The second encounter of this story originates from an afternoon with the sound of cicadas.
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During the summer vacation, the new fantasy work of an international famous director will be released simultaneously around the world. As early as two months ago, domestic film distributors recruited Chinese dubbing teams in the industry. Tan Yiming led his "Blockbuster Studio". After several rounds of auditions, he finally won this big order.
With this kind of S+ masterpiece, the non-disclosure agreement in both Chinese and English alone signed more than 30 pages, and there are dozens of supplementary clauses.
When Tan Yiming signed the contract, he joked with the assistant around him, saying that the father of the gold master might as well invent a pen-type forgetting machine, just like the one in "Men in Black", press it, and the white light flashes, making everyone Forget about the light, and solve the problem of leaks from the root cause.
Who would have thought that the little assistant who just turned 20 would ask, "What is "Men in Black"?"
"..." Tan Yiming said, "it's a generation gap."
In order to speed up the review, the dubbing of the film was reserved for only three days.
The film release party was extra cautious, and all the samples were black masked, leaving only a blank circle around the actor's mouth.
When the on-screen actor opens his mouth, the off-screen voice actor also opens his mouth synchronously. In addition, the plot, scenes, characters' expressions and actions, props... I don't know anything about it.
This tm is not testing their dubbing ability at all, it is clearly testing their imagination...
Tan Yiming has a gorgeous voice, and is particularly good at playing that romantic and uninhibited role. The character has a lot of monologues, and the technical terms are very difficult to speak, and he is also the voice acting director... In the past three days, he hardly slept.
After the final soundtrack was handed over to the filmmaker, Tan Yiming collapsed in the lounge from exhaustion and slept for a full twenty hours.
When I woke up again, it was the next afternoon.
He wanted to continue working, but the assistant rolled his eyes and pushed him out of the office.
"Brother Ming! You have to combine work and rest!!"
There are not many members in their studio, plus the two-dimensional attributes are strong, and there is no very clear concept of superiors and subordinates, so even a small assistant dares to "roar" his boss.
Tan Yiming is a hard worker, so he asked: "If I don't work, what will our company pay for the next quarter's rent?"
The office address of their company was chosen in a small alley that was quiet in the middle of the noise. The small courtyard with two entrances, green tile houses, gray brick walls, winding paths leading to seclusion, warm in winter and cool in summer. No matter which Party A is a guest, it must be praised as "tasteful".
Of course, the rent is also very "tasteful".
On the porch lay a languid large lizard, longer than an arm and a waist thicker than an arm. Free-range, with only a long chain about the thickness of a toothpick tied to his ankle, is the mascot of their studio.
Tan Yiming put the big lizard into his arms, rubbed its cool body, and called his son son.
The big lizard is extraordinarily honest, its two front paws hooked on the front of his shirt, its chin rests on his shoulders, and a pair of icy vertical pupils fell into the void. Has the stance of a divine lizard.
Tan Yiming asked his son, "Go, Dabao, accompany dad to the recording studio!"
I thought that the lizard would not pay attention to him, but the eldest son suddenly opened his mouth, stretched out his long tongue, hooked the tip of his tongue, and actually took off the small button on his collar!
Tan Yiming was taken aback by it - the bite force of a lizard is tens of kilograms. This time, his son showed mercy and did not leave him a "true love kiss", which was considered filial piety.
The little assistant hurriedly said, "Brother Ming, you see Dabao has asked you to rest quickly."
Tan Yiming had no choice but to withdraw from the recording studio.
Suddenly idle, talking, workaholic, Ming, wandering around in the office for a while doing nothing, really don't know what to do.
Some people despised him: "Brother Ming, I long ago told you to talk to someone, but you said that you want to find someone who can be your baby lizard's stepmother... Which lady has such a special 'taste'? Look, now you are looking for someone I can't find you to spend time with you."
Tan Yiming said slyly: "Who said I don't have a young lady? Diaochan, Zhaojun, Da Xiaoqiao, when I regain the King's Canyon, I will make her four concubines, six concubines and eight nobles..."
