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How to calculate the time of a year? By day, by sunset, by midnight, by coffee

发布日期： 2018-10-25 来源："Autumn of Chengdu" Chengdu International Music Season

NO DAY BUT TODAY

As for the noise of the crowd, living in the Jincheng Art Palace east of Tianfu Square, it must have been no wonder in the ordinary days. But from October 25 to 28, when there was a different line outside her door, she would be a little surprised. Those in the team are about to welcome this year's only original Broadway musical in Chengdu, Rent.

▲Fans queuing outside the Naderland Theatre to buy tickets, the poster "no day but today" is a famous line in "Jiwu Rent"

The crowd waiting outside the Art Palace in Jincheng is almost the same as that of Nederlander Theatre on West 41st Street in Manhattan, New York, more than 20 years ago, waiting in long queues for rentheads to buy discount tickets for "Jiwu Rent" ("Jiwu Rent Fans").▲Long queues for "Jiwu Rent" and long queues for "Jiwu Rent" (pictures from the Internet)

Of course, all this is worthwhile: not only is the original price of the best seats in the first two rows far more than $20, but also because of the touches they will encounter in the theatre and the reappearance of their lives.

▲In 1996, the original cast of Jiwu Rent, Photography/Joan Marcus

Since its premiere at the Naderland Theatre on April 29, 1996, Jiwu Rent has garnered a large number of fans:

In a news report on March 3, 1997, we learned that a fan had seen 57 Jiwu Rents in less than a year. In contrast, Marnie, who said he had seen Jiwu Rents 12 times in the American TV series Girls, was probably a minor witch in front of this former fan. Witch.

▲The 20th Anniversary Roadster Lineup of Jiwu Rent, Tuyuan/Official Website

And these fans who stand in line all night are in almost the same situation as many of the characters in Jiwu Rent:

Most of them are in their 20s and 30s, Bohemian, living in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York, bound by poverty and disease and unable to guarantee daily food. It is also a coincidence that even in such a difficult situation, these young people are full of yearning for a better life. And pursuit.

The rush tickets, which began with Jiwu Rent, soon became a fixed ticket in Broadway theaters. Since then, other Broadway shows, like Ji's Rent, have begun to sell rush tickets so that audiences who can't afford the original price can be warmed by the Muses in New York's harsh climate. Jeffrey Seller, one of the producers of Jiwu Rent, even said that the introduction of rush tickets was their "proudest moment".

▲"Jiwu Rent" Signboard outside the theatre

In fact, it saved the Broadway Theatre to some extent. In the 1990s, the participation of young Americans under the age of 25 in cultural and artistic activities declined alarmingly due to rising ticket prices and continuing cultural changes.

The rush tickets for Jiwu Rent, as well as the social groups concerned, make young people feel that it is still cool to go to the theatre to see the play. Their participation not only brought the most enthusiastic fans to the forefront of the stage, but also brought back a large number of potential youths with the most artistic vitality to art life. Outside the Manhattan Street Theatre, the long queue for tickets has become the cultural landscape of New York.

▲Broadway Theatre

Presenting art to people who are slightly economically difficult is an act of art in itself.

The fine tradition of Jiwu Rent continues even today: from October 25 to 28, ticket prices for the 20th Anniversary Tour of the original Broadway version of Jiwu Rent, which will meet fans in Chengdu, are discounted on all major ticketing websites. For example, in Juorange. com, a ticket with a face value of 380 yuan can be bought with only 99 yuan after enjoying a special discount; such a price must be very attractive to many people.

Juorange's Limited Preferential Tickets: Tickets with a face value of 380 yuan only sell for 99 yuan, which can be said to be rush tickets in the era of the Internet

In fact, Jiwu Rent has been performing for 22 consecutive years since it was first performed at Broadway Theatre in 1996, and her upcoming meeting with Chengdu audiences is actually a stop for her twentieth anniversary tour, which began on September 12, 2016.▲The 20th Anniversary of Jiwu Rent, Tuyuan/Official Website

At present, the 20th Anniversary Tour Schedule of Jiwu Rental has reached July 14, 2019 on the official website of Jiwu Rental; that is to say, the 20th Anniversary Tour of Jiwu Rental has been determined to be performed for at least three years. So it has its own fanatical rentheads all over the world.

Of course, it is not only because of the changes it has brought to Broadway musicals, but also because it has influenced and even led the pop culture of Europe and America from the day of its birth to today.

Fans of Friends will remember Rachel's funny dialogue with Chandler in Season 4, Episode 6 (1998). Even some of Rose's character settings (divorced from his ex-wife because she found she liked women) are very similar to the experience of Mark, one of the protagonists of Jiwu Rent.

Fans of Green Days will remember that in 2009, when the band's most famous album, American Idiot, was adapted into a musical, it was inspired by Jiwu Rent.

