介绍:
It is more common to adapt a musical into a movie than vice versa.
"Ghost," adapted from a classic movie, shares the same plot with the film. It centers on lovers Sam and Molly, who are attacked as they are returning to their apartment.
When Sam dies, he becomes caught between this world and the next. Molly is in danger and Sam cannot leave her; a medium named Oda Mae Brown helps Sam to get in touch with Molly to warn her of the coming danger.
To make a ghost story haunting, special visual effects must be created on the stage simultaneously with the performance, rather than adding it in post-production, like what's done in movies.
Paul Griffin says the live special effects is one of the musical's prime selling points.
"I think there are so many elements of it that audiences always says to me how are you going to do the famous subway scene, or how is Sam going to walk through walls. And I think it is that, the achievements of that, the fact the creative team managed to find a way to do that and that gives a new life to a story that is so well loved."
According to a recent press release, the special effects may include making the main character Sam appear in ghostly form, which will disappear and reappear during the performance.
In charge of the special effects is English stage technician Paul Kieve, who is recognized as one of the world's leading theatre illusionist.
Paul Griffin explains:
"It is Paul, who is the illusionist of that developed the method, developed the way of doing this. And it's probably one of the smartest magicians I've ever met. And Paul has designed a series of illusions, which allows us to do the impossible, the seemingly impossible on the stage."
Sam will be played by Liam Doyle and Molly by Lucy Jones in the musical.
"Ghost" writer Bruce Joel Rubin adapted his Academy Award-winning script for the 1990 movie into a theater script and tried his hand at writing some of its songs for the musical version.
Since the musical had its world premiere at the Manchester Opera House in March 2011, it's been performed almost 2500 times all over the world.
Being informed of the Beijing-based Poly Theatre taking this musical to the capital city in coming June, Bruce Joel Rubin has expressed good wishes for the musical adaptation of "Ghost" in China.
"I think it's a wonderful message to share this idea of that life is beyond our understanding and that perhaps our greatest dreams and wishes. It continues beyond the material world. And I think that for me it's quite exciting and something that I would like to bring to people from all over the world and through that is going to be part of your experience in China."
The musical raises curtain in Beijing on June 30th and has its last production in the Chinese capital on July 5th.
For Studio Plus, I'm Xu Fei.
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