Entertaining Children

The effect of the first rehearsal was very good, and it also gave great confidence to those who participated in the Spring Festival Gala for the first time. Eight??One Chinese Network W≈WW. 81 ZW. Of course, this is the second time for Chen Chen to participate in the Spring Festival Gala, but compared with his rap song "Play" last year, this time "The Great Wall" not only sings, raps and dances, but also has to pay attention to the contrast with other people. The difficulty of cooperating is much higher, so his nervousness is actually no less than that of Xiao Yao, Gong Chen and Xu Yuan who participated in the Spring Festival Gala for the first time.

Almost ten days later, the program group of the Spring Festival Gala held a second rehearsal, and at the same time confirmed the final list of performances. The two programs of the four including Xiao Yao also performed very well in the second rehearsal, and their programs also passed the test smoothly, and they were on the final program list of this year's Spring Festival Gala. For a program, it took nearly 20 days to practice and prepare for more than half a month, and almost half of a winter vacation was spent, and this effort was finally not in vain.

After the second rehearsal was over, Xiao Yao and the others breathed a sigh of relief, and the next step was to wait with peace of mind for the official live performance on the evening of the New Year's Eve two days later.

After six o'clock in the afternoon on New Year's Eve, CCTV's No. 1 studio hall and the backstage were all busy.

Due to the large number of actors participating in the performance, no matter how big CCTV is, the number of lounges for the actors in the backstage is also limited. It is impossible to give the actors of each program a separate lounge. Many actors have to share the lounge with the actors of other programs. Waiting field. Xiao Yao and Chen Chen's show has two lead singers, eight backup dancers, and eight harmony voices, a total of 18 performers. This number is already quite a lot, but the program team considered that Gong Chen and Xu Yuan are more familiar with Xiao Yao. , and they were all singing and dancing shows, so Gong Chen and Xu Yuan were stuffed into their lounge.

There are only 20 actors in a lounge, plus costumers, makeup artists, and staff who occasionally come in and out. Even if the CCTV lounge is large, it seems a bit crowded, but fortunately, everyone has a good relationship with Xiao Yao. , staying together is more harmonious.

Suddenly, the door of the lounge was pushed open. Xiao Yao and the others, who were chatting and relaxing, heard the movement and looked towards the door. A female reporter with a microphone and a photographer with a video camera walked in together.

"Hello, we are the reporter team of the program group "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala". Can I interview you?" The female reporter greeted the people in the lounge very politely after entering the door.

The Spring Festival Gala officially starts at 8:00 p.m., but the previous live broadcast reports have already started in the afternoon, aiming to report some front- and back-stage stories and preparations for people who are following the Spring Festival Gala. This is also a practice in recent years. Looking at the big CCTV logo on the female reporter's microphone, the people in the lounge naturally wouldn't refuse.

Seeing the actors in the waiting room nodding and smiling, the female reporter nodded to the cameraman behind her to turn on the camera and connect to the studio in front of her.

"host,

I'm Yu Hua, and I'm doing an interview in the backstage lounge of the Spring Festival Gala. Standing behind me now are the performance teams of two singing and dancing shows. Let's say hello to our viewers and friends who are watching the live broadcast. "Yu Hua said, and deliberately moved to the side.

"Hello, audience friends." Xiao Yao and others all squeezed in front of the camera and waved. Then the eight backup dancers and the eight chorus retreated away in a sensible manner, leaving only four singers including Xiao Yao still standing in front of the camera. They all knew that they were only supporting roles, and if the reporter wanted to interview, they must be looking for four singers.

"These four are very young singers, and young audiences should be familiar with and like them..." Yu Hua stood back in front of the camera and introduced, then stopped suddenly and pressed the earphones in his ears, laughing He said, "Well, I know Zhang Qiong, you are also very familiar with and like Xiao Yao, if you want to tell the audience all over the country that you are not young anymore, I can't help it!"

"Next, I will briefly interview a few of you." Yu Hua said, standing next to Chen Chen and asked, "Chen Chen, if I remember correctly, you should be the only one of the four singers in this room who has participated in the Spring Festival Gala before. Yes, how do you feel now, are you more relaxed than the three of them?"

