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the Montagues are seen in shades of blue and the Capulets in red. Damien Sargue, who has been playing Roméo since the original version, said that when he first played the role in 2001, he was only 20 and naive, but now after having his own daughter, he understands more about true love and has developed a more layered rendition of the role. As a grand performance, ticketing and theater management company, Shenzhen-based AC Orange has been engaged in investing and producing world musicals and dramas in recent years, bringing popular original shows to China, such as “Wicked” and “Madagas- car.” The low-priced weekend children’s plays that have been introduced from various countries are also a favorite of locals. Try your luck to grab early-bird tickets at www.juooo.com. record-breaking 12 Tony Awards. “Rent” is a rock musical loosely based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera “La Bohème.” It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City’s East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alpha- bet City and under the shadow of AIDS. “Rent” gained critical acclaim and won several awards. Next year will be its 20th anniversary. On Broadway, “Rent” gathered a follow- ing of fans who referred to themselves as “Rent-heads.” The name originally referred to people who would camp out at the Ned- erlander Theater for hours in advance for the discounted US$20 rush tickets to each show. The Shenzhen show organizer, AC Orange, will follow that example and sell cheap tickets to young people next year. The only melancholic selection is the French musical, “Roméo et Juliette.” Based on William Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet,” with music and lyrics by Gérard Presgurvic, the musical premiered in Paris in 2001. At the press conference of AC Orange’s 2018 performance season, Eric Dumesnil, the producer of “Roméo et Juliette,” said the show tells Shakespeare’s story in an entertaining way to allow modern audi- ence members to understand the classic. To express the hatred between the two families, the costumes and lighting are designed mainly in two powerful colors: culture ❘ 15 CONTACT US AT: 8351-9409, [email protected] Tuesday November 21, 2017 Cao Zhen [email protected] SHENZHEN is home to a variety of live music and stage shows, along with some major festivals, sporting activities and community events that everyone will enjoy. Currently, four popular international musicals have set dates for shows at the Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center next year. Catch them if you can. The most anticipated musical is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats,” which was staged in Shenzhen in 2008 and will return April 5-8, 2018. Based on “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T. S. Eliot, “Cats” tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night when they make what is known as “the Jellicle choice,” which is to decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. Audience members will enjoy the bril- liant dancers all spiffed up in their col- orful trick costumes, leaping with feline agility through every style of dance, from toe-tapping Broadway jazz steps to more classical ballet moves. “Cats” first opened in London’s West End in 1981 and then with the same creative team on Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards, including best musical at both the Laurence Olivier Awards and the Tony Awards. It has been performed around the world many times. Two more light-hearted musicals, “The Producers” on Jan. 18-21 and “Rent” in October, will bring laughter to the audience. The big robust comedy, “The Producers,” was adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks’ 1967 film of the same name. The story concerns two theatrical producers who scheme to get rich by overselling interest in a Broadway flop. Complica- tions arise when the show unexpectedly turns out to be successful. The humor of the show draws on ridiculous accents, caricatures of homosexuals, and many showbiz jokes. The original Broadway production opened in 2001, winning Curtain up: Hit original musicals to be staged in 2018 CHINA’S national Internet platform featuring information about lost or stolen cultural relics went online Thursday in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province. Its goal is to return listed national treasures home. The bilingual website bdww.sach.gov.cn, in Chinese and English, was launched thanks to the joint efforts from the State Adminis- tration of Cultural Heritage and the Ministry of Public Security. According to Liu Yuzhu, director of the State Administration of Cul- tural Heritage, about 2,230 entries from 19 province-level administra- tive regions nationwide have been included in the database. Some 200 of them were first released online and the rest will be added gradually for the public, with additional entries constantly being added to the online platform. Liu said that the platform will refer “to criteria of the database on lost art pieces of the International Criminal Police Organization,” or Interpol. “The data is also uploaded to the database of Interpol to enhance international cooperation,” he said. “It is also to facilitate repatriation of lost Chinese cultural relics.” Each entry includes pictures and basic information of the lost items, such as the time it was lost, historical background, location, condition and the technique used to make it. The first items published on the platform are varied, from paintings, porcelains and statues to stone lions. Many were stolen in the 1990s, including porcelains stolen from a museum in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, and Buddha heads robbed from a cultural relic warehouse in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Nevertheless, some items went missing more recently. “We don’t even have clear images for some lost cultural relics,” said Wu Zhongfei, a police officer from Shaanxi’s provincial public security department, who is in charge of the online platform. “We’re developing new technol- ogy to portray digital models of these items to help people search for them,” he said. Wu said that apps for smart- phones will also be released to help the public provide clues on the lost cultural relics. The administration has recently finished a nationwide investigation of threats to cultural relic safety covering 20,000 institutions across the country. Du Hangwei, deputy governor of Shaanxi Province, said the new online platform echoes China’s more rigorous campaign in recent years against crimes related to cul- tural relics. Shaanxi is of key historical importance in China. Xi’an was the national capital at several key times during China’s imperial years, like the Western Han (206 B.C.-A.D. 24) and Tang (618-907) dynasties, and thus has abundant cultural relics left buried. (China Daily) Cybersleuths can help fi nd lost relics Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” is one of the most anticipated musicals to be staged in Shenzhen in 2018. Photos by courtesy of AC Orange A poster for “The Producers.” A scene from “Rent,” a light-hearted musical that will be staged in October 2018. Damien Sargue (L) as Roméo and Clémence Illiaquer as Juliette in “Roméo et Juliette.”
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the Montagues are seen in shades of blue and the Capulets in red.
