The job Yao Yin mentioned was dubbing the role of "Extreme Day".
Tan Yiming had heard Xiang Guai talk about this musical before, but he never thought that he would actually have the opportunity to participate in this work.
With such a good opportunity in front of him, Tan Yiming never thought of rejecting it!
Early the next morning, Tan Yiming and Xiang Guai appeared in the rehearsal hall of the theater together. The director, screenwriter, and producer sat in a row and interviewed Tan Yiming on the spot.
To be honest, if it wasn't for Xiang Guai and Yao Yin's strong recommendation, the director team would not have considered letting the voice of "Extreme Day" be dubbed by a male voice at all.
Tan Yiming stayed up all night the night before and read the original novel and the adapted script. Because of the rush, he only wrote more than a thousand words in the biography, but it was enough to reflect his intentions.
Tan Yiming's resume is very beautiful, he has played countless works, and his personal characteristics are distinct, and he has his own subwoofer. The director asked him to read a few lines on the spot, whether it was gentle, arrogant, cold or thoughtful, he could handle it.
Xiang Chai volunteered and said that he wanted to play a part with Tan Yiming.
What he chose was a plot in the script, when the male protagonist heard the voice of "Extreme Day" for the first time.
There was a messy bed in the center of the rehearsal hall. The boy slept in close clothes, frowning slightly, and he slept unsteadily. He bounced his body from time to time, like a highly nervous little animal.
Suddenly, a voice came from a distance.
Ethereal and void, but at the same time thick and solid. It's amazing how so many diametrically opposed adjectives can be combined with just one voice.
"—If I were you, I wouldn't stay indoors in such fine weather, I would spend my time on the moon."
The boy woke up from his dream, he suddenly sat up from the bed and looked around, lowered his head in doubt, and lay down again.
"—Don't sleep, the stars are waiting for you."
The boy finally woke up this time, he got out of bed barefoot, pushed open the "door", and stepped out cautiously.
He was clearly in the bright rehearsal hall, but the boy looked around in surprise, but it was enough to convince all the audience that he crossed the boundaries of time and space and came under a starry sky.
"Who are you?" the boy asked the sky aloud with his hands folded together, "Are you the moon? Are you a star? Are you the cloud in the sky or the wind passing by my ear?"
The voice did not answer the boy's question.
The voice slowly, like a gentle stream of water passing through everyone's ears. He read Alfred D'Souza's poem and seemed to be talking to the boy in that poem.
"—Sing as if no one's listening. Dance like no one appreciates it. Love as much as you've never been hurt. Enjoy life as if the end is coming."
So, under the guidance of that voice, the boy started dancing and singing under the stars for the first time.
…
This is a very stream-of-consciousness work. The original novel is full of speculation about human nature and self, and the adapted script also follows this mystery.
To be honest, when Tan Yiming read the script the night before, he didn't understand a lot of things. At that time, he still seemed to ask for help from Guai, hoping that Xiang Gu would give him a little help and help him understand.
But Xiang Guai rejected him embarrassedly, saying that everyone's understanding of this work is different, and if he told Tan Yiming the answer directly, it would stifle his thinking.
Tan Yiming could only come to the interview site with a bewildered stomach.
However, when Tan Yiming saw Xiang Chai's dance and heard Xiang Chai's singing, the thick fog that had gathered in front of his eyes suddenly disappeared.
In the play, the boy named the hallucination in his head "Extreme Day", which symbolizes the never-setting sun. But the boy didn't know that the extreme day was himself, and he himself was the sunshine. The polar day he was waiting for was actually on him all the time.
…
This is not the first time Tan Yiming has watched Guai dance, nor is it the first time he has heard Guai sing. But this time, it was completely different from the past. Xiang Guai was right in front of him, right in front of him.
Tan Yiming was replaced by Xiang Chai in the play. He guided the boy like a kind and wise man, and criticized the boy like a serious elder... He and he were interdependent and inseparable.
This scene was very long, and when Xiang Guai finished his performance, a thin layer of sweat was covering his forehead.
Tan Yiming rushed to the courier to put a towel to wipe his sweat.
Xiang Guai didn't care about the towel, but firstly looked expectantly at the teachers present.
The director, producer, and screenwriter exchanged opinions in low voices, looking at the expressions on their faces, it seemed that they had reached a consensus.
After a while, the director spoke first: "Xiao Xiang, Xiao Tan, the two of you have a good understanding, have you worked together before?"
The two spoke at the same time.
Xiang Guess: "No."
Tan Yiming: "Yes!"
Xiang Guess is at a loss: "... When did we cooperate?"
Tan Yiming reminded him: "Five years ago, the singing party on the night of the New Year's Eve."
Xiang Guess remembered it as soon as he was reminded. He said embarrassedly: "That's okay..."
Tan Yiming felt that he was really a little conscientious guy: "Why not? I still keep the recordings from that time."
Obviously at the interview site, the two fought over the past five years ago.
The director interrupted them: "I just praised you two for having a tacit understanding. I want to quarrel with you and leave it to quarrel outside."
Xiang Gu showed a shy and flattering smile after making a mistake, and was embarrassed to talk again.