"It's a great honor for me to participate in this year's Spring Festival Gala performance. I still feel excited and looking forward to it." Chen Chen smiled and said to the camera, "Speaking of relaxation, it is indeed more relaxed than last year. Apart from participating in this year for the second time, the more The most important thing is that this year I performed with my good brother, and I felt a lot more relieved to have him as a monster next to me. Unlike last year, he wrote a song for the Spring Festival Gala and recommended me to sing, but he himself didn’t come.” Said Then, Chen Chen deliberately turned his head to look at Xiao Yao.

"Brother, I was only a middle school student last year, a senior in high school." Xiao Yao said helplessly.

"Where are you two? It's your first time participating in the Spring Festival Gala this year. How do you feel?" Yu Hua knew that Xiao Yao was the core figure in the room, so he deliberately put him last, so after asking Chen Chen, he turned to Gong Chenhe Xu Yuan said.

"I'm very happy to be able to participate in the performance of the Spring Festival Gala, but I'm a little nervous." Gong Chen replied simply.

"Me too, I hope the audience will like our performance tonight." Xu Yuan also smiled and waved his hand.

"Can you give us a brief introduction to the repertoire you are going to perform tonight?" Yu Hua asked again.

As early as a week ago, various versions of the program list for the Spring Festival Gala were circulated on the Internet. Now it is less than two hours before the official start of the show. The program list no longer needs to be kept secret. Asking the actors to introduce the repertoire to be performed is also done in the past few years. A common problem in the live broadcast of "Straight to the Spring Festival Gala".

"The song we sang is "Song Not For Whom". During the performance, the scenes in the mV will be played live." Xu Yuan introduced, "Thanks to the director team of the Spring Festival Gala for giving us this rare opportunity, and of course we also want to thank those around us This guy has written such a good song for us and produced such a meaningful mV, which is also an important reason why we can appear here tonight." After speaking, Xu Yuan also spread his palms and pointed to his side together Xiao Yao.

"I know that the song of the two of them was written by you, Xiao Yao," Yu Hua finally turned to Xiao Yao and said, "I also know that there is a rumor about you that as long as you perform publicly, you will have an original new song. Today Will there be original new songs on the Spring Festival Gala?"

"No," Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head and said, "This is the Spring Festival Gala, the program review is very strict, not just any program can be on, unless it is the "Playing" I wrote for Chen Chen last year, which is specially for the Spring Festival Gala. I wrote a new song, otherwise it would be difficult to choose, but I can't just play around."

"Then what is your show tonight?" Yu Hua continued to ask.

"'The Great Wall', a song I performed before, I think there should be some audiences who have an impression." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "But it doesn't matter if you don't have an impression, I can give you a reminder."

"Reminder?" Yu Hua was a little confused, but before he could ask the question, he saw lights on the clothes of Xiao Yao, Chen Chen, and the dancers beside him.

"Wow, what a cool performance costume," Yu Hua exclaimed, and then asked with a smile on purpose, "This should be your secret weapon, right? Just reveal it in our show in advance, aren't you afraid that the director team will make trouble for you?" ?”

"Actually, this is not the first time we have performed in this kind of costume. Some audiences who have seen it already know it." Xiao Yao smiled indifferently, "But what I want to say is that our official performance is far more than This is what is shown now. And our dance today is different from what we performed before, even the audience who have watched our song performance before should be pleasantly surprised." When Xiao Yao was speaking, ten All the lights on the personal clothes suddenly went out again.

"Okay, then we will wait and see, thank you for accepting my interview." Yu Hua said with a smile, ready to leave.

"Yo~ I'm interviewing, so I won't delay you?" Just at this moment, the door of the lounge where Xiao Yao and the others were staying was pushed open again. Yu Hua looked back and saw a middle-aged woman in a navy uniform walking in with a smile.

"Hello, Teacher Su!" Several young singers came and greeted politely one after another.

The name of the person who came was Su Xiao, and his military rank of major general was displayed on the shoulder patch of his military uniform. Unlike those stars who were specially recruited into the military art troupe after becoming famous, Su Xiao joined the army when he was less than 20 years old. Later, he was transferred to the navy art troupe because of his outstanding literary talent. He made his debut in the CCTV singing competition more than 20 years ago He was already an official soldier when he was born, and later went to Germany to study vocal music, which was also assigned by the state. Over the years, except for relatively large-scale national performances and military condolences, she has not participated in any local variety show performances, and she is not seen in ordinary commercial performances. Everyone still respects such a character. of.

