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Brief introduction of crosstalk hall
Crosstalk Society has made great efforts to create "Shanghai-style cross talk", combining traditional cross talk with modern fashion culture, and integrating various opera and film techniques, and has created many brand-new cross talk programs, such as "Shanghai Late Nine to Five", "Super Player", "Journey to the West", "Jin Lala's Promotion" and "Modern Shanghai", with more than 100 works. Deeply loved by the white-collar workers in Shencheng, 20,000 people attend live performances in the theater every year. The main actors are all born in 1980s, including, Zhang, Qi Yuanyuan, Li Juanyi, Yu Ruoxuan and Sun. The general consultant of the Crosstalk Club is Major General Li Lishan, a famous crosstalk allegro theorist and a national first-class actor of beijing comrade Cultural and Art Troupe.
Crosstalk Hall: Creating Shanghai Style "Laughter"
Our reporter Dai
In Lane 860, Nanjing West Road, Jing 'an District, Shanghai, an inconspicuous door is hidden in a shop along the street. Most passers-by don't know that there is a small theater with more than 200 seats in the alley.
From 20 10, there is always a long queue to pick up tickets at 5 or 6 pm every Friday and Sunday. Most of the people in the queue are young faces, and many people come here just to see the popular "Pinhuan Crosstalk Hall" in Weibo.
In the small open space between the ticket office and the theater, there are always two "round" men standing and greeting familiar tourists from time to time. One shuttles between the backstage and the box office, alternately speaking authentic Shanghai dialect and atypical Beijing dialect, while the other speaks authentic "Beijing films" and leads people in from time to time.
It took Deng Tao in Shanghai and Jin Yan in Beijing two years to make this small crosstalk hall burst into laughter with great energy.
In the autumn of 20 1 1, the long line in front of the small theater even reached the gate. Tickets for that day's performance were sold out as early as a month ago. In order to buy a few extra seats, many spectators lined up three hours in advance.
Just past the Spring Festival in the Year of the Loong, a group of "post-80s" crosstalk performers got angry on TV.
On New Year's Day and New Year's Day, crosstalk shows appeared on Oriental TV for two consecutive nights. Only more people know that there is such a funny team in Shanghai.
In fact, before they went on TV, they were already quietly on fire-the fixed-point special session of Xiangyin Bookstore was full every week, and the venue was added; There are 3-4 grand theater performances held in Lan Xin and Yihai every month, and the speed of ticket sales always occupies the top spot of ticket agents, which is called "low-key spectacle" in the performance market by the industry. ...
This is a cross talk team for enterprises. In the early stage, they went to various places to investigate the performance market, study the audience structure and consumer psychology, regard "works" as products, and highlight their characteristics with "baggage".
This small private enterprise with only a dozen employees started with a capital of 500,000 yuan, and gathered a group of cultural entrepreneurs who abandoned the original "white-collar" or even "golden collar" occupations. They have been dormant for two years and gradually become a climate.
What is a brand-new "post-80s crosstalk" and a popular "Shanghai crosstalk"?
Two young people who "liked this since childhood" came together five years ago, and it all started with a cross talk "playing with tickets" trip.
It's similar to every entrepreneurial story-it's always difficult and bumpy at first, then it's time to rock the boat and give up all previous efforts, and then it's time to make a comeback ... Crosstalk Hall is no exception.
The trajectory of environmental change may not be new, but every point on the trajectory is "cautious" step by step.
As early as 2006, Deng Tao, who was still working overtime in the media advertising industry from "white-collar" to "golden collar", and Jin Yan, who was born in a family of folk art lovers but didn't consider performing on stage, met the first cross talk fans who were active on the Internet in Shanghai and formed the famous "Shanghai Cross Talk Conference". Everyone left the community, entered the school, and started the cross talk "playing with tickets" tour.
The end result of playing with tickets is either listlessness and retreat one by one; Or you are in high spirits and out of control. Deng Tao and Jin Yan belong to the latter.
Jin Yan, born in 1980, Manchu, whose real name is Aisin Jiyoro. He grew up under the old Beijing city and the imperial city. Someone once vividly described his appearance-the one with the best hair in a cage of steamed bread.
Jin Yan felt that he didn't have the habit of "children of the Eight Banners". He doesn't walk birds, keep fish and is afraid of bugs. He just likes Quyi since he was a child, and the whole family likes it. He can repeat many jokes about hitting children at once, and sometimes he can add some "baggage".
