Aojia Zhang's shadow appeared in the musical Mamma Mia! 》

(Sina Entertainment News) The Music Legend of CCTV recently launched a series of programs introducing Broadway musicals. The first program tells the story of elaine paige elaine paige, a famous British musical actress who is known as the "First Lady of Musicals", and her legendary stage life. A famous musical actor, known as the "Queen of China Musicals", served as the program host. Shadow also reviewed his acquaintance with elaine paige in the program and looked forward to the opportunity to be on the same stage with this outstanding music elder.

The shadow said that when she performed the musical Mamma Mia at the Shanghai Grand Theatre! "When? Elaine paige happened to have another solo concert in Shanghai, and she will definitely go to see it. " Who can miss the first lady's singing in the musical? ".And Mamma Mia! The Chinese version of "Shadow" said that it is not convenient to disclose more details because he has a starring contract. The play has entered the stage of comprehensive rehearsal and "devil training" in Shanghai. I believe that this world classic musical produced in Asia and created by West End of London will definitely become a milestone in China's musical, playing the role of "Mamma Mia! Donna, the youngest first heroine in the performance history of 12 and in the language version of 14, will also be a highlight in her career as a professional musical actress. (Sina Entertainment News) The highly anticipated world classic musical Mamma Mia! The China version has been staged in Shanghai Daning Theatre since June 14. After ABBA's classic dance, the curtain call sounded again. The enthusiasm and energy of the audience were instantly detonated.

China version almost 100% restored the beauty of the original dance, lighting, music, choreography, costumes, props, and added many China elements. In addition to the Chinese version of the lyrics and dialogue, the folk dance movements interspersed among them also make the audience feel quite cordial. As a musical, lyrics are the soul. In order to ensure that the original ABBA band's 22 classic English tracks will not affect the fluency and beauty of the melody after being translated into Chinese, this performance draws lessons from the Korean version of Mamma Mia! The practice of classical lyrics such as "money, money, money" has been preserved.

As for the actress, Donna, the first heroine, was led by the shadow of The Queen of China Musical. Her performance was the biggest highlight of the whole performance, so she won the most praise from the audience. After singing the second scene of Donna's affectionate confession to her old lover Sam-the famous aria "Winner is King", the whole audience was conquered by her charming timbre, strong emotion and passionate singing. After the song fell, the audience applauded. As a professional musical actress, Shadow showed her good musical skills by playing a role older than her actual age. After more than a month's performance, the musical Mamma Mia! The China Edition ended its performance in Shanghai at the Shanghai Grand Theatre. Mamma Mia! The first performance of "Shanghai" was 32, with a total box office of160,000 yuan, which was another miracle created by China actors.

"The Queen of China Musical" is reflected in Mamma Mia! Play the heroine Donna. Shadow's excellent singing skills, rich figure and powerful and passionate typhoon have demonstrated the profound foundation and unique charm of a professional musical actor, won the audience's love and unanimous praise from the media, and even made the British media exclaim that "China has such excellent musical actors" and "is an international-class musical actor" after watching the Shanghai stop of Shadow's finale.

This starring "Mamma Mia! The shadow successfully shaped Donna, a former rock girl who experienced emotional ups and downs. The shadows on the stage have all kinds of distinct customs, sometimes naughty and sometimes melancholy. Her handsome and tall appearance, unrestrained and exquisite acting skills and extraordinary singing skills have added some ups and downs to Donna's life, and also made China's version of Mamma Mia! It has world-class production quality, especially when the winner sings the sad aria "Winner is King" in the play, the lower part is tender and the higher part is stirring. Every song fell, and the audience applauded and cheered when the curtain call was over. Some viewers said that this song, sung only by shadows, deserves to return to Mamma Mia! ""all the fares.