"Where's the queen? Who is the queen for?"
Tan Yiming patted the big lizard in his arms and said with a smile, "It depends on what my son means. Whoever it likes will be able to monopolize the holy favor, the harem of Yanguan!"
Everyone: "… "
To be honest, they feel that they can't find someone to talk to the boss in this life...
The assistant girl took out a ticket from nowhere, and said in disgust, "Brother Ming, if you really have nothing to do, why not go to the drama?"
"What drama?" Tan Yiming lacked interest, "Drama?"
"No." The assistant shook the ticket in front of him, "Seven o'clock in the evening, Shanhe Theater, "Queen of Boots" - musical."
It was a very crudely designed ticket, and the cutout was full of zigzags. It is estimated that the designer would only use Meitu Xiuxiu.
Tickets are printed on flyer paper that can be seen everywhere on the street, and the names of the plays and seats are all handwritten. However, the font is elegant and handsome, and it penetrates the back of the paper. At first glance, it is from the hands of a boy.
The ticket was stamped with a dark red seal, and the handwriting was blurred.
Tan Yiming carefully identified it for a long time, barely able to read the small characters on it: Internal gift tickets, not to be resold, only for learning and exchange.
Tan Yiming held the "ticket" with oil on the edges, raised his eyebrows and asked, "...Where did this come from?"
The assistant replied: "There is a small tenant in my house who is studying at the dance academy in this city... I listened to it, and it seemed that a few students had saved up a musical, and they had turned over a foreign work. Without copyright, they secretly arranged it by themselves. Just kidding. They borrowed the stage of this Shanhe Theater, and they didn’t dare to publicize it, so they could only get a bunch of tickets to send to relatives, friends, neighbors…”
Tan Yiming has never watched a musical. The only thing he knows about a musical is the "Sound of Music" that everyone is familiar with.
He wanted to refuse, but for some reason, he took the ticket and said, "If I have time, I will go."
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Shanhe Theater, the name sounds domineering, but the official website clearly reads - "The boss and the proprietress, one from Shanxi and one from Hebei, so it is named Shanhe Theater".
Tan Yiming happened to meet the evening rush hour when he went out, and he turned around, and finally arrived before the musical.
Shanhe Theater has a long history and is a well-known "small theater" in the industry.
The word "small theater" not only refers to the small size of the venue and the small number of spectators that can be accommodated. Another meaning of it refers to the dramatic expression of "independence, avant-garde, rebellion, and avant-garde".
The domestic small theater activities originated in the early 1980s. As a supplement and branch to the mainstream theater form, there are not too many rules and regulations.
Tan Yiming thought about it, but he didn't know the background of those students, but he was able to convince the boss of Shanhe Theater to lend the stage to these poor students for free.
There are three halls in Shanhe Theater, the smallest hall can only accommodate 100 people.
But now, the small hall of 100 people is not full... and looking around, most of the audience is a pair of green faces, about 20 years old, and it seems that students are coming to cheer.
Chat on the left, chat on the right. When the girls get together, they can change three topics in one minute.
Tan Yiming is handsome and personable, and he dresses maturely without appearing to be philistine or greasy. Sitting among the group of little sparrows, he felt that he stood out like a shining fluorescent jellyfish, attracting countless eyes.
Noticing that the girl beside him was peeking at him, Tan Yiming turned his head generously and said hi to her with a smile.
The little girl was startled, and hurriedly turned around, sat up straight, and chatted stiffly with her best friend beside her.
Tan Yiming pricked up his ears, listened to it with interest for a while, and learned a lot of useful information.
They said that the performers on stage today were senior students from the Musical Theatre Department of the Hwaseong Dance Academy. Huacheng Dance Academy is the leading professional dance academy in China, and this school is also the first university to offer a major in musical theatre.
