Dress to be a celebrity

Song Zhuangyuan is a newcomer in the Imperial Academy, and he is a key training object that is highly valued by the scholars. He is not as leisurely as unemployed people like Zhao Yueshu, so this kind of spare time activities must be done during the holidays, and there may not be time after the official work.

So the next morning, he asked his family to hire a big car, and went straight to Zhao's house with gifts for their crew.

Since the actors had to be trained in acting skills, Li Shaosheng couldn't take them out to make money these days. The couple struggled with this group of people.Song Shigang won the naming right of this play, and pointed out that it will still be so popular in 600 years that it will be performed by others. Naturally, he has to do something that the title sponsor should do——

For example, raising this crew.

He asked someone to prepare two stones of Beijing rice, one bite of neatly slaughtered pig in soup, two bites of soup sheep, two pieces of Jinhua ham, several strips of bacon, a pair of wind chickens, five yellow croakers from Tianjin, and a basket of dried croakers. Seaweed, a box of golden hook dried sea rice, a pack of Fuju cake, a pack of white sugar, honey cut from a whole honeycomb, two catties of official salt...the ruts were three points deep, and I turned outside Zhao Yueshujia Lane After walking around, everyone thought they were here to deliver New Year's goods.

But where can there be new year's goods for May Festival?

When Zhao Yueshu heard that someone came to bring him a large cart of food, he was a little baffled.They are three months away from Jingzu in Fujian, and the food they want to bring to him at home is not delivered in summer. Aren't they afraid that the road will be hot and moldy?

He changed into the big clothes that looked good, and went out to take a look—the first thing he saw was a cart full of food, and the second thing he saw was the person who brought the food.

He's really handsome, with a very vulgar attitude, he definitely didn't look at the halo that the car and food gave him first!

Zhao Yueshu greeted him excitedly and called "Brother Song", gratefully but embarrassedly said: "You have spent a lot of energy to help us revise the manuscript, so it's good to accept your things for nothing."

Song Shi smiled slightly: "Didn't that new play bear my name? That's my business. I should give some food to these performers. What are you talking about?"

He entered the courtyard with Zhao Shusheng, Mr. Deng and Li Shaosheng heard his identity, so they also came out to greet him.Song Shi met with them, and first gave Zhao and Deng the two drafts he had typed overnight, and then asked Li Shaosheng: "Your family's team hasn't gone out today, right? Let them rest for two days, and I will see it myself. They're rehearsing a new play."

The two comic dialogues he wrote are still crosstalk in essence, so the way of performance has to be changed.

In the early years of "Dispute", he had arranged a cross talk drama, and he could act according to the plot in his memory, but "The Bodyguard" was only performed in the form of cross talk, so he had to teach these zaju actors to do cross talk from scratch.

Li Shaosheng nodded quickly: "I have never gone, I have never gone, the troupe has to practice kung fu every morning, and they also have to prepare their clothes and put on makeup. Song Zhuangyuan came very early, and they are still practicing kung fu."

It just so happens that I haven't even put on makeup yet, so it's easy to see my aptitude.

Song Shi didn't even bother to drink tea, so he asked Li Shaosheng to take him to watch the people in their team practice.Zhao Yueshu also stood up and said: "Since Brother Song wants to read it, I will accompany you too. Let Deng Xiandi take this manuscript first."

Mr. Deng is a hired screenwriter, not as free as the boss, so he can only watch them leave, and go back to work alone with a new draft.

Zhao and Li led the way and took Song Shi to a small courtyard at the back, where they saw a group of boys who hadn't put on their make-up.

This kind of domestic opera troupe is divided into male and female troupes. In Dream of Red Mansions, there is a female troupe. Commander Pan’s family raises a male troupe. They are all delicate, tender, and gender-neutral young people carefully selected by the master.This group of male actors has a wide range of operas, but their prospects after not singing are not as good as those of the female class-girls can still be little maids if they don’t sing, but these men cannot enter the backyard, and because they are raised more than their daughters when singing. Delicate, can't do long-term follow-up and management activities, so it's not so easy to arrange.

This is also one of the reasons why Pan ordered Ken to sell them at a low price.

Li Shaosheng pointed at these people and said: "In the two plays that Song Zhuangyuan is going to rehearse, most of them need to use the sub-finals, so I will call the class who are used to acting in miscellaneous dramas to ask Zhuangyuan for advice."

