A top superstar who started as a composer

Chapter 119 Buying Tickets
After posting Weibo, within a minute, there were already tens of thousands of comments below.

"Onlookers, must be onlookers!"

"Your Highness, I'm finally waiting for you!"

"Is The Phantom of the Opera finally going to be performed?"

"Buy a ticket, you must buy a ticket!"

"When will the tickets go on sale, I'll set an alarm clock!"

"..."

Seeing that many people said they would buy tickets, Yu Hai felt relieved.At least for the premiere, there shouldn't be too few audiences.

It can't be blamed on Yu Hai's lack of confidence in his own appeal.

On the one hand, he has no specific concept of his commercial value.

In addition, the ticket price of musical theater is not cheap.

The National Grand Theater in Kyoto can probably seat nearly 5000 people.For the first performance, the National Center for the Performing Arts set the ticket price for "The Phantom of the Opera" from [-] to [-].

This price is already the highest for domestic musicals.

But obviously, this is not affordable for ordinary students.

And after the premiere, about a week later, the video version should be released. If you are just curious about this musical, you can watch the video version at that time.

Therefore, for fans who are not musicals, if you are just curious about "The Phantom of the Opera", there is no need to buy a ticket to watch it.Just wait for the video version to air.

Hopefully half of the tickets will be sold by then!

Yu Hai thought so.

Many people in the industry are also concerned about the sales of tickets.

The musical Whale Falling has been attracting wide attention since its preparation, and it can be regarded as an out-of-circle work in another sense.

Whether the musical can attract wide-scale attention or not depends on the quality of the show.

Many people in the circle are more worried.

Compared with musicals, it is rare to have such attention nowadays. If the quality of Jingluo's works is not good, it will easily make the audience lose confidence in this art form, and the blow will be fatal at that time.

Some people even think that Whale Fall should not be so high-profile, at least after a round of audience testing, if the market accepts it well, it will be safer to use it to promote it vigorously.

The water that has been allocated will not be diverted because of these people's ideas.

On June 6th, at eight o'clock in the morning.It's time for tickets for the musical "The Phantom of the Opera" to go on sale.

Even with Whale Fall's popularity, the tickets won't be very easy to sell, right?
There are people in the musical theater circle discussing this with friends.

Then, he opened the largest ticketing website in Huaxia, planning to buy a ticket himself to have a look.

After a while, the page was still blank.

what happened?The person clicked to refresh the webpage, but it still didn't come out. After a while, the system displayed a line of small words: The webpage has crashed.

What the hell?

Why did the page crash all of a sudden?
Seeing such information, many people who were planning to buy tickets like him were stunned.

Many people began to wonder if it was a problem with their own network.

After some checks, the network was fine and other pages could be accessed, but this ticketing website crashed.

The chain is dropped at a critical moment!

Many people have never used this website before and don't know the situation, so they can only ask the customer service depressed.

After a while, the Weibo of the ticketing website finally updated an apology statement:
Because the website at eight o'clock in the morning had too many visits, the webpage crashed, and it is currently being repaired urgently...

Everyone: "..."

What's the situation?
The page crashed because of too many visits. How many people have to open this page at the same time for this to happen?
Many people have question marks over their heads.

are you kidding me?
Is the server quality of the current ticketing website so poor?

Do you know the alarm I set for grabbing tickets?
Amidst a lot of complaints, the programmers of the ticketing system started to repair it in sweat.

They also feel like a dog.

Early in the morning, before it was time to go to work, I received a series of fatal calls from the boss.The first time I received the call was a black question mark.

Web page crashes?How can it be?As far as their ticketing software is concerned, the number of daily visits basically does not fluctuate too much. How could it crash the webpage?
And with their server, there were a few kings and queens holding concerts before, and they started promoting early, and the fans snatched up all the tickets within a few minutes. How could it crash?
Flying to the company, I opened the background data and looked at it. At eight o'clock in the morning, the number of visits in an instant almost reached tens of millions.

This... Several heavenly kings and queens held concerts at the same time and released tickets, so there might not necessarily be such a traffic volume, right?
After asking each other, it's not a concert, but tickets for The Phantom of the Opera that Whale Falls are on sale.

Everyone was speechless at this moment.

For a musical, there are only a few thousand tickets at most, but more than a thousand times as many people come to grab them.

This is too exaggerated.

Those who can grab a ticket, the probability of winning the lottery should not be low!

Under the helpless expressions of several engineers, after a while, the page was finally restored, and many people put down their complaints about the server of the ticketing website and prepared to continue buying a ticket for "The Phantom of the Opera".

Unexpectedly, as soon as the page was refreshed, the remaining votes were zero.

Fuck, no tickets?

Didn't you say that there are [-] tickets?
Why is there no one?
Is there something wrong with the system of this ticketing website?

Some people are not reconciled and ask the customer service directly.

If there is a problem, fix it as soon as possible, and don't delay my ticket purchase!
Then after a while, the ticketing website's Weibo posted another message: Tickets for "The Phantom of the Opera" are sold out.

In order to improve the credibility, they sent screenshots of the background data.The data clearly shows that there is only one second between the opening of the ticket sales channel and the sale of tickets.

Fuck, these beasts!
No wonder ticketing sites are hacked to the brim.

How many people have to buy tickets to have such a record!

Didn't it mean that musicals are very small and no one watches them?

What is the second light?
People in the musical circle feel that their three views have been subverted.Many people who were not optimistic before feel that they have been slapped in the face.

