As graduation approached, Xiang Chai suddenly relaxed.
The graduation drama has been rehearsed, and everyone got satisfactory scores. He finished his graduation thesis early and waited for a few days to participate in the defense.
There are only 20 students in a class majoring in musical theatre. According to the questionnaire on their graduation destination, some went to elementary school to become music teachers, some went abroad for further studies, some signed with a brokerage company to prepare for their debut as actors, and some were admitted to civil servants in the yamen in the future. Those who do things... There are only five or six people who decide to stay in the musical theater circle like Xiang Chai.
In a few years, these five or six people may also change careers and do other jobs with more promising and money.
"But I believe that in ten or twenty years from now, monitor, you will still be a musical actor!" A girl swears to God, "Even if everyone else changes careers, you will not change careers!"
Another person answered: "Yeah, Brother Xiang will be a character who will appear in textbooks in 50 years! I've been thinking about how to describe his life in a good book." To promote musicals. He has worked on the stage for decades and contributed countless excellent works. After retirement, he became a behind-the-scenes producer and trained a group of outstanding musical actors for our country… '"
Having said this, all the classmates who were sitting around eating lunch laughed.
But this kind of laugh is not a sarcastic, teasing laugh, but a kind of admiration from the bottom of my heart.
Xiang Guai is obviously their same age, and even looks smaller than the big boys in the class, but his body seems to contain infinite energy, every time he stands on the stage, everyone's eyes will be on him. Involuntarily ran after him.
To be a good musical actor - this is the goal Xiangchai set himself five years ago.
He would sing and dance on stage until he was old, until he could no longer make a good sound, until his feet could no longer support his body.
No one would question Xiangchai's future - even the leaders of the department said that they were waiting ten years for "Mr. Xiangchai, an outstanding graduate, a well-known alumnus, and an outstanding musical actor" to return to the school to hold a speech conference.
Xiang Guai is thin-skinned. He was surrounded by his classmates and praised him. His face was hot, and he quickly changed the subject bluntly: "The head teacher gave me a few tickets for the musical, who are you interested?"
"What drama?"
"The Cat Who Wants to Become Human," the original touring version of the Shiki Theater in Japan."
Although the Four Seasons Troupe has a great reputation, when they heard that this time it was a children's drama, everyone said it was okay.
There are a lot of things to do when graduation is approaching, packing luggage, moving house, looking for a job... At this time, who has the mind to go to the theater to watch a two-hour children's musical
Xiang Cai was helpless: "I have so many votes in my hand. If you don't go, who will I give it to?"
"For your little wolf dog!" his roommate teased, "Just treat it as a date."
Not long after Xiangchai entered school, he was confessed by a girl from another department. When Xiang Chai rejected her, he came out of the closet to cut off the coveting of others.
Fortunately, there are quite a few people who openly disclose their sexual orientation in art schools like them, so he was lucky not to encounter any discriminatory gaze.
More than two months ago, a classmate saw Xiang Chai and Cen Manchuan running hand in hand on the road on campus, and Xiang Chai led her boyfriend over to introduce them to everyone in a low-key manner.
This young couple are talented and handsome, one is a sports school girl, and the other is a musical theater goddess, so they are a perfect match.
Hearing that everyone was cued to Cen Manchuan, Xiang Gu shook his head helplessly: "He can't appreciate the musical, and falls asleep every time he sees it halfway through."
He felt that this sounded a bit blaming the other party. He was afraid of misunderstanding by his classmates, so he hurriedly added: "Actually, I don't blame him. He took me to the ball game before, and I couldn't understand it either. I don't know how to be so excited."
"I feel like I understand it too well!" A girl heard it and slapped her thigh in anger, "My boyfriend insisted on dragging me to watch Guoan play football, but there were audiences beating gongs and drums and shouting slogans, and the support was more than fans of the girl group Neat! I don't know what to see in that thing, I can only play with my mobile phone, and he had a big quarrel with me after the show, saying I didn't respect his hobbies..." She said angrily, "I was so angry Turned him into an ex-boyfriend last week!"
Xiang Guai was taken aback, and quickly asked, "Didn't you two have been talking for several years? Just because of this conflict, you won't break up, right?"
The girl shrugged: "It looks like a contradiction on the surface, but in fact, these problems are gradually accumulating... When the critical value is reached, it explodes with a bang."
No one knows what the straw that broke the camel's back was.
Xiang Gu was silent.
The girl smiled bitterly: "Actually, about the breakup... Both of us have a vague hunch. You see, this is about to graduate. I am going to graduate school and he is working. Even if we don't break up now, the difference between our life situations will become bigger and bigger in the future. , will definitely break up by then.”
It is said that the graduation season is the season of breaking up. How many of the sweet couples who used to be in school can always enter the palace of marriage
In particular, when one person is about to step into the society and endure the warm and cold discussions, the other person has to stay in the ivory tower and read with peace of mind... The common language will become less and less.
The girl is sensitive, and her eyes are red as she speaks: "Actually, the common language contains too many things, ranging from hobbies to life planning. He wants to graduate and get married, and I feel that I am still young; I want to work hard to regenerate my career first. Son, he wants me to go to graduate school and give birth... The road in life is too long, if you want to climb the peaks east, he wants to hitch a ride west... In the end, both of you will hit your head and blood. "
Talking about this heavy topic, no amount of good mood is gone.
After the lunch meeting ended, Xiang Guai looked at the tickets in his hand, and finally decided to call Cen Manchuan.
