Some Thoughts On Foreign Musical Performance

Since the 20 th century, from the west end of London to Broadway in New York, the world mainstream musical stage presents the diversified development.The