Yan Jing had a relative who was in the field of Quyi. Later, he seriously studied from the famous crosstalk artist Li Lishan. Later, Jin Yan left Beijing to study in the south, and then came to Shanghai to become a new Shanghainese.
Deng Tao, another resounding name is Deng Xiaoxian. At the end of the 20th century, when online literature was all the rage, he was a famous writer. His experience in all walks of life in those years made him more confident in his cross talk.
At the end of the first 10 of the 2 1 0 century, Deng Tao gave up his well-paid job in advertising and devoted himself to cross talk.
These two fans, who were originally just "doing this since childhood", discovered the business opportunities and immediately hit it off and began to organize a "purely market-oriented Shanghai-style crosstalk troupe". After thinking about it, they used a low-key and restrained name-"Pinhuan Crosstalk Hall" to convey their consensus that joy is for taste and cross talk is for everyone to play.
From the beginning, the Crosstalk Hall revealed Jobs' entrepreneurial interest-my own interest plus the fun of the thing itself.
Deng Tao wants to run a modern cultural enterprise, regardless of its size, but it pays more attention to growth; Jin Yan is more concerned about how to make the traditional folk art in the north stand up on the commercial stage in Shanghai, and it is straightforward and will never fall down easily.
With the previous experience of doing cross talk in communities and universities, the two have a more intimate thinking about the direction of cross talk in Shanghai. They firmly believe that the traditional model can't attract the Shanghai audience, and the classic jokes can't regain their strong vitality here, so they must have a new look.
They all thought of the "high-end route"-a garden with a closed style, a large number of original or adapted new jokes, and more importantly, a modern management system. "You must never take a variety class."
"Shanghai definitely needs cross talk, and there are too many, especially the stressed' white-collar' groups. Everyone is eager to drive away depression with laughter. What we are considering is how to make a' smile product' suitable for the Shanghai market. " Deng Tao's optimistic expectation for the development of Shanghai crosstalk has never wavered.
Living in Shanghai, with Shanghai characteristics, the new crosstalk products adapted to the Shanghai market exude "Shanghai flavor"
Find a garden with cross talk in the city center.
In the spring of 2009, Deng Tao was very busy. To be a decent "Shanghai crosstalk troupe" is not as simple as talking about it. Deng Tao and Jin Yan are looking for venues and manpower respectively. Building a "nest" can attract a "phoenix", although Deng Tao wants to attract not a "phoenix", but a variety of witty and flexible comic dialogue geeks.
Unexpectedly, in such a big Shanghai, it is too difficult to find a garden suitable for cross talk. Deng Tao searched the Internet, asked his friends, and even turned over the map to look for the past one by one, but his hopes were doused again and again-either the venue size was inappropriate, the geographical location was too remote, or the rent was too high. More often, the theater manager is not interested in this unheard of "cross talk hall".
Just when Deng Tao was exhausted, Gao Bowen, a well-known pingtan actor in Shanghai who had known each other for a long time, heard good news: the Haoxiangyin Bookstore of Shanghai Pingtan Group on Nanjing West Road was being renovated at that time. After the transformation, playing pingtan during the day will be empty at night.
Nanjing West Road, a small theater with 200 people, is surrounded by office buildings where "white-collar workers" gather, and the subway station of Line 2 is at the door ... The garden closest to Deng Tao's perfect site selection scheme just fell from the sky.
Talk about projects, talk about funds, talk about progress ... After several negotiations between you and me, the Shanghai Pingtan Group opened the door to the crosstalk hall. Two traditional folk arts, one south and one north, started cross-border cooperation in this unprecedented way.
Just like a new Shanghainese bought a newly-built house with a good location, the "floating heart" of Deng Tao and Jin Yan settled here.
North Lord and "Local tyrant Xiao Wang"
The garden problem has been solved, but the actor problem is more difficult.
When the new garden opens, you have to invite the old master to sit in it. Jin Yan invited Guo Dequan from Tianjin, who is not a relative of Degang Guo, but also a famous person in Tianjin crosstalk circle. As partners, Jin Yan Douju and Guo Dequan laid the first and most important cornerstone for the opening of the Crosstalk Hall.
However, in the view of Deng Tao and Jin Yan, this is not the most ideal design. They are more willing to present a modern and localized "Shanghai-style cross talk" than to move the traditional jokes from the north to Xiangyin Bookstore. But it was just a concept at that time, which needed practice and exploration.
To this end, they began to tailor crosstalk products with Shanghai characteristics for Shanghai native Zhang He who met at the "Shanghai Crosstalk Conference" and successfully transformed from the audience.
"What should Shanghai crosstalk look like? We have been thinking about it, but one thing is certain. It must come from life in Shanghai. If you have Shanghai characteristics, you can learn from burlesque, but you must maintain the performance form of cross talk. " Deng Tao hopes that Shanghai actors will exude the expected "Shanghai flavor" when they take the stage.
Zhang Hongyu, born in 1982, has been obsessed with cross talk since childhood. As early as when he was a student, when he stared at the test paper in a daze, he thought, "If only there were a cross talk garden. Every weekend, you can eat melon seeds, drink tea and listen to cross talk, and then you can go up and talk a few paragraphs."
Although he is naturally calm and restrained in appearance, his proficiency in Mandarin with a slight Beijing accent and his expertise in various local dialects in Shanghai have made him a "local tyrant king" with many fans.
It's hard to imagine that Zhang is a state-owned enterprise cadre under the stage, and cross talk occupies almost all his spare time. Zhou Haiming, his age, is an avid crosstalk enthusiast. For the sake of cross talk, he is almost willing to give up everything he can. But anyone who has a little research on crosstalk will question the innate conditions of his language expression, especially his high pitch and unclear articulation. Zhou Haiming himself knows very well that hobby and performance are two completely different concepts. As an IT person, he resolutely abandoned the title of an engineer with a good salary at that time, and took the stage wholeheartedly with the determination to cross the rubicon.
20 12 10 On Zhou Haiming's 30th birthday, the Crosstalk Society held a special performance for him, and this square-headed and pretentious cross talk lover finally embarked on a career path.
There is also a northern master who has to be mentioned-Sun. At the age of 68, he greatly raised the average age of the crosstalk hall. "An ancient family is like a treasure", he appeared in the middle of every performance of the club, giving the audience a few minutes to "ponder" the Shandong dialect and the art of sketching.
A few decades ago, Sun was an actor in Aauto Quicker. Today, it is no exaggeration to say that he is the only Shandong sketch actor who has performed more than 100 times throughout the year.
In 2007, Sun met and waited for a group of young folk artists in the "After-school Quyi Photography Report" published in Wen Wei Po. Since then, Sun has ushered in the second spring on the rap stage.
Fat and thin partner and "returnees" combination
The problem of lack of actors is far from being solved.
Guo Dequan just came to Shanghai to help out, and he will return to Tianjin sooner or later. Jin Yan's long-term partner has to be found; Both Zhang Hongmao and Zhou Haiming should find suitable partners; A normal crosstalk team needs at least four or five pairs of fixed partners. Even if you use the Tian Ji horse racing style, it won't take long.
Deng Tao and Jin Yan continue to find a way. Since we intend to be a modern crosstalk enterprise, we should have a "systematic strategic deployment of talents". First of all, we should find a partner suitable for long-term cooperation with Jin Yan; Secondly, we should find young actors with characteristics and cultivate new forces.
At that time, thousands of miles away in Beijing, Li Guojing, a young man from Shandong who was practicing Allegro, never thought that he would cross the Yellow River and the Yangtze River to Shanghai, not to mention that there was a square meter of open space waiting for him on the new stage in Shanghai.
In 2009, Li Guojing, who just won the first prize of Beijing Allegro Competition, also performed Allegro in the Art Troupe. Although he likes singing Allegro best, he often plays "Tree" or "Erhu" on the stage.
Li Lishan, the judge of Beijing Allegro Competition, is Jin Yan's master. He has been considering finding a good partner for his apprentice.
One afternoon in the summer of 2009, several phone calls from Li Lishan linked the chubby Jin Yan in Shanghai with the thin and long Li Guojing in Beijing.
After more than ten hours' train ride, Li Guojing came to Shanghai and stood on the stage of Xiangyin Bookstore that night. Although he has never been a comedian, his accumulation in the art troupe and the foundation of Allegro soon yielded results.
This combination of one fat, one thin, one short and one tall has since begun the journey of building a "golden partner after 80" in Shanghai phonograph industry.
After these non-professional actors took to the stage, they actually got unexpected "laughter". At that time, most of the audience sitting under the stage were fresh "white-collar workers" in nearby office buildings, and the "former white-collar workers" on the stage understood the audience's thoughts and tastes better.