Those entertainers who practiced their body and sang their voices heard the words "Song Zhuangyuan", immediately put down their efforts, and turned to the gate of the courtyard in unison, wanting to see what the Wenquxing of Lianzhong Sanyuan was like.

When Song Shi saw so many people looking at him, he subconsciously waved his hands. The group of young people blushed with nervousness, and bowed in reply: "I've met Song Zhuangyuan, please be the champion!"

Song Zhuangyuan almost yelled "Pingshen", but fortunately he realized in time that this was not an ancient costume drama, so he finally didn't say the words that hurt his image, he retracted his hand, and nodded with his hands behind his back in a reserved manner.

Li Shaosheng took up the important task of the eunuch for him, and called everyone to get up.

But being able to see the number one scholar and having him wave his hand, these little artists were satisfied, and each of them put on the most figure-defining postures, standing in place timidly, wishing to be spotted by the number one scholar, and sooner or later they would rise to the sky.

It's a pity that this number one scholar is as cold as iron, as long as he doesn't have to write a thesis, he never pretends to talk to the delicate young man.

Not only did he not fall in love with them, he even secretly made negative comments on the figures and appearance of these beautiful boys - they are too beautiful, have no sense of comedy, and are not people who can talk about cross talk!

I don't know which one is usually "pretending to be lonely" as an official, but seeing that these people are not tall, they have to wear thick-soled boots on stage. The two protagonists Ding Wenyuan and Wang Decheng in "Dispute"... can only rely on post-production makeup processing.

Song Shi was a person who did what he said, so he immediately asked Zhao and Li: "Is there a stage in the house to rehearse the whole play? I only saw them perform in the car before. It's very suitable, I want to see their positions and actions on the serious stage."

Although Da Zheng Chao didn't have the coquettish word "moving position", both Zhao and Li can understand it, so there is no need to explain it.The two asked the children to go back to change their makeup, and then invited Song Shi into an empty room in the backyard—cloth curtains were hung facing each other in the room, and there were false doors on the left and right, which were similar to the layout on a modern opera stage.

Song Shi asked for chalk first, and according to the stage performance area map he read from the paper yesterday: first drew two diagonal lines extending to the wall on the ground in front of the stage, and then drew a few steps ahead of the intersection point and the intersection point Draw circles at the center of the four lines at the four corners.These five circles are the most suitable positions for actors to stand after they appear on stage.

Today's Zaju originated from the Song and Jin Dynasties and took shape only two or three hundred years ago.Although many scientific models have been summarized, it is the first one in the Song Dynasty to hold 300 years of experience and scientifically standardize it to directly draw pictures on the ground.

Not to mention Zhao Shusheng, even the teenagers who had studied opera in Pan's house since childhood were stunned, and they hid behind the door and whispered that Song Shi was a master of zaju and well-informed.

It’s not that I’m well-informed, I’ve even watched Peking Opera and cross talk!

Song Shi looked back at the young actors, and asked Director Li: "Which one is Deputy Mo and which is Vice Jing? I want to arrange a new miscellaneous show, and I only need one Deputy Mo to play jokes, one Deputy Jing to make Qiao, and the other At the end, it should also be used as an introduction, and after the opening, it will only be used to tell other people's stories, telling stories while acting, and making people laugh with Vice-Jing."

Let's start with "The Big Bodyguard". There are few big bodyguards and it's easy to act. In the dispute, there is an extra senior brother Huan playing!

Now he is not only the biggest figure among the prototypes of Zaju characters, but also has the status of an investor. He has a higher status in this family, and no one rises up to resist and accuse him of destroying the Zaju program.

Li Shaosheng hastily called two white and tender young men who were only [-] or [-] years old, and introduced them to Song Shi: a Xiao Yulian who sang the end of the vice, and a Fu Zhenzhu who sang the vice-jing, they both sang the white and did the subject All good.

Song Shi was silent for a while after hearing the name.

Dress up.

Deputy Mo wears a cocoon silk gown, dressed as a country landlord, with a little white patch on the nose to pretend to be ugly; Deputy Jing pretends to be an old man, also wears a long gown, with white hair and a white beard, and holds a melon hammer made of leather in his hand to beat him. people.

——In today's funny dramas, a leather hammer is prepared to hit people on the head, similar to the plastic hammer in the famous cross talk "Spitting out a lotus flower", which can not hurt people, but can also make the audience laugh.Although this cross talk can make people laugh without these foreign objects, after all, it can immediately arouse the audience's laughter reflex, so why bother?

The two actors went backstage to change costumes, and Song Shi stood in front of the stage and gave a lecture to Director Li.