No one is in a relationship to break up - Xiang Guai hopes to work hard and cultivate more tacit understanding with Cen Manchuan, and does not want this relationship to fall into a swamp.
Fortunately, Cen Manchuan would never let him down.
His golden retriever picked up the phone as quickly as possible, and through the airwaves, Xiang Gu could imagine how fast his tail was wagging.
"Guess!" Cen Manchuan said, "What's the matter with calling me?"
Xiang Guai: "I have a few tickets for the musical, do you want to watch it?"
"Okay! No problem!" Cen Manchuan agreed without even asking for the date. He couldn't remember how many times he slept with Xiang Guai while watching the musical before, "By the way, how many tickets do you have? Can you invite some friends to watch it together?"
"There are quite a lot of tickets..." Xiang Guai reminded him, "But this musical is positioned as a children's drama, and the plot is a bit naive. Are you sure your friends will like to watch it?"
"Definitely like it!" Cen Manchuan said confidently, "their idiots are quite naive!"
"… "
So it was settled.
…
This time, Japan's Shiki Theater is on tour in China. Like Takarazuka, it is a well-known stage company in Asia. It integrates production, rehearsal, and artist management, and is a behemoth with a long history.
"Cat Who Wants to Become Human" is adapted from the fairy tale of the same name by the Japanese crew. Since it was staged in 1979, it has been performed for more than 2,000 times in the past 40 years.
On the day of the performance, Xiang Chai arrived at the entrance of the theater early and waited. At seven o'clock, Cen Manchuan arrived on time.
And behind Cen Manchuan, there stood seven tall boys, the minimum height of 1.85 meters, and the muscles on their bodies were more terrifying than the other.
Xiang Guai, who was only 1.78 meters tall, was in the forest of giants and fell into a long silence.
Because it's a children's drama, all the in and out are children who are held by their parents.
Some of the little beans were less than the thighs of the "giants", and their necks were twisted one hundred and twenty degrees, looking at the big brothers in surprise.
Xiang Guess was embarrassed to death. The giants were also embarrassed to death.
Only Cen Manchuan was born without knowing how to write the word embarrassing.
"Guess!" He waved his hand enthusiastically, "I'm here to introduce you, these are my brothers, they all want to see you very much!! This is Mao Quan, who practices long-distance running, you can call him thighs; It's Gao Xing, who practices high jump, you can call him Lao Gao..."
Xiang Guess understood.
Dareqing is a group of "normal people" who form a group to see him as a "pervert".
… It was only at this time that Xiang Guai realized that he also held a grudge.
Xiang Gui took the initiative to reach out to them: "Hello, I always heard Manchuan mention your brothers, it's a pleasure to meet you."
But his hand hung in the air for more than ten seconds, and the giants looked at me and I looked at you, before Mao Quan reached out his hand cautiously, shook his fingertips quickly, and retracted his hand.
Xiang Guess: "… "
Cen Manchuan was not blind, so he immediately frowned and asked, "What's the matter with you guys? Xiang Guai doesn't have any infectious diseases, and he shakes hands like this."
"No..." Mao Quan scratched his head, although he was tall, his face was very young, with a reckless innocence, "Isn't this a 'friend's wife', we can't take advantage of your partner."
Xiang Gu felt a little uncomfortable.
He wanted to tell them that he was of the same gender as them—there was no such thing as avoidance.
But to guess, forget it. He is in love with Cen Manchuan, not with Cen Manchuan's brothers, they can do whatever they like.
After handing out the tickets to Guai, nine big boys lined up to check the tickets and walked into the theater.
Their average altitude is too high and too conspicuous, attracting a lot of attention when they enter the field, and buzzing when they are seated.
The sports teenagers had no choice but to bite the bullet and nail it to the chair.
Cen Manchuan wanted to add Xiang Guai into his circle of friends too much. He knew how his friends talked about Xiang Guai behind their backs, so he tried his best to create an opportunity to integrate the two parties and show them what Xiang Guai had. how excellent.
Unfortunately, he chose the wrong method.
Soon, the interior lights dimmed, and the curtain opened—the musical began.
"Cat Who Wants to Be Human" is a fairy tale about the adventures of a kitten.
The cat begged the magician to turn himself into a human, and started an exploration in the world. The cat has met many people and things of all kinds, he has witnessed the joys and sorrows, he has encountered troubles, and he has also gained a lot of happiness.
Because this play is for children, the performances of the actors on stage are exaggerated. Sitting on the ground crying for a while, belly laughing for a while, all the movements are open and close, and the male lead who plays the cat is jumping up and down, non-stop. Lighting, soundtrack, costume color matching... One by one is more "noisy".
The children watched with relish, but the big friends who broke into the scene by mistake had their scalps numb.
Ten minutes into the opening, Mao Quan said, "That... I'll go to the toilet."
Then Maoquan never came back.
Another ten minutes later, Gao Xing said, "That... I'll go have a cigarette."
Then Gao Xing never came back.
Immediately afterwards, the others came up with excuses such as answering the phone, buying drinks, looking for something from the teacher, etc., and slipped out of the theater one by one.
Then none came back.
Are you angry with Guai? Xiang Guai is not angry, Xiang Guai is calm.
Noble swans will never have the same knowledge as those uncivilized gibbons.
All he needs is his golden retriever boyfriend.
- The next second, Cen Manchuan yawned, tilted his head, and fell on Xiang Gu's shoulder.
Xiang Guess: I'm elegant, I'm not angry :)