musicals in China and translated some classic songs into Chinese, and he was happy to be a guest when he learned about it.

Fei Xiang first briefly introduced the background of the story, and then the musical began, and he would make some explanations for some places that were not easy for the audience to understand.

The story of the musical is basically the same as the movie, Guo Xu will not appear until a while and wait backstage.

Ciella, who was playing the starring role for the first time, was restless and nervous to death, Guo Xu, who had already made the phantom shape, walked up to her, gently stroked her head, and encouraged: "You must do it, because you are Christine Daye." ”

Ciella was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and her confidence returned.

Guo Xu is right, she is very much like Christine in reality, this is her true performance. She suddenly became the heroine of this big play, like a play within a play, and Guo Xu did teach her a lot like a phantom.

Guo Xu teaches not singing, but acting, which is better than Patrick Wilson, who has been in Hollywood for many years. This made Xiella feel incredible, Guo Xu told her how to improve her acting skills, and taught as professionally as a teacher in a film and television school teaching students. (He really worked as a teacher)

Some of Guo Xu's small details are very exquisitely designed, as long as Xi Ella acts according to what he says, she will be brilliant, singing is what she is good at, more powerful than Guo Xu, as long as she performs well, it is foolproof.

The opening is an auction in flashbacks, with the already aged Viscount Raul auctioning off a monkey music box. Then the item that was auctioned off was an ornate chandelier, and the auction host spoke of "the paranormal event of the Phantom of the Opera", which led to the theme.

After a brief introduction to the disaster and the rebuilding of the damaged chandelier, the symphony orchestra began to play the theme song while the cloth covering the chandelier was pulled up.

Before Guo Xu appeared, many viewers felt a little shocked, because the crew really hung a large ceiling over the stadium. In order to study how to avoid the big screen of the arena and not affect the progress of the basketball game in the future, when arranging the stage props, the people of the Grand Theater used their brains and tossed for two days.

In order to cooperate with this performance, the league deliberately changed the time of the last game of the Rockets to facilitate the crew to set up the stage. The Rockets didn't play four days before the Star Weekend, which allowed Guo Xu and others to have a smooth rehearsal on Wednesday and Thursday.

The first act is the performance time for the supporting actors, and the singers and extras of the Grand Theater are very hard-working.

Because Guo Xu did not appear, in order to stabilize the Chinese audience, the three hosts explained together.

Fei Xiang explained that there are three ingenious "play-within-a-play" settings in the play. The setting of The Phantom of the Opera is set at the Paris Opera, so the opera performance is an important thread throughout the film.

The beauty lies in the fact that the three play-within-a-play written by Andrew Webb not only bring an audio-visual feast to the audience, but also echo the plot, making the plot coherent and bringing the audience an emotional impact, providing hints, foreshadowing and setting clues for the development of the story, indicating the emergence or intensification of contradictions, and giving the viewer a sense of wandering between reality and illusion.

The first act is the rehearsal of the play within a play, "Hannibal", when the crowd sings "Listen to the drum, Hannibal has come", which is a metaphor for the appearance of the "phantom" that has been hidden in the opera house for a long time. Because Hannibal's ferociousness and aggressiveness are the same as those of the Phantom.

"Hannibal has come" here is like a "phantom" coming out of a damp and dark sewer, wearing a black mask and a black cloak, and the evil aura is blowing in his face, giving the viewer a strong hint and foreshadowing the scene that follows. The bloody prop head in the rehearsal of "Hannibal" gave the audience a strong psychological shock, and also pointed out the murder of the future "Phantom" in order to achieve the goal.

Most Chinese viewers don't care about this, they don't find it attractive at all, and even start to get drowsy, and many people text to ask why the protagonist Guo Xu hasn't appeared yet?

"Mermaid" Ciella set off the first climax of the musical.

Her Christine finished the movie version of the heroine as soon as she appeared on the stage, and when she was called out to sing by Mrs. Gilly, she was hunched over, leaning forward and standing up straight, her face was full of nervousness, and she looked unconfident. After singing two lines, she even wanted to run, but Lady Gilly knocked the ground with her cane before she stopped.

This small detail caught people's attention, and then Christine's singing gradually got better, and she was not nervous after a quick change of clothes on stage, and she also pulled a scarf, with rich body language, vividly.

Next, Christine and her friend Meg talked about the musical angel, and recognized her childhood sweetheart, Viscount Raul.

At this time, all the professional film critics who came to see the play had already recognized Xiella, and her acting skills were unexpectedly good. Many people are ready to use this to criticize Guo Xu, thinking that it is difficult for him to compare his acting skills with people from two majors, and the gap will definitely be very big.

Who would have thought that during rehearsals, Guo Xu was the master? For his performance, Patrick was also convinced.

When Raul went out, Guo Xu finally opened his voice, and he didn't show up, so he sang a paragraph first.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he attracted everyone. "Arrogant boy, slave of fashion, indulge in your glory! Ignorant fool, brave young suitor, sit back and enjoy the fruits of my victory! ”

Guo Xu's voice is thick and high-pitched, like chicken blood, which is completely different from when he sings pop songs, and the fans who came to the scene were stunned.

Is this what Jason Guo sings? Not quite like that!

Christine, are all the angels in your family so bloody?

The playwright Andrew became excited, he admired Guo Xu's acting the most, his singing voice was great, and he showed the phantom's strong possessiveness as soon as he opened his mouth, and he began to show his acting skills before he showed his face. He is the least worried about Guo Xu's performance, and he has seen the full rehearsal before.

He knew that the surprise was still to come......