The producer is twice as old as Xiang Gu, looking at him is like looking at his own child, speaking for him: "Young man, it's good to be fully engaged on stage and slapstick offstage. Originally, the relationship between the hero and Jiri in this show is like two magnets attracting each other, which is better than choosing two strangers who have no communication under the stage."
As soon as his words came out, the matter was basically settled!
Tan Yiming didn't understand anything, so he hurriedly bowed and thanked: "Thank you a few teachers for giving me this opportunity, I will work hard!"
"Don't thank us." The screenwriter laughed. "If you want to thank yourself, thank yourself. Now you can impress us with your voice, and when you are on stage, you will also impress the audience with your voice."
Tan Yiming has been with many dramas before, but there is still a difference between "matching" and "acting". Fortunately, this show doesn't require him to show his face on stage, just keep standing behind the scenes and speak up.
"That's right." The director suddenly asked, "The tour has to run everywhere, can you go out of town with the crew?"
Tan Yiming was stunned and said embarrassedly: "I am a dubbing actor, and I also have a dubbing company under my name. It is not convenient to leave Huacheng for a long time."
"It's easy to handle." The producer interjected, "The tour only requires the first or last show in each city to let the small talk pass, and the other shows will be recorded and broadcast directly, and a sound engineer will be arranged to cooperate with Xiang Guai in the background. "
The director pondered for a while: "Well... that's okay. The effect of recording and broadcasting is definitely not as good as that of live reading."
The producer said: "But recording and broadcasting saves money! Actors are paid per show. How much is the cost of recording and broadcasting?"
Everyone present nodded in agreement.
Only Tan Yiming froze in place, and it took a lot of strength to control the haunting and let his expression collapse.
Although he had long heard that the production funds for musicals were limited, and a penny had to be split into two petals, it was really rare to be so meticulous about it...
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"Waiting for an Extreme Day" premiered at the end of January. The online and offline promotion started as early as December. Hwaseong is the base camp of the crew, and the premiere was set at the Shanhe Theater.
This play is an extremely rare one-man show, for which Shanhe Theater has been specially modified.
One of the halls, which was large enough to accommodate 300 people, was changed to a "four-sided stage" - the actors stood on the stage in the center, and four sets of terraces surrounded the stage. A group of stands can seat 80 people and can accommodate a total of 320 spectators.
The day before the premiere, the entire theater stayed up late and was refitted. After the lighting engineer and sound engineer adjusted the equipment, they couldn’t bear to go home and sleep.
The entire theater was empty, except for a large lamp at the top of the hall, leaving a trace of light.
Suddenly—the door of the theater was pushed open.
The two figures held hands and slowly stepped into the theater.
"Look." Xiang Gu's eyes chased the light and said softly, "It's the stage."
Tan Yiming followed his line of sight.
Men have never seen such a stage before. The whole theater is like the Colosseum in ancient Rome. The stage in the middle is very low, and the audience seats around it are very high.
The audience will watch the actor's performance from a top-down perspective, as if God is examining a life.
Holding hands, the two stepped onto the stage.
The overhead light was bright, and it fell to the ground in a large, warm yellow halo. The two stood in the circle of light and looked around.
Tan Yiming didn't know how to describe the feeling at this moment - although the surroundings were empty now, when he thought that in ten hours, there would be 320 pairs of eyes looking down on the stage, he felt his heart beating extraordinarily fast.
The stage is small, less than 20 square meters, but several scenes were squeezed out. Xiang Guai will keep wandering between these scenes. He plays 12 roles by himself, changes clothes five times on the stage, and sings 15 songs and reads more than 10,000 lines in two hours. … there cannot be one mistake.
Tan Yiming asked Xiang Guai: "Guess are you nervous?"
"I'm not nervous." Xiang Cai shook his head, "Because I'm not alone on this stage."
Tan Yiming: "That's right, the live band is not far from you, you can see it when you look up."
"No, I'm not referring to them."
Xiang Guai looked at his lover with soft eyes.
The boy said, "I mean you."
The man was startled.
Xiang Gu said, "Just like the male lead has Ji Rong, I also have your company, don't I?"
All they could see was darkness, only the two of them were in the light.
Xiang Gu threw himself into Tan Yiming's arms and leaned his head on his shoulder.
The whole hall was quiet, only the two heartbeats were so clear.
Gradually, the heartbeats overlapped, as if they had been one since the beginning of time.
The man's voice fell on Xiang Gu's ear, and a warm wind blew through his hair between his breaths.
"Guess," Tan Yiming said solemnly, "I believe that in the future, you will step on a bigger stage, have more audiences, and appear in more well-known plays... And I will be by your side just like today. ."
"-it is good."
The little swan has been flying alone for so long, and now, he has finally returned home.
-End of bottom-
The author has something to say: here, the lower part has come to an end.
Next is the part of [curtain call] and [behind the scenes].
In [Curtain Call], all the supporting characters in the text will appear. Cen Manchuan, Qi Ji, Chen Ziran, and many others whose names you may not remember but who contributed key plots in this novel will all come out to say goodbye to everyone one by one.
The [behind the scenes] part is about the old talk and guessing cookies. If the text is not sweet enough, the tidbits will be filled!