Damien Sargue, who has been playing Roméo since the original version, said that when he fi rst played the role in 2001, he was only 20 and naive, but now after having his own daughter, he understands more about true love and has developed a more layered rendition of the role.
As a grand performance, ticketing and theater management company, Shenzhen-based AC Orange has been engaged in investing and producing world musicals and dramas in recent years, bringing popular original shows to China, such as “Wicked” and “Madagas-car.” The low-priced weekend children’s plays that have been introduced from various countries are also a favorite of locals.
Try your luck to grab early-bird tickets at www.juooo.com.
record-breaking 12 Tony Awards.“Rent” is a rock musical loosely based on
Giacomo Puccini’s opera “La Bohème.” It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City’s East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alpha-bet City and under the shadow of AIDS. “Rent” gained critical acclaim and won several awards. Next year will be its 20th anniversary.
On Broadway, “Rent” gathered a follow-ing of fans who referred to themselves as “Rent-heads.” The name originally referred to people who would camp out at the Ned-erlander Theater for hours in advance for the discounted US$20 rush tickets to each show. The Shenzhen show organizer, AC Orange, will follow that example and sell cheap tickets to young people next year.
The only melancholic selection is the French musical, “Roméo et Juliette.” Based on William Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet,” with music and lyrics by Gérard Presgurvic, the musical premiered in Paris in 2001.
At the press conference of AC Orange’s 2018 performance season, Eric Dumesnil, the producer of “Roméo et Juliette,” said the show tells Shakespeare’s story in an entertaining way to allow modern audi-ence members to understand the classic. To express the hatred between the two families, the costumes and lighting are designed mainly in two powerful colors:
culture x 15CONTACT US AT: 8351-9409, [email protected]
Tuesday November 21, 2017
SHENZHEN is home to a variety of live music and stage shows, along with some major festivals, sporting activities and community events that everyone will enjoy. Currently, four popular international musicals have set dates for shows at the Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center next year. Catch them if you can.
The most anticipated musical is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats,” which was staged in Shenzhen in 2008 and will return April 5-8, 2018. Based on “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T. S. Eliot, “Cats” tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night when they make what is known as “the Jellicle choice,” which is to decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.
Audience members will enjoy the bril-liant dancers all spiffed up in their col-orful trick costumes, leaping with feline agility through every style of dance, from toe-tapping Broadway jazz steps to more classical ballet moves.
“Cats” fi rst opened in London’s West End in 1981 and then with the same creative team on Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards, including best musical at both the Laurence Olivier Awards and the Tony Awards. It has been performed around the world many times.
Two more light-hearted musicals, “The Producers” on Jan. 18-21 and “Rent” in October, will bring laughter to the audience. The big robust comedy, “The Producers,” was adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks’ 1967 fi lm of the same name. The story concerns two theatrical producers who scheme to get rich by overselling interest in a Broadway fl op. Complica-tions arise when the show unexpectedly turns out to be successful. The humor of the show draws on ridiculous accents, caricatures of homosexuals, and many showbiz jokes. The original Broadway production opened in 2001, winning
Curtain up: Hit original musicals to be staged in 2018
CHINA’S national Internet platform featuring information about lost or stolen cultural relics went online Thursday in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province. Its goal is to return listed national treasures home.
The bilingual website bdww.sach.gov.cn, in Chinese and English, was launched thanks to the joint efforts from the State Adminis-tration of Cultural Heritage and the Ministry of Public Security.
According to Liu Yuzhu, director of the State Administration of Cul-tural Heritage, about 2,230 entries from 19 province-level administra-tive regions nationwide have been included in the database. Some 200 of them were fi rst released online and the rest will be added gradually for the public, with additional entries constantly being added to the online platform.
Liu said that the platform will refer “to criteria of the database on lost art pieces of the International Criminal Police Organization,” or Interpol.
“The data is also uploaded to the database of Interpol to enhance international cooperation,” he said. “It is also to facilitate repatriation of lost Chinese cultural relics.”
Each entry includes pictures and basic information of the lost items, such as the time it was lost, historical background, location, condition and the technique used to make it.
The fi rst items published on the platform are varied, from paintings, porcelains and statues to stone lions. Many were stolen in the 1990s, including porcelains stolen from a museum in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, and Buddha heads robbed from a cultural relic warehouse in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Nevertheless, some items went missing more recently.
“We don’t even have clear images for some lost cultural relics,” said Wu Zhongfei, a police offi cer from Shaanxi’s provincial public security department, who is in charge of the online platform.
“We’re developing new technol-ogy to portray digital models of these items to help people search for them,” he said.
Wu said that apps for smart-phones will also be released to help the public provide clues on the lost cultural relics.
The administration has recently fi nished a nationwide investigation of threats to cultural relic safety covering 20,000 institutions across the country.
Du Hangwei, deputy governor of Shaanxi Province, said the new online platform echoes China’s more rigorous campaign in recent years against crimes related to cul-tural relics.
Shaanxi is of key historical importance in China. Xi’an was the national capital at several key times during China’s imperial years, like the Western Han (206 B.C.-A.D. 24) and Tang (618-907) dynasties, and thus has abundant cultural relics left buried.
(China Daily)
Cybersleuths can help fi nd
lost relics
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” is one of the most anticipated musicals to be staged in Shenzhen in 2018. Photos by courtesy of AC Orange
A poster for “The Producers.”
A scene from “Rent,” a light-hearted musical that will be staged in October 2018.
Damien Sargue (L) as Roméo and Clémence Illiaquer as Juliette in “Roméo et Juliette.”
