Wasting money while heavy music can not telling story

On one hand, large musicals such as "The Broken Bridge" "Hear Erquan sing", "Time to sing for country come" perform at the same time and the other hand "looking for love" and other small adaptation musicals are intending to perform 160 shows. Some people wonder that it is a presage of domestic musical to gradually begin to establish their own voice and spirit. However, in the musical development forum of SSIMF, what the evaluation was: "still a toddler", who occasionally proudly "take two steps" but still rickety and instable.

Status: foreign monks give better sermons

There are many famous European and American musical such as "Les Miserable” “Cats” “Phantom of the Opera" "Notre Dame de Paris" "Mamma Mia" while few people can remember "domestic" musicals. The dean of the musical drama department of UK Royal Academy of Music Musical Bjorn Duobulaer said that it seems hard to please Chinese audiences, "They're very fond of “Cats" and “Phantom of the Opera", but they did not like local musicals at all. In a Chinese proverb,'foreign monks give better sermons'."
    The classical musical veteran who produced "Phantom of the Opera," "Les Miserables", "Miss Saigon" said: "we can not blame the audience for not loving our work. Because what the audience sees are western top works while local production is still in infancy. "

Strategy:  "trace" firstly and create then

Why overseas musicals are so popular? The CEO of South Korea Seung Woo Art Planning Pei Seung Hyukas who planned and produced the Korean version of"Les Miserables" "Chicago" "Mamma Mia" shared three elements of the musical progress: theme, music, copyright. "It must be international of musical theme, rather than confined to the history of a country. The South Korean government had ever sponsored the UK show of local musical "Queen Min of Joseon”, which the Korean media praised while the British media did not seem to say any good words. We can share the cultural pattern of musical with everyone around the world, thus it is very important to retell Chinese history and mythology with modern style."

Experts believe that it is quite difficult that domestic musical plays the leading role in the current domestic musical market, and we might adapt some classical overseas musicals, or perform classical overseas musicals with Chinese actors. Like "trace" in calligraphy, first learn the characteristics of Anglo-American musical, then creating will be more effective.

Future: storytelling with good music

There also appeared some impressive musicals in recent years such as "Snow Wolf Lake" "Movie Song" "Sands" "Mad for the song" and some well-known producer, but a large number of investments has been wasted because of lacking of core musicals.

In terms of domestic musical, we should consider the development of Taiwan musical. In the words of critic Yang Zhongheng, the development of Taiwan musical can be described as "restlessness to fresh." He believes that in the past the domestic audience was interested in lavish and elaborate performance, while “Chess” created by Taiwan did not achieve great success with imitating western production in the 1980s. "You have to admit that Europe indeed takes the lead in the production of musicals such as 'big surprise' 'big scenes'.It will be a vicious cycle if the domestic musical just pursue large 'surprise' or strange 'surprise'. In this case, Taiwan musical wins on 'fresh' style with clean story, nice music and refined performance. The musical does not necessarily to be lavish, but be sure to be worth time. "

Hong Kong musician Peter Kam reminded that it is a very important concept that the creator composes songs, wrote lyrics and script when creating new American musicals, while the original creation of the entire work begins with three elements together. "We can not just talking about music when creating music and lyrics as we are storytellers. Composer must work hard in skills, to write effective music which can arouse audiences' feelings. It should be the future development path of musical that telling a story with good music that audiences are interested in. Therefore I hope the domestic musical creators can 'telling story with music' in future."