China musical Mamma Mia! It will be staged in Beijing for 80 consecutive performances in August, and then moved to Guangzhou. China audiences will have more opportunities to enjoy the extraordinary stage charm and professional music performances. Netease Entertainment once stood in the shadow of the musical stage with a brilliant record of 8 performances a week and 256 consecutive performances. In the Chinese version of the musical Mamma Mia! As Donna (Weibo), the "rock mommy", she shows the unique charm of a professional musical actress with her excellent singing skills, smart figure, powerful gas field and passionate performance style.

As one of the few professional musical actors in China, I am afraid that the professional skill of describing shadows with "singing and dancing" is even worse than that. In the shadow's view, performing skills such as singing, reading, doing, playing and dancing are compulsory courses for musical actors. "These skills must be mastered by a mature musical actor. You can't say you can't. Musical actors are manual workers. " The shadow said.

On and off the stage, she is changing different roles and identities, naturally free and easy.

Identity 1: Musical actor who does manual labor.

She received a master's degree in music stage performance from the Chicago Academy of Performing Arts (Roosevelt University). Since she was engaged in musical performances, she has gained fame and accumulated a high reputation, and is known as the "Queen of Musicals in China". However, the shadow is still so calm. "It's just my way of life." She said.

Speaking of the difference between musical and drama, the shadow said, "There are many kinds of stage performance systems. China's drama performance is basically derived from the Stani system of the former Soviet Union, emphasizing the connection between inner experience and performance; However, the musicals developed in the west for nearly 150 years require their live performances to be exaggerated and direct, with extraordinary appeal. The difference between musicals and dramas is that the audience's appreciation expectations are different, so the theater effects are different. " She told reporters that the teacher's requirement for learning the first lesson of musical performance is that a musical actor must have the excellent quality of firmly grasping the audience's sensory attention within 30 seconds of playing. The shadow said, "In fact, Broadway musicals have a historical connection with China's traditional dramas. The German Brecht system, one of the three major performance systems, was inspired by China's opera a long time ago, while Broadway musicals mainly inherited the expressionist characteristics of the Brinell system, broke the fourth wall, and combined exaggeration, directness and singing to infect the audience in all directions. "

It can be seen that a professional musical actor is not only a physical activity, but also a technical activity.

Identity 2: "non-Chinese mother" Donna

Shadow will play the musical Mamma Mia! Being positioned as a "commercial drama", there is only one measure of the success of a commercial drama, and that is "to talk about heroes in the second place". In this regard, Li, the teacher of Shadow and the producer and director of I Have a Dream, also said that the only purpose of commercial drama is to make money. "Commercial drama is actually better than artistic drama, because there is no uniform standard for artistic judgment, and good or bad is really a matter of opinion.

Therefore, Donna, played by the shadow, vaguely has a heroic temperament on the stage, sometimes naughty, sometimes irritable, and her mood changes in an instant. Her cheerful appearance adds a little joy to Donna's life, which makes Mamma Mia! "Add a little comedy. In the earlier actor selection process, there was Mamma Mia! "Fans question that this tall, cheerful and international image does not match the image of a mother who has suffered a lot from life. In this regard, the shadow said: "As an actor, it is good to meet the role of the true color, but you can't eat by the true color. An actor's professionalism lies in being able to use skillful skills to interpret a character image different from his own temperament image to the fullest. For musical actors, these skills are singing, dancing and performing on the stage. "(Shenzhen Business Daily) went to the theater to make up at 4: 30 in the afternoon, recited the lines of the whole play, warmed up at 6: 30, made the final debugging at 7: 00 15, and went on stage at 7: 30. This is the musical Mamma Mia! Since the launch of China Edition, the starring shadow has been on the schedule before the performance almost every day.

Eight times a week, the world classic musical Mamma Mia! China Edition moved from Shanghai to Beijing on August 14, and began to perform 80 consecutive performances in Century Theatre. After that, the play will go south to Guangzhou to complete the record of 200 performances in the first season. As the drama continues to be hot all over the world, the China version has attracted much attention from the beginning of its creation, and this performance has caused a lot of topics. After coming back from the American musical stage, the shadow, known as the "Queen of China Musicals", was undoubtedly chosen as the protagonist of the play. Our reporter told mom Mia yesterday! The China version starring Shadow was interviewed.

