When going to New York, you must go to Broadway to see a musical. As an exotic musical, its practical experience spanning over a century shows that in addition to sightseeing, shopping, and tasting delicious food, musicals with modern aesthetics are also eye-catching.

The upcoming "Silk Road" themed musical "The Sound of the Silk Road" jointly created by Shaanxi Travel Group and the Broadway gold medal production team will add a new business card to Xi'an and add more international style and fashion.

Musical theater has three major elements: drama, music, and dance. Let's take a look at the international style of "The Sound of Silk Road" from these three elements ~

Drama--the gold medal team strives to create

As a "drama", the story is of course the focus. World-renowned musicals such as "Cat","Oliver Twist", and "Notre Dame" are all fascinating in terms of plots.

The list of creators of "The Sound of Silk Road" shines with the aura of Broadway: executive producer Don Frantz has participated in the production of the Broadway musicals "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King"; director Gabriel Barre has been nominated for a Tony Award and has an orthodox Broadway "gene" and directed the Broadway classic musical "Amazing Grace"; screenwriter Marc Acito is a Broadway playwright and novel writer who has participated in the Broadway musical "Loyalty" and the off-Broadway musical comedy "The Villain Jones".

Music-Seeking change from tradition

Music defines the existence of musicals and is the soul of musicals. It allows people to wander in dynamic melodies and immerse themselves in situations beyond time and space. It plays an important role in musicals. The composer and music director of "The Sound of the Silk Road" is the famous composer Jin Peida who won the Silver Bear Award for Best Film Music at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Teacher Jin Peida said that the most interesting thing we did in the play "The Sound of the Silk Road" was that the beginning was still modern, and the protagonist appeared in the light rock, which was more like the light rock music of modern Western Broadway. In ancient times, there would be ancient people's songs. We call it "The Gate of the World", which is more atmospheric. Speaking of the Silk Road, many Western cultures come in from the Silk Road, so the more ethnic musical elements on the Silk Road, such as music from different cultures such as Turkey and Armenia, are also included. When you listen to light rock and ancient music, there are also some ethnic music on the Silk Road. There is a place where we will have a little dark humor and use some jazz music, but they are all played by Chinese instruments. There are many different changes in this play.

Dance-Multicultural Integration

Hu Lei's director's works have won the "Wenhua Award Special Award", the "Five Ones Project Award", the "National Minority Literature and Art Performance Works Gold Medal, and the Director Award". Representative works are musicals "The Qin of Steel","The Long March of Wang Er","Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen","Humen Selling Cigarettes","Osmanthus Rain","Expert", etc.

Hu Lei said that the biggest challenge in this drama is that there are too many types of dances. I have done many musicals in the past. The musical "The Sound of the Silk Road" is my 10th musical. I have never encountered such many categories of dances in one play. There are many types of dances involved, including modern dance, classical dance that crossed the Han Dynasty, dances from countries in the Western Regions, etc.

"The Sound of the Silk Road" will be staged at the Shaanxi Grand Theater on July 23. I believe that this story of "traveling" running through China and the West, with the careful design of all the "big shots", will bring us a visual feast!