"Mr. Su Xiao, why are you here?" Yu Hua quickly gestured, and the cameraman immediately pointed the camera at Su Xiao, and Yu Hua also extended the microphone to Su Xiao, asking, "Are you here to care about the situation?" Is it to guide these young juniors?"

Su Xiao is a national first-class actor, a singer with popular singing methods, and is already close to a national treasure. He usually has no connection with these so-called idol stars in the entertainment industry. Yu Hua is also very surprised why Su Xiao would Come to Xiao Yao and the rest of these young idol star singers.

"Guiding is nothing to talk about, it's barely enough to care about it," Su Xiao said with a smile, "The most important thing is, I'm here to thank you."

"Thank you? Who are you thanking?" Yu Hua turned his head suspiciously and looked around the people in the lounge, and finally set his sights on the accompaniment singers of the National Opera House, if he could have a relationship with Su Xiao Yes, people from the National Opera House, which also belongs to the state unit, are the most likely. Yu Hua began to feel that his practice of ignoring the supporting singers of the National Opera House just now seemed a bit inappropriate.

Su Xiao bowed to Yu Hua, walked up to Xiao Yao, stretched out her hand and said, "I know that Zhao Lanying has already thanked you, but she is from the Army Art Troupe and can only represent the Army. This time, I represent The Marines thank you."

"You're being serious, I actually didn't do anything." Xiao Yao quickly bowed slightly and held Su Xiao's outstretched hand, and said modestly.

"Huh?" Everyone in the lounge was dumbfounded. "What's the situation? Zhao Lanying thanked Xiao Yao on behalf of the army, and Su Xiao thanked Xiao Yao on behalf of the navy?"

"Mr. Su, can you tell us what's going on? Do you have anything to thank Xiao Yao?" Yu Hua hurriedly asked.

"The "Night of the Military Port" I'm going to sing tonight was written by Xiao Yao." Su Xiao smiled.

"Xiao Yao wrote you a song?" Yu Hua asked in surprise.

Yu Hua had already obtained tonight's program list in advance, but the program list only had the names of the performers, not the creators.

"It wasn't written specifically for me." Su Xiaodao, "Xiao Yao once wrote the songs of the Tenth Army Brigade to Zhao Lanying of the Army Art Troupe. He said that as long as the performances related to the army were performed, he would authorize them to sing for free. "Night at the Military Port" is One of these ten songs, Zhao Lanying gave me this song because it was obviously about the navy. Although it was not written specifically for me, he wrote it for our army and our soldiers, and it is free I donated the song to the army, knowing that he is here, of course I want to come over to express my thanks to him.”

When Xiao Yao first gave Zhao Lanying these ten songs, there was a restriction that the performance occasions related to the military theme should be authorized for free. Although the Spring Festival Gala is not a military-themed party, praising soldiers is also a fixed part of the Spring Festival Gala, and it is also related to the military theme, so Su Xiao's singing "Military Port Night" in the Spring Festival Gala is of course free.

"Have you ever written military songs? And you wrote ten songs at once?" Xu Yuan asked Xiao Yao in surprise.

"You gave them all away for free?" Chen Chen also asked.

Except for some of Xiao Yao's college classmates, even Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying didn't know about it, let alone Chen Chen, Gong Chen and Xu Yuan, so it was the first time they heard about it.

"Well," Xiao Yao nodded and said, "These military songs are all written for the soldiers, so it's my way of showing a little respect to the soldiers who defended their homes and the country. How dare I ask for copyright fees? "

"So, on behalf of the soldiers, I also want to express my gratitude and respect to you!" Su Xiao said, raising his hand to salute Xiao Yao.

"Don't," Xiao Yao quickly grabbed Su Xiao's arm in fright and said, "Don't do this, it's just a few songs, you have already thanked me just now, I can't bear the military salute." Let a major general Saluting himself, Xiao Yao really felt that he couldn't bear it.

"It's okay not to salute," Su Xiao saw that Xiao Yao stopped him from saluting, and he didn't force it. He just smiled and said to Xiao Yao, "But if you come out with good military works in the future, how about looking for me directly? I know You are very good at writing songs." Saying that, Su Xiao took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Xiao Yao.

"Of course no problem." Xiao Yao took it with both hands politely, and readily agreed.