After hundreds of performances in a row, I have long been accustomed to the shadow of professional musical actors. It has long been a practice not to eat after 3 pm every day. She has been on the stage since she was nine years old. "From the moment I stood on the stage, under the quiet spotlight, I knew that the place I wanted to stand most was there. That is the place where I will stay all my life and will not change. " The shadow thinks it's something dissolved in the blood. Although the stage of a musical is not like a stage play such as a film and television drama, it may always be unknown on this stage, but the shadow has been sticking to it. "It's just my way of life." She said.

Her lifestyle is to put on a musical. A young musical actor once asked her: What should a professional musical actor look like? She replied, I just don't do anything except play musicals at dinner. She said, "I don't make movies, I don't play TV series, I only play musicals." The experience of performing 256 consecutive performances in Chicago gave her a simple understanding of music performance: "This is a physical activity". Shadow told reporters that a mature musical actor must strictly maintain a disciplined life, so as to maintain abundant physical strength and show his best state on the stage. She insists on running 100 minutes every day, even if the performance ends in the evening, it will not affect this compulsory course. In Mamma Mia! On the stage, she personally expounded her understanding of the form: to conquer the audience in the senses, to look good, to listen and to have fun.

In the Chinese version of this musical, which is popular all over the world, the shadow plays Donna, the mother who has experienced rough love. For this role, the shadow decisively positioned her as a "non-Chinese mother": "Donna was a rock singer when she was young, and dare to love and hate, which is the most basic thing in her character. With the passage of time and the change of her identity, she became a mother and the proprietress of a hotel, shouldering the heavy burden of life, but her personality characteristics when she was young were still hidden in her. Sophie's daughter suddenly arrived, and the young Donna was not ready to be a mother at all, so she had to learn to be a mother slowly. She is the kind of person who thinks that being a mother means touching the child's forehead to see if there is a fever, and then learning to do so. She is not a mother in the traditional sense. Her maternity comes from her instinct, so sometimes Sophie, a clever and independent daughter, is more like her mother. "

The shadow is Mamma Mia! "The youngest in the global 14 version has brought fresh elements to the interpretation of Donna's role. Her nervous performance also won the admiration of the audience, especially a song "Winner is King". Some viewers said that this song is worth "Mamma Mia! "All the fares. The shadow said, "Musical actors are different from singers. We have a rule that when it comes to age, we only say the age range that we can play. I am 25 to 55 years old. Musical actors don't want to become famous overnight, they don't want to be household names, and they don't want to shine half the sky. I imagine the role I will play at every age. The top ten musical actors on Broadway are all around 50 years old. "

Shadow will play the musical Mamma Mia! Its positioning is "commercial drama", and there is only one measure of the success of commercial drama, that is, "On Heroes" and "Mamma Mia! Undoubtedly, The King of Musicals has established its position with its amazing global performance versions and times. The shadow said, "Mamma Mia! The importance of Chinese version in China music market and this industry is groundbreaking. For China musical actors, there is no obstacle to approach, communicate and infect their compatriots in their mother tongue, which makes the beauty, energy and joy brought by musicals more powerful. "

How to ignite the audience's enthusiasm for watching the drama in an instant is one of the necessary performance skills for a professional musical actor. The shadow appeared and "Mamma Mia! & gt Before, her teacher, Li, a famous music producer, made a request to her: You must write the song Money! "Not long after the opening. Money! Win applause from the audience, even applause and interaction. Li said to him, "Money! Money! " It is a key song in the whole play. The key lies in its initial position. At this time, the audience is not fully used to the expression of musicals. Being able to stir up the audience's emotions in this song is to help the audience enter the preset situation, and the later scenes will be much easier. "(Beiqing Entertainment News) Musical Mamma Mia! China Edition 100 shows over half, and the cumulative box office in Beijing and Shanghai exceeded 26 million yuan. So far, this world-renowned musical has been a great success in China, winning a professional reputation and huge market response.

In Mamma Mia! Donna, the first heroine, is the shadow of a musical star known as the "Queen of China Musicals". Since 100 performances, Ying has shown the audience the profound foundation and superb charm of a professional musical actor with her superb acting skills, outstanding singing skills, rich limbs and amazing typhoons. It has won the praise of tens of thousands of viewers who have seen the play, and it has also made people in the industry talk about it. Even the international media who watched the shadow play exclaimed that "China has such excellent musical actors" and "Shadow Play is a musical star with international professional standards".

Musical Mamma Mia! Born in 1999, it has been sung in 13 languages in 240 cities around the world since 12, with more than 40 million audiences. China version of Mamma Mia! "It's the number 14 of this world musical, and the shadow under the age of 30 is also the youngest Donna in the history of the play.

A popular phrase in the audience all over the world more or less explains Mamma Mia! "One of the reasons why it is popular all over the world:" Everyone can read Mamma Mia! Aojia Zhang, who found her own Shadow in ".",finally became a member of the global family of this classic musical in her music career. Shadow and Mamma Mia! "The fate is not shallow." When I was studying at the Chicago Academy of Performing Arts in 2003, I once wrote Mamma Mia! Played the daughter Sophie in Mamma Mia in 2006. When the English version came to China, I invoiced the English version as the representative of China Musical in Beijing. At that time, I was looking forward to playing this musical in my mother tongue one day. I really appeared in the Chinese version this year and played the role of Donna, my mother. This can really be said to be a magical fate, but this magic and shock is the unique effect of musicals. "

As one of the few professional musical actors in China, it is more appropriate to use "singing and dancing" to describe the film. Shadow graduated from Chicago Academy of Performing Arts, majoring in music stage performance. After graduation, she performed such musicals as Weber's Extraordinary Charm Concert, Miss Saigon, and Flying Over the Madhouse on Broadway in Chicago, and was known as "Broadway China Girl". Since 2005, he has starred in musicals "Jinsha", "I had a dream" and "Me" in China, among which shadow people's musical "I had a dream" premiered in Beijing People's Art Stage and won the grand prize of the 7th Beijing International Drama Festival. Shadow has published the only two music records in China so far, classic excerpts from Broadway musical "Shadow Sing" and classic excerpts from West End of London musical "Shadow Sing", and has cooperated with major symphony orchestras for many times, accumulating high professional reputation and audience awareness, and is called "China Musical Queen".

From Broadway China Girls to Mamma Mia! "Donna China", the shadow said, "Mamma Mia! The success of China version indicates that China's musical industry will enter an unprecedented new era. As a professional musical actress, she will devote herself to this wonderful and magical musical new era belonging to China people with her stage dream, expecting every audience in China to watch this passionate and happy "Mamma Mia! China musical queen, the first female voice in Asia on Broadway, the world classic musical Mamma Mia! Shadow, the first heroine of China's Cat, gave a wonderful performance with Liu Dongfeng, a famous jazz pianist, at the Blue Night Party of Boao Forum held in Hainan. Miss Shadow sang "Winner Takes All" by ABBA band, a national treasure music group from Sweden, and won applause from the guests present. The winner is also the musical Mamma Mia! The theme song of.

According to the film revealed to the local media at the party, the musical Mamma Mia! The new season's performance will be held in Shanghai, and the performance will last for half a year. The cities visited are all over Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and other cities. This is also the strong return of this musical, which is popular all over the world and known as the "No.1 in the world", following the premiere of the 20 1 1 China version. As the heroine Donna's first performance, China will once again appear as the first-class and strongest musical lineup. "Happy blue stage.