[Rebirth] King of Theater

At the beginning of the second act, the scene is quite warm.

In the caravan, the kind-hearted Ursus gave some food to the abandoned children, and made some rice soup to feed the poor babies.

The well-meaning wandering entertainer was once rated as 'a thinking waste' by the author in the novel.

The thing about being thoughtful is that even though he looks crazy, he is actually very good at thinking and has a philosopher's style.For example, when facing two helpless children, he not only offered sympathy and help, but also couldn't help thinking about 'why did such a tragedy happen'?As for the word 'waste', it means that although he has thought about some profound issues, he is weak and has no ability to resist, and he has no way to change those unfortunate things.

However, in this musical, Al did not follow the script, but weakened the character's 'waste' side and highlighted his ideological nature instead.

In his script, although this character can't really change anything, in a sense, he is a wise man, the spiritual mentor of the hero, and an indispensable thinker in human development.Therefore, in the play, although this character does exist and participates in the whole story, there will be a sense of detachment from the story.He can understand the darkness of the world, and ridicule the mistakes in society; he can also say what the audience wants to say, and build a bridge for the audience to connect closely with the show.

Considering the difficulty of interpretation, the role was finally handed over to Randy's father Matt.

Don't get me wrong, I don't choose people based on relationships.

Matt, who used to be the lead singer of a rock band, already has extraordinary singing skills. Moreover, the excessive smoking and drinking in his early years just added a hoarse texture to his voice, which is in line with Ursus' age and age. identity; and his passing career after he got old gave him a sense of desperation, but because of his unreliable character, although this person is despondent, he is also desolate in a different way, from time to time When some naive plots appeared, he naturally carried a meaningless temperament after seeing through the world.

With such unique innate conditions, Matt is very handy in playing this role. He looks sloppy and crazy on the outside, but gives people a kind of inner world.

As soon as he appeared on the stage, he sang an ordinary song with overwhelming momentum.

In this song, Ursus couldn't figure out [who is responsible for this], so he asked himself in the song, who made the children homeless?Who killed a mother, and who caused this mother to abandon her child, leaving her dead in the wilderness?Is it night?Is it winter?Is it the wind?Is it heavy snow?Or... people?

It was just some questions, but under the super performance of Matt, an emotional player, these questions are like boulders hitting every audience hard, shocking and making people think...

During the rehearsal, no one in the crew could have imagined that this scene would have the performance it has today. This is completely an actor's self-expression and breakthrough, but faced with such a situation, not only did the experienced band not make any mistakes, but also broke out. With a huge sound, they seem to be together with Ursus, loudly questioning this dark world—who should be responsible for this?who?

It wasn't until the song was sung that the mood on the scene eased up again.

At this time, Ursus stopped singing, and faced the abandoned child again, with a caring expression, but before the words of concern came out, the expression turned into doubt, he was puzzled and hesitant. Ask: "What are you laughing at?"

"I didn't laugh." Antonio, who played the role of the young Gwynplaine, replied childishly.

"You are obviously smiling, stop laughing!" Ursus said angrily.

"I really didn't laugh." The young child justified aggrievedly.

So Ursus took a lamp and shone it on the boy's face, and the gaffer cast the brightest light since the play began.

The music stopped, and there was silence in the performance hall, and a needle could be heard.

All eyes were on the child's face—God!

[What is the Laughing Man? ]

[Cut the mouth all the way to the ears, pick off the gum to expose the teeth, from now on, you will always be smiling. ]

There are many people in the auditorium who have read the original work of "The Laughing Man", but no matter how the text describes it, it is not as touching as the scene deliberately shown on the stage-the childhood Gwynplaine should have a picture of He has a beautiful face like an angel, but the man-made 'smiling' wound makes him now, with half an angel face and half a devil face, beauty and ugliness are integrated into one, and the whole face presents a split-like weirdness.

Looking at such a strange face, Ursus showed a deep sadness on his face.

He felt sorry for this child with a tragic fate, and didn't want to go any further. He turned to take care of the baby with the same tragic fate. Then, he stopped all his movements again: "Ah, he is blind."

The curtain fell slowly.

The band conductor and choir took the lead, and they sang a song lamenting fate in unison, buying time for the actors who went down to change costumes and the staff who were changing props and backgrounds.

The audience also took this opportunity to relax a little.

After all, in the previous performances, whether it was the shameless child traffickers, or the abandoned and hurt children, none of them were happy plots.

However, this interval was not long, and the curtain was drawn again soon.

This time, the lights are different from the blurry and dimness of the first scene, but brighter like daytime, and the music is even more lively and brisk, and even the air seems to be filled with people's laughter...

Ursus reappears in his caravan.