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Musical drama AMERICAN IDIOT

Fans of Glee will remember that in 2010, in the final of the second season of Rachel and Mercedes, they chose Take Me or Leave Me:

Take Me Or Leave MeRachel & Mercedes - Comeback

In the third season of 2011, the Glee Chorus included Seasons of Love, the classic track of Jiwu Rent, in their "Graduation Season Album".Seasons of LoveGlee Cast - The Quarterback(Music From the TV Series)Seasons of LoveGlee Cast - The Quarterback(Music From the TV Series)

Cory Monteith, the star of Glee, died unexpectedly in July 2013. The members of the Chorus, dressed in black, sang the Seasons of Love again on the stage, measuring and commemorating Montes'short but powerful life with love.

Later, at the Tony Award Ceremony in 2018, a group of students from the high school where the shooting took place in Florida also sang the song in memory of the young lives lost in the shooting.

▲The Tony Award in 2018 set up a special segment in which students from the school where the shooting took place on campus sang a song of Love in memory of the students who were killed.

In fact, this Seasons of Love is not the first time that it has been heard at the Tony Award: at the Tony Award award ceremony in 1996, Cass, the first edition of Jiwu Rent, sang affectionately.

In that year, it took only three months for Jiwu Rent to sweep the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Drama, the Theatre World Award for Newcomers, as well as the Best Musical Drama, Best Original Drama. Four Tony Awards, including Music, etc.

▲Jonathan Larsen（1960.02.04-1996.01.25）

However, Jonathan Larson, the author of Jiwu Rent, was unable to see all this for himself; he died suddenly in the early morning of January 25, 1996, due to aortic aneurysm, which was the day when Jiwu Rent premiered on Broadway.

Jonathan created hundreds of original songs for Jiwu Rent, which eventually appeared in 42 pieces of the play. It combines rock, country, R&B, tango and other musical styles. Each song plays an important role in characterization and plot promotion.

Jonathan's creative style, which integrates modern music and musicals, has also exerted a great influence on some classical musicals.

Many of the people who grew up watching Jiwu Rent in the 1990s, nurtured by it, have become the backbone of Broadway music. For example, in recent years, the creators of the phenomenal Broadway musical Hamilton have been deeply influenced by Jiwu Rent.

▲The poster of the musical Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the screenwriter of Hamilton, has repeatedly shown his attributes as a brain-damaged fan of Jiwu Rent: he can answer fans'questions entirely with the lyrics of Jiwu Rent, a fan who asks him how many books he has, and he replies, "Five hundred and twenty." "Five thousand, six hundred minutes" is a lyric from the song Seasons of Love in Jiwu Rent.

▲Writer and former starring Lin Manuel Miranda of Hamilton

Another founder, Leslie Odom, Jr, said: "I recently heard a saying:'An artist will spend all his life in the place where his heart was first opened', and Jiwu Rent was such a place for me when I was twelve or thirteen years old."

▲Leslie Odom, Jr

Hamilton even innovated the rush tickets (rush tickets) form since "Jiwu Rent" and changed it to lottery tickets (lottery tickets):

▲Hamilton sold at a low price before the show“Lottery ticket”，Photography/Mark Peterson

Around 17:55 before Hamilton's evening performance, thousands of people gathered at the entrance of the Richard Rodgers Theatre on West 46th Street. They threw a piece of paper with numbers and names into a bucket. By 6 p.m., about 20 lucky people would win the prize. They could buy 167 for only $10. Dollar front row tickets for Hamilton.

Within minutes of waiting for the award, Miranda will also wear casual clothes and present a piece of music to fans who insist on staying on West 46th Street in the cold and hot weather.

▲Miranda sang live in front of the theatre for the fans who lined up.

Will the crowd gathering on West 46th Street in Manhattan, while waiting for a lottery ticket, recall the young people on West 41st Street 20 years ago?

These two theatres greatly influenced the progress of Broadway musicals. Not too far from them is the Museum of Modern Art in New York. There is a collection of the painting Broadway Boogie-Woogie by Piet Cornelies Mondrian, a Dutch painter.

▲Broadway Boogie-Woogie，1943，Graphic source/Wikipedia

The painting was inspired by the orderly streets of Manhattan, New York, and, more importantly, by the Burkiwooki music that was playing at the time of the Broadway Theatre.

▲Boogie Woogie舞

在《吉屋出租》上演前半个世纪，俯瞰着曼哈顿街巷中行色匆匆的人群，蒙德里安在他标志性的，由几何空间构成的画面上，添加上了更多细小的，有着绚烂色彩的形状。

在蒙德里安心中，这些形状或许正是在纽约的寒冬中寻求一线梦想之光的人们，或许不是。但无论如何，在他画作规整的空间中，我们听到了自由的节奏。

▲来听一段《吉屋出租》原版的Seasons of Love

Seasons Of LoveVarious Artists - RENT - Selections From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Half a century later, on the avenue in front of the Broadway Theatre, people who were equally distressed and dreaming lined up just to meet the same rhythm in Jiwu Rent.

Today, the rhythm will sway again in the warm autumn of Chengdu, and soon, outside the art palace of Jincheng, people will also queue up for music - after all, whether in harsh New York or soft Chengdu, cities are places where people's freedom and dreams come into being.

▲《吉屋出租》宣传片