These children who sing operas are not very literate, but Director Li is a person who knows the book and the etiquette. He figured out how to act, and then gave the two people speeches and speeches so that they could memorize them.

What Song Shi taught him was Guankou and martial arts.

There are several passages about martial arts in "The Bodyguard". The beginning is about eighteen types of weapons, the latter part is about the characteristics of Liuhe guns, and the second part is about martial arts...all of which are short and small.

The tightness of breath and the speed of speaking must be specially controlled when speaking through the mouth, and it should not be as loose as normal speaking.And it’s best to add action when the sub-end is funny. The better the action, the more watchable it is.They dare not compare this play with mature cross talk 600 years later, let alone with famous actors, but they have to tell a bit of cross talk, not like telling jokes in their own family.

He talked teasingly and flatteringly almost by himself from the beginning to the end, but he was not very proficient in martial arts, so he made do with a few Tai Chi movements as demonstrations.

Although the form of cross talk is quite different from that of Zaju, this cross talk is what Zhao and Li have long wanted to get, and it was made by him, the three yuan. Can afford to pick a fault.

It was hard to stop laughing, Teacher Song had already turned the topic to the pre-play episode "Dispute", dipped his fingertips in water, and wrote on the wall a new custom-made piece that needed to be customized: a long strip for the prisoner to sit on. Chairs, fake handcuffs for handcuffing people, and a small wheelbarrow, so that when I get on stage, I can ask the deputy to push and rub the clean feet.

The background of this story does not use ordinary workers or brothers, but a silk merchant hires two Mihans to go to the countryside to collect silk, and the two take turns pushing a cart.When it was the turn of the vice-clean who was in charge of pushing the cart, because he walked recklessly, the cart tilted, and he ran over the foot of the deputy, and the two began to quarrel.

In addition to these two people, we also need to choose a prudent and upright person to "pretend to be lonely"-that is, to dress up as an official and play the role of Huan Tongpan, the famous Qingtian master in Tingzhou Prefecture!

It doesn't matter that the two protagonists dress up as funny as possible, almost nothing.Huan Tongpan is recognized by their investors, producers, and directors. Can you care less about dressing him up?

Official robes are easy to handle, and you can replace them with those made by Song Shixin.Just make a [-] cm thick powder-soled official boots.Add an invisible heightening pad to the official boots... Anyway, the boots are made of cloth, soft to fit, and the tarsus can be sewn as high as it needs to be. Adding a fifteen-centimeter insole is not too much, right?

Anyway, he just came out to make an appearance and decide the case, and there was no need to fight. The actor wore stilts, no, and the stilts on stage would not affect anything.By the way, the Song Zhuangyuan in the drama also prepared such a set of treasures when he appeared on the stage, right?

He believes that with the physical skills of the artists he saw just now, they can walk steadily and do tricks in wearing them, and they can perform their new play completely and excellently.

Add chicken legs after the performance, the authentic Shandong old soup braised chicken of Deshenglou!

The investor did not hesitate to pressurize and pay, forcing the crew to work overtime with him to rehearse the new play, and finally finished writing the entire "Song Zhuangyuan Yihe Double Couple" before the end of the May Festival, from beginning to end. Rehearsed again.

Although the three leaders and one screenwriter were exhausted as if they were peeling off their skins, it was such an affectionate and touching drama that made people laugh when they talked and laughed, and made people cry when they were touching. I was very excited.

Li Shaosheng wished he could get in the car immediately and perform a performance in the busiest place in the market, but Zhao Shusheng took a look at Song Shi first, and Xiao Yier asked him: "Can Brother Song make our play famous?"

Boss Song, the gold master, smiled faintly: "Why do I need to be famous for this play? As long as we move into the big washroom to perform, with our really good play, some people will definitely want to watch it."

You can also ask for a few less money than other plays for the first few shows, buy some Han to help publicize outside the Washe, give some money to prostitutes in restaurants and restaurants, let them mention a word while singing, and hire painters in advance Draw a few good posters and stick them outside the fence... Marketing methods can be used as much as possible, but it is not good for him, a big hero, to go directly to the Imperial Academy to promote this play.

After all, he invested in this drama, prepared the script himself, and acted as the director to secretly praise himself and his senior brother. If he even appeared shirtless during the publicity, people can't laugh at him behind his back?

It's better to avoid suspicion a little bit and promote the show based on the audience's reputation.

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Research on body language of traditional opera dance Wang Xi