He looks much older, but he still has a smile on his face. As soon as he appeared on the stage, he briefly explained his current situation to the audience. In the blink of an eye, 15 years have passed, and his two adopted children have grown up .

That's when Randy's adult Gwynplaine lifts the curtain of the caravan and steps out.

Wearing a short coat and wide trousers that symbolize his status as a poor man, and covering half of his terrifying face with a piece of black cloth, he stood on the stage in the play, looking a little shy and at a loss.

You know, Ursus was a traveling entertainer.

Therefore, after adopting two children, he still led the children to perform as a performer to survive.When the children grow up, they will naturally join in the work of performing arts.

Therefore, the scene in front of me is the model of a play within a play.

The audience watched "The Laughing Man" in the theater, and in the story of the Laughing Man, the audience played by the actors also appeared on the stage, eagerly looking forward to the Laughing Man's performance.

What kind of show is this?

Ursus put on a black bear skin, played the role of a bear, and took his domesticated wolf (claimed to be a dog to the outside world), and rushed towards Gwynplaine fiercely.

Gwynplaine plays the man who is attacked by the beast.

He was crushed to the ground by the wild beasts, his hair was disheveled, his clothes were bitten, he was dying, crying for help, his throat was rattling, as if he was going to die at any moment.

The audience played by the actors laughed loudly below.

They applauded this miserable but curious scene!

At this time, a faint singing voice sounded, and the voice gradually became louder...

The blind girl Tia wore a long white dress and silver jewelry, she looked like a goddess of light, she appeared mysteriously from the darkness, and walked slowly under the care of the dazzling lights.

There was a commotion in the auditorium, and a child who came to watch the show with his parents couldn't help pointing at the stage: "Mom, it's so beautiful."

The beauty of the blind girl Tia is sacred, pure and gentle.

In her singing, Gwynplaine broke away from the beast's bite.

He half-kneeled in the darkness, and stretched out his hands towards the goddess of light.

The goddess caressed his head and sang soothing songs...

Light meets darkness, and Gwynplaine sang in response.

The singing skills of the male and female leading actors are online, and the whole song is performed tenderly and sweetly, which is intoxicating.

The aloof goddess seemed to have fallen in love with a mortal. At this moment, the beast had surrendered and the darkness was dispelled. The light gradually extended from the goddess to Gwynplaine, slowly illuminating his face—— When he was fighting the beast, the cloth used to cover half of his face had fallen off.Under the light, there is a 'smiling' face.

When the audience on the stage saw this face, they all froze, and then broke out into extremely warm laughter and applause.

Haha what a surprise ending!

A goddess!A monster!

Brutal and simple performances somehow become blockbuster successes; crippled and eccentric smileys are surprisingly popular!

Ursus took off the bear skin, and took Gwynplaine and the blind girl Tia to call off the curtain with the audience.

The scene is lively and lively, and the music is also full of joy.

The audience on stage kept cheering the Laughing Man's name.

They also swarmed up, lifted up the monster with a strange smiling face, and walked back and forth on the stage in circles, in order to show that "The Laughing Man's performance shocked the people of the city", and from then on, he will be famous far and wide .

However, in the face of this 'laughing' scene, the audience off the stage, the real audience, really couldn't laugh.

In the face of such a peculiar plot, they couldn't help but have deep doubts about this era: "Why would anyone like to watch such a freak show?" Can you figure it out? What's the point of making fun of the disabled?" "Such a ridiculous scene shouldn't exist in the world!"

The curtain fell quickly, and the stage scene changed rapidly again.

No greetings at all, no time for the audience to react, everything has taken on a new look, the scene on the stage is completely different from the bustling bazaar of the common people just now, presenting a scene of luxury and extravagance .

This time there are three main characters - Her Majesty Queen Anne, Princess Josiana and Sir David.

Sir David was the young illegitimate son of Sir CronCharlie.

However, Sir Croncharli opposed the monarchy and supported the republic, and was exiled to the wilderness by the king 800 years ago.According to legend, when he was exiled later, he also married a wife and had children in a serious manner, but his wife died early.

The Duchess Johanna is also an illegitimate child, and the difference from Sir David is that her father is the king.

With a king's father, even if he is an illegitimate child, his status seems to become much nobler.So, she was born as a princess.Moreover, the king will help her plan her future life, for example, help her find a good fiancé.

Coincidentally, Sir David, as an illegitimate son, is trying to legally inherit the title, power and privileges left by Sir CronCharlie...

The king agreed, but he took the opportunity to put forward the prerequisite that he must marry his illegitimate daughter, Princess Josiana, as his wife in the future.

What a wise decision!

What a wonderful marriage!

