Cctv5 also played some tricks in live musicals this time, with a lot of gimmicks, and invited the famous 1960s star Fei Xiang as a guest. Before the official opening, the channel's ratings were already very high.

Fei Xiang is a legend in the Chinese entertainment industry. He graduated from Taipei Shilin American School in 1978 and was admitted to Stanford University in the United States with excellent grades and started studying medicine. A year later, he transferred to the drama department of Stanford University, and later admitted to New York to specialize in stage performance. Such a person is a super academic master.

Fei Xiang was once popular all over the country in China. At the 1987 Spring Festival Gala, his song "Clouds in Hometown" sang women across the country to write love letters to him.

In 1989, Fei Xiang held a total of 65 concerts in 12 cities in mainland China. At that time, the Central News Film Studio also specially combined the tour to shoot the documentary film "Fei Xiang and His Song". After the tour, Fei Xiang bid farewell to the Chinese pop music scene and went to New York to seek the development of musicals and stage plays, and began his own new pursuits and challenges.

In 1991, Fei Xiang competed to participate in the musical "Miss Saigon" and became a team actor. Later, he starred in musicals such as "The Key" and "Nico and Nora". Soon he was selected by Andrew Weber as one of the four leading singers in his special works. He toured in more than 40 cities in the United States, and he also played the Phantom.

Fei Xiang has achieved great success in the United States, but in Chinese musicals, they are niche and do not like or pay attention to them, so his popularity has declined a lot in China.

In 1997, he promoted musicals in China and translated some classic songs into Chinese singing. After knowing this, he was happy to be a guest.

Fei Xiang first briefly introduced the background of the story, and then the musical began. He would give some explanations for some things that were difficult for the audience to understand.

The story of the musical is basically the same as the movie. Guo Xu will not appear after a while and wait in the background.

Xi Aila, who was the starring actor for the first time, was restless and nervous. Guo Xu, who had already done the phantom shape, walked to her side, gently stroked her head, and encouraged: "You must do it, because you are Christine Daiye."

Xi'era was stunned for a moment, smiled, and her self-confidence came back all of a sudden.

Guo Xu is right. In reality, she looks very much like Christine, which is her true performance. She suddenly became the heroine of this big show, as if it was a play in the middle of the show, and Guo Xu did teach her a lot like a phantom.

What Guo Xu taught was not singing, but acting, which was better than Patrick Wilson who had been in Hollywood for many years. This made Xiera feel incredible. Guo Xu told her how to improve her acting skills, and what she taught was as professional as a teacher in a film and television school. (He really worked as a teacher)

Some of Guo Xu's small details are designed very exquisitely. Xi'era will be outstanding as long as she acts as he says. Singing is something she is good at, and she is even more powerful than Guo Xu. As long as she performs well, she will be foolproof.

The opening was an auction, using flashbacks. The elderly Viscount Raul took a monkey music box. Then the auction item was a gorgeous chandelier. The auction host talked about the "supernatural event of the Phantom of the Opera" and brought up the theme.

After an introduction to the disaster and the rehabilitation of the damaged chandeliers, the symphony orchestra began to play the theme song, and the cloth covered with the chandeliers was pulled up.

Before Guo Xu appeared, many viewers were shocked because the crew really hung a large ceiling above the stadium. In order to study how to avoid the large screen of the stadium and not affect the subsequent basketball game, when setting up stage props, the people in the Grand Theater used their brains and worked hard for two days.

In order to cooperate with this performance, the league specially changed the time of the Rockets' last game to facilitate the crew to set up the stage. The Rockets had no games when the Stars' weekend was four days away, which allowed Guo Xu and others to successfully rehearse on Wednesday and Thursday.

The first act is the performance time for supporting actors, and the singers and extras in the Grand Theater work hard.

Because Guo Xu did not appear, in order to stabilize the Chinese audience, the three hosts explained together.

Fei Xiang explained that there are three clever "play within the play" settings in the play. The scene of "Phantom of the Opera" is set in the Paris Opera House, so the opera performance is an important clue throughout the entire movie.

The beauty is that the three plays in the play, written by Andrew Weber, not only bring an audio-visual feast to the audience, but also echo the plot, making the plot coherent and emotional impact to the audience, providing hints, laying the foundation and setting clues for the development of the story, indicating the emergence or intensification of contradictions, and giving the audience a sense of wandering between reality and illusion.

The first act is the rehearsal of the play "Hannibal" in the play. When the masses sing "Listen to the drums, Hannibal has arrived", it means that the "Phantom" who has been hiding in the opera house for a long time is about to appear. Because Hannibal's cruel and aggressive behavior is exactly the same as the "Phantom".

The "Hannibal has arrived" here is like the "Phantom" going out of the wet and dark sewer, wearing a black mask and a black cloak, the evil aura comes to the face, giving the viewer a strong hint and paving the way for the next scene. The bloody prop heads in the rehearsal of "Hannibal" gave the viewer a strong psychological shock, and also highlighted the murders of the "Phantom" in the future, in order to achieve his goals.

Most Chinese audiences don’t care about this, they don’t think it’s attractive at all, and they even start to feel drowsy. Many people send text messages to ask the protagonist Guo Xu why he hasn’t appeared yet?

"Mermaid" Sierra set off the first climax of the musical.

Her acting skills were the best in the movie version as soon as she appeared. When Mrs. Gillie called out to sing, she bent her body, leaned forward and stood up straight, her face full of tension and looked unconfident. After singing a few sentences, she even wanted to run away. Mrs. Gillie knocked on the ground with a crutch and she stopped.

This small detail caught people's attention, and then Christine sang better and became better. After changing clothes quickly on the stage, she was no longer nervous. She also pulled a scarf and appeared vividly with her rich body language.

Next, Christine talked about the music angel with her friend Meg, and recognized her childhood sweetheart Viscount Raul.

At this time, all the professional film critics who watched the show had already recognized Xi Aila, and her acting skills were beyond expectations. Many people were ready to use this to criticize Guo Xu, thinking that it would be difficult for him to compare his acting skills with two professionals, and the gap would definitely be huge.

Who would have thought that Guo Xu was the master during rehearsal? Patrick was convinced by his performance.

When Raul went out, Guo Xu finally opened his voice. Before he showed up, he sang a paragraph first.

He attracted everyone as soon as he opened his mouth. "The arrogant boy, the slave of fashion, is intoxicated in your glory! The ignorant idiot, this brave young suitor, sit and enjoy the fruits of my victory!"

Guo Xu's voice was thick and high-pitched, like a chicken blood, which was completely different from when he sang pop songs. The fans who came to the scene were stunned.

Is this what Jason Guo sang? It doesn’t look like it very much!

Christine, are your angels so bloody?

The playwright Andrew was excited. He admired Guo Xu's acting style the most. He sang a great voice. He showed the Phantom's strong possessiveness as soon as he opened his mouth and started to perform before he showed his face. He was the person who was least worried about Guo Xu's performance. He had seen the complete rehearsal before.
Chapter completed!