Today, the "Queen of Boots" they turned over has won two top awards in the musical theater industry since it was staged on Broadway in 2013. There are two protagonists in the story, one is Xiaokai, a shoe factory on the verge of bankruptcy, and the other is a sexy and enchanting nightclub queen. The person who plays the queen of the nightclub is the monitor of the musical department, with a good image and good temperament, with a height of 1.78 meters and a leg length of 1.85 meters.
Tan Yiming: "...???" Wait, is there a problem with this computing power?
He really couldn't hold back, and started talking to them: "Excuse me, how did this squad leader have legs that are taller than people?"
"This is a description! A description!" The little girl blushed and said, "What's wrong with the longer legs of the good-looking people?"
Tan Yiming was amused, thinking that these little girls are really funny. However, I would also like to thank them for their hard work in publicity. Tan Yiming would like to see with his own eyes how dazzling the legendary squad leader with long legs will be on the stage.
At seven o'clock, the curtain was drawn on time.
Tan Yiming hurriedly discarded his distracting thoughts and tried his best to focus on the stage.
The first act is simple.
The male protagonist is the heir to a handmade shoe factory. He doesn't want to be stuck in the countryside, so he went to live in a big city and started a new life there. One day, he received a call from his relatives. His father passed away, leaving only a shoe factory with heavy debts and unsalable products.
The male protagonist doesn't know how to bring this small shoe factory back to life, and just when he was troubled, he helped a nightclub queen who just got off the night shift in a late night "hero saves the beauty".
The nightclub queen, sexy and tall, wears a pair of over-the-knee leather boots, wrapped in a trench coat that just goes past the hip, and the makeup is exaggerated, which is unforgettable.
"Nice to meet you." The nightclub queen gently opened her lips, her eyebrows seemed to have small hooks, "I'm Lola."
From the moment the queen came on stage, there was a faint voice of discussion from the audience.
There is no other reason - the "Queen of Boots" Lola in the play is actually a man! Although the actor's facial features are exquisite and beautiful, and at first glance, he is indeed somewhat neutral, but his bulging Adam's apple and penetrating tenor all indicate his true gender.
Transvestites, shemales, drag queens... These discussions with discriminatory words resounded in every corner of the theater.
As if the excitement wasn't enough, along with the fast-paced background music, the eighteen side lights on the stage were lit at the same time, dazzlingly dazzling.
In the midst of the lights, the actor suddenly tossed his jacket, revealing a short sequin skirt tightly wrapped around him! ! !
The short skirt was narrow and small, and the breasts were filled with prosthetic breasts, expressing a deep cleavage. And the boots under his feet are ten centimeters high with a slender heel. If someone else wears them, it may be difficult to even walk.
But the young people on the stage danced enchantingly, and their long legs were extremely flexible. Accompanied by two dancing angels, he sometimes tossed and jumped, and he was as dexterous as a sexy cat, a jumping deer, or a proud swan...
Throughout the show, almost all of the dance scenes focus on him... no, it's "she".
With such a high-intensity exercise, the two angels who danced for him on the stage were out of breath, but the queen of boots has a very stable breath, and her voice is high-pitched and moving, and there is not even a trace of out of tune! !
Gradually, the discussion under the stage became less and less, and in the end, everyone was brought into the play by his singing and dancing.
He is Lola, he is a drag queen, he is using every piece of his body to show his confidence and beauty!
And in a corner under the stage, Tan Yiming frowned and looked at the stage, his eyes closely following the dazzling figure.
… the tone of the lines… the strength of the vocals…
Tan Yiming swears that this is the first time he has walked into a theater to listen to a musical.
But as a professional commercial voice actor, his ears will never deceive him - where is he, he has heard this voice!
The author has something to say: CP in this article, with a sexy voice, a great commercial dubbing master vs a musical actor with a super soft body and a super beautiful voice.
This is an article about reunion, about secret love coming true, and about growing up. A little sour and a little sweet.
This article is different from my previous style, thank you very much for reading.
PS: All the characters in this article have no prototypes, but all the musicals exist in reality. If you are interested in the dramas in them, welcome to the theater to watch~~