It really kills two birds with one stone!

On the one hand, her illegitimate daughter has a home, and she can share the rights of knighthood with her husband in the future; on the other hand, it also allows a rebellious and republican family to change its banner and become surrounded by the royal family.

This is a happy scene.

As for love?

Princess Josiana was so charming (beautiful woman on top, water snake on bottom) that Sir David would have liked to have slept with her.

On stage, the actor playing Sir David sang a swinger-like flirtatious song just for it.While introducing his life of eating, drinking and having fun, he expresses his erotic imagination for his fiancée - the feeling of possessing you is like flying to a celestial body (before he failed to possess his fiancée, he didn’t mind flying for other lovers from time to time ).

On the other hand, the proud, self-confessed and affectated princess is quite useful for this.

But she is restless in her bones, she wants to be unrestrained, wants to indulge in pleasure, and always longs for extraordinary things to happen!

In this way, even if a fiancé who has been engaged since childhood, even if she doesn't hate her now, she will still feel bored after a long time.

Therefore, she also has to stand on the stage to perform well and show her true thoughts to the audience.

This scene is very attractive.

When such a beautiful, sexy, evil and arrogant woman stood on the stage, singing and dancing about her inner desires in an almost slutty posture, the temperature of the whole theater rose.

Her backup dancers are also very sensual. Several shirtless male dancers are constantly surrounding her, sometimes pretending to approach her, and sometimes putting their hands on her body. But the ambiguous body movements seem to be a kind of emotional concretization and a wonderful presentation of the inner world.

Outside the stage, Director Costa stood in the left corner behind the scenes, carefully observing the performance on the stage with concern.

When he saw this, he couldn't help but turned his head and sighed to Al: "No wonder you have to change people. Leaving aside the singing, this kind of stage performance is indeed better than this Miss Chris."

Because of this incident, Al, who was entangled in all kinds of threats and lures by the actress named Shanny, and whose privacy was exposed, couldn't help but grimace, and complained a few times with a bitter face: "Dear friend, I have already Having said that, I can swear to God, but if I have selfish intentions, I will die badly. But at that time, there were always some people who were suspicious and thought I was talking nonsense. Well, now the truth is revealed, and anyone with a discerning eye can see You can see that, that Miss Shanny, pretending to be a princess, has a lot of debauchery, but what about her arrogance? She can't even suppress the aura of a few backup dancers, how can I give her the role?"

Director Costa nodded repeatedly.

But at this time, he was busy watching the performance, and he only comforted Al a few words before turning his attention back to the stage.

At this time, the performance of the unmarried couple was over.

Next, it's Her Majesty Queen Anne's turn.

Although the marriage contract of the fiancée is a combination that is in line with the interests of all parties, the queen always has willful power.

After the death of the king, Princess Josiana's half-sister, Queen Anne, came to power, and she was dissatisfied with such a marriage from the bottom of her heart.

This pair of half-sisters seems to be at odds with each other.

Because although Queen Anne was a legitimate child, her mother's background was relatively ordinary (when she married, the other party's identity was not a king); and although Princess Josiana was an illegitimate child, her mother happened to be of noble origin.

In this way, Princess Josiana has a lot of confidence. In private, she feels that her blood is more noble than the queen.

No one dared to say this in person, but everyone knew about it, so the Queen was naturally unhappy.

In addition, the Queen hates (envies) the Duchess two things:

Josiana was born beautiful;

Josiana's fiancé, Sir David, was also beautiful.

For these reasons, Queen Anne's singing is full of malicious emotions.

She sang [I want her to fall] darkly, and at this time, her appearance and her tone are like a cobra standing upright and attacking - fierce and unscrupulous, spraying wildly towards the audience venom.

Many audience members looked away uncomfortably, not daring to look at the aggressive actress.

But soon,

Her singing ended, the music returned to ease, and three characters with different thoughts appeared on the stage together.The unmarried couple pretended to be loving each other, the queen and the princess pretended to be sisters, and the three were enjoying themselves happily.

In the audience, Mrs. Jones couldn't help but let out a deep breath: "This plot is really a poison for people! Poison! Dear, look, how unfair this world is, Ursus, Ge Wen Pulan and Tia are so kind, but their fates are rough and miserable; Sir David, Princess Josiana and Queen Anne are so hypocritical and shameless, but they just enjoy the glory, wealth and power..."

Her husband, Senator Gary Jones, looked at his wife's devotion and resentment, and couldn't help smiling: "Some people say that literary works should not always complain about illnesses, but should bring something to people." Yes. Obviously, this is it! Learn from the lessons of history and prevent similar tragic stories from recurring in the world, isn’t that what every viewer should work hard for in the future?”