Some said indignantly: "Are these people crazy?"

His friend replied to him: "Don't you also want to watch the musical Whale Fall?"

The man was dumb.

His fans, not counting Whale Fall, wanted to grab a ticket out of curiosity, let alone Whale Fall's tens of millions of fans.

He was a little depressed: "I really want to watch a musical."

The friend smiled: "Everyone thinks so."

When watching a musical, you must go to the scene to feel it.

This is the unanimous thought of many people, so naturally many people buy tickets.

It's a pity that the number of votes is too small, and there are very few people who can grab it.

Supply and demand are far from balanced, causing many people to be full of enthusiasm and unable to vent.

So, many people who didn't buy tickets went to Yu Hai's Weibo to complain:
"Where are the tickets?"

"Where did my big ticket go?"

"Are you octopuses? Hands are so fast?"

"I didn't buy it, e(┬┬﹏┬┬)3"

"When and where is the second performance? Next time I will definitely grab it!"

"..."

The first show hasn't started yet, some people are already urging the second show, can you believe it?

Professionals engaged in musical theater are simply dumbfounded by this appeal.

This is not in line with the laws of the market!
So, a new question from Mouhu was raised:
Does Whale Fall's "Phantom of the Opera" tickets show that the spring of domestic musicals is coming?
In this regard, the netizen "I'll ask who else" gave a very incisive answer:
laxative.

First of all, I am not an afterthought. I have said before that the tickets for the musical Whale Fall are absolutely not worrying about selling.

Before, I often saw people on the Internet analyzing that the tickets for Jingluo's "Phantom of the Opera" would be unsalable. The reason is that this is the first time Jingluo has learned a musical. The quality is unknown, and most people will wait and see.

Let me just ask here, what was your first reaction when you first heard that Whale Fall was writing a musical?
The first thought in my mind was, buy a ticket.

This should be everyone's first thought.

Curiosity is one of them. The most important thing is that all the music released before Whale Fall is of top quality, and you will never get tired of listening to it.So we are confident in the music of Whale Fall, which is the word of mouth accumulated by Whale Fall.

Returning to the question itself, the popularity of "The Phantom of the Opera" does not mean that the art form of musicals will also be popular.

Because the fundamental reason why everyone buys tickets is because of this person, not because of the musical.

Whether "Phantom of the Opera" can become a turning point for musicals to gradually become popular depends on the quality of "Phantom of the Opera" itself.

If the quality is good, people may naturally become interested in other musicals, which is normal.

All in all, Whale Fall has opened a door to the musical theater market with its own appeal.

Visitors pass through this door and will walk in curiously to have a look.But if the quality of the musical falls, the audience's aroused interest will quickly wear off.

Therefore, the sold out of tickets for "The Phantom of the Opera" does not mean that the spring of musicals has come, it just gives an opportunity.

Whether you can grasp it depends on the practitioners of the musical.

that's all.

In any case, the popularity of "Phantom of the Opera" has grown a little because of the fact that the tickets sold out in seconds.

However, [-] copies are indeed too few, and most people are in a state of unsatisfied desires. For this reason, netizens have also made a lot of show operations.

For example, because of the real-name system for tickets, and because the scalpers did not prepare early, the idea of ​​buying high-priced tickets could not be realized.

It is true that there is nowhere to spend money.

Some people want others to transfer it, so they started a topic: Is it worth buying a ticket for a musical with 1000 yuan?
Netizens left a variety of messages:

"It's not worth it! It's a waste of money, so if you have a ticket, remember to transfer it quickly. You can contact me!"

"Did Mom and Dad's hard work make you waste it like this? Sell it quickly! Just sell it to me!"

"The musical is really not good, it's too boring. If you have a ticket, you can contact me. I want to hypnotize it!"

"It is recommended to contact me if you have a ticket. I have nothing else, but I have a lot of money, and the price can be negotiated!"

"..."

Unfortunately, most people fail to do so.

Although musical theater tickets can be transferred, the procedures are cumbersome, and most people who grab tickets basically don't care about the price.

Helpless, unsatisfied netizens can only hope that the video version will be broadcast as soon as possible.

For Yu Hai, it is also very happy to see the tickets in seconds.

After all, he really put a lot of thought into it, and made it serious. If the tickets can't be sold, it will be too embarrassing.

As for the extras, he didn't have the energy to take care of them.For example, under his Weibo, fans who asked for tickets or tickets for the second show, Sapodroll, he would ignore them.

As the premiere of "The Phantom of the Opera" approached, he also got a little busy.

Although most of the work is done by the director.But he also needs to stay in the theater, not for anything else, to avoid many people who want to cooperate with him and ask him for tickets.

In his WeChat private message, a bunch of people asked him for tickets.What makes him speechless is that he doesn't know who many people are here, and when he joined the micro chat.

But he can only pretend that he is very busy and has no time to pay attention to these people.

Of course, those who are close to him, such as Lin Wenze and Tang Lin, have tickets for them.

The National Center for the Performing Arts itself is so big, and the seats are limited. If everyone in his circle of friends gave it, then there would be no need to sell tickets. These people, plus the friends of the actors and staff, would directly fill up.

So the entire crew, except for Yu Hai who took a few tickets, no one else gave any more tickets.

The time is like this: the sea seems to be busy, but in fact, after a few days of fishing, April [-]st comes in a blink of an eye.

(End of this chapter)