More interestingly, a few good young talents emerged from the audience, which became the new generation of the guild hall in the future, that is, the "talent echelon" that Deng Tao and Yan Jing longed for.
Qi Yuanyuan is a returnee from Canada, majoring in French. After graduating in 2009, he just returned to Shanghai. He happened to watch a performance in the guild hall, so he "delivered it to the door" and did field work for more than half a year. Later, I stood beside Zhang. Nowadays, this pair of "pure Shanghai" partners can often bring Shanghai-style works with strong local interest.
A long hair and a full face of beard is the image of Qi Yuanyuan when she was studying in Canada. It is hard to imagine that young people who are somewhat "false mothers", who can sing "uneasy" and are good at imitating "holding sisters" once swayed like this.
In order to get on the stage, Qi Yuanyuan shaved off her beard and long hair, and even gave up her job as a professional French teacher, just to stand in front of the microphone and hear the laughter from the audience.
Li Juanyi, who also returned from studying in Canada, majored in business administration. When he was a teenager, Li Juanyi had the experience of "pilgrimage" cross talk-when he was in high school, he heard that the old man Ma had a performance. He excitedly took some money from his parents and went to Beijing alone. During his study abroad, listening to cross talk jokes on the Internet was his greatest pleasure.
Nowadays, Li Juanyi's English cross talk has become a major feature of the guild hall, and it is also a "Chinese-western hot pot" that causes white-collar workers to laugh.
Many new gadgets have been added to the classic framework.
Date: 20 12-02-08 Author: Source: Wen Wei Po
Look at the characteristics of the Shanghai market: the audience is more concerned about whether many new gadgets have been added to the classic framework.
Greatly changed the traditional cross talk.
A group of "post-80s" in Pinhuan Crosstalk Hall are idealists. In their view, contemporary cross talk is in a period of calm struggle and can make a difference. In their eyes, Shanghai's performance consumer market has huge opportunities, only wrong products, no market that can't be fired.
"Happiness is getting less and less, and people are getting farther and farther." Deng Tao is more willing to try to make crosstalk works "just around the corner", and Jin Yan also understands that traditional crosstalk is not suitable for Shanghai audiences.
Putting aside all professional shackles, they put on a new mask of cross talk.
"Academics will question that this is not a cross talk, and some colleagues will accuse it of trampling on tradition. We don't agree with this. We have to explain it in serious words-traditional art must keep up with the times. " Deng Tao is very determined and has another understanding of Quyi, which he has studied for more than ten years. "In modern cities, cross talk should be a decompression tool and a happy opening show. The loudness and frequency of laughter in the audience will always be the ultimate criterion for judging the quality of cross talk on the stage. "
To this end, the guild hall has made a drastic transformation of traditional crosstalk, adding various new gadgets aimed at young people-the traditional joke "Big Bodyguard" has become "Stars", "Yellow Crane Tower" has become "Master and Loyalty in Killing the Three Kingdoms", "Eight Major Changes" has become "Crosstalk Empire" and "Learning Radio" has become "Best Radio" and "Best Radio".
Newly created local works can make people smile just by looking at their names-Anime Criticism, Digital Fear, I am a House Slave, Journey to the West, Idiot Travel Notes, Nine to Five in Shanghai, I Love Night Shop, and Comic Book Breaking into Jing 'an. ...
These works not only retain the classic framework of traditional works, but also inherit the basic lessons of speaking, learning and joking, adding news events, social hotspots and interesting things in life, which is exactly what they expected:
In the work "People on the Road", Jin Yan teased the famous tourist island-
"Eight dishes and one soup, and finally a big dish is served, which is called' Raptors Crossing the River'-a big bowl of clear water with an onion floating on it";
"Your meal fee is 5700 yuan after the discount. 38 yuan a kilo? No, it's an ounce of 38 yuan ...
Zhang, the "local tyrant and little heavenly king", has shown a nonsense misunderstanding of dialects-
The doctor said to the patient (Shanghainese) who had a urine test, "Take the test tube to the toilet to urinate."
Patient (northern dialect): "Laugh into the toilet?"
Doctor: "Yes, I told you to go to the small one. Go to the small one quickly."
The patient "laughed" in the toilet for a long time, and the doctor went over and said, "haven't you come out yet?"
Patient: "I can't laugh!" " "
The doctor pointed to the test tube: "Nong, it should be small here!" " "
The patient picked up the test tube and laughed at it.
The local work "Say Shanghai" repackaged the place name of Shencheng-
Grandma doesn't have a hearing aid-she's not deaf (Mei Long); Grandpa just installed dentures-new clothes (Xinzhuang); Silent-Jing 'an; Silent, silent, silent, silent-Jing 'an Fourth Temple ...
For the ordinary audience who spend money on music, the jokes in life can resonate more, but not many people study the structure and origin of the works. This is Deng Tao's "Shanghai market characteristics". "This joke is not the same as the audience in the north. People prefer to go straight. The' baggage' doesn't have to be wrapped in three layers. Everyone cares more about freshness, fun or' strong'. "
The newly-built cross talk live theater was packed.
A group of young people began to seek what people often call "leap and transformation".
"Although it is not really bigger and stronger, it is always good to be steady and brave." Since 20 10, Deng Tao and Jin Yan have developed a new product-crosstalk sitcom.
Although there are many similar funny dramas in the drama market and Beiyuan, it is not what they want.
20 10, 10 In February, when chatting, Deng Tao and Jin Yan rearranged and adapted the three existing "cross talks" in the guild hall, namely, the King of the Golden Temple, the Lucky Empress Dowager Cixi and Princess Zhu Huan, adding more plots, and launched a film called "Crosstalk with hilarious laughter".
All the staff of the guild hall went into battle together, set up costumes, makeup and scenery, and expanded cross talk into "jokes" in the form of stage plays. The first attempt, there will inevitably be flaws and flaws, but it also won full applause as scheduled. Since then, a number of crosstalk sitcoms have been born in the Crosstalk Society-In Spring, New menstruation Series, Naked Marriage, Youth Standing, Step by Step Sniper. ...
In Spring is a nostalgic sitcom with a continuous performance of 12, which is called "a masterpiece of perfect combination of cross talk and stage". Wearing Jin Yan's No.1 old suit outside, wearing blue nostalgic sportswear inside, pushing a bicycle with "five bars" on its arm, and hanging a cardboard beside it, which read "Woodworking, drilling, painting and pasting" on the stage for more than two hours, the Art Sea Theatre has been laughing.
Management, operation and promotion are "meticulous" step by step.
"Laughter" is indeed the key to the cross talk enterprise they want to do, but it is also unambiguous in management operation and public relations promotion. "Half a cup of rotten tea", a famous crosstalk lover who praised Deyun Society before Degang Guo became famous, commented in Pinhuan Crosstalk Hall: "As a place where a group of crosstalk people gather, it actually has an office in the downtown creative park! There is a clean and tidy background, which can meet the health inspection! Have a decent work system! Actually, all the staff went to the island to collect creative materials while slaughtering! "
On the Weibo of the Crosstalk Hall, the number of fans has exceeded1.2000. Before and after each performance, before and after the release of ticket information, everyone will chat with fans online, and the guild hall will even take seriously the related Weibo sent by every audience, forwarding comments one by one, almost without missing a word.
The top priority of a performance organization, in addition to the program, is naturally ticketing. As a private cultural company, from the initial booking on Taobao to the ticketing company's agent and winning the ticket, the previously unknown crosstalk club really surprised the industry.
In 20 12, in addition to 150 small theater performances, the guild hall will also hold nearly 50 crosstalk performances and stage plays in large theaters such as Yihai, Lan Xin and Oriental Art Center. In April, the national tour will also be launched, and Shanghai Crosstalk will reach audiences in Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Changsha and Taipei directly.
In the face of this increasingly prosperous cross talk business, Deng Tao is not "hot-headed", just as he did not hesitate to invest more. "Lost, a few boys also be played once; Fire is also worthy of the words' Shanghai Crosstalk'. " Starry Night Crosstalk Society was established in Beijing on June 20 10, and was founded by He He, a former actor of Deyun Society. Performed in the "Beijing Night" Cultural City, with a strong lineup, including former actors of Deyun Society, Shi, a cross talk predecessor.
Related reports: The newly formed "He Li" large-scale crosstalk troupe has attracted a large number of powerful actors to join, which can be described as a great integration of phonology. This performance is based on the "traditional-extreme" style they have been pursuing, and features rare cross talk clips. Mr. Shi, our tutor, served as the on-site conductor, aiming to dedicate a delicate and gorgeous performance to Beijing.
This performance chose the "Beijing Night", the most royal luxury venue in Beijing, which has always been known as "mystery" next to Jinbao Street on the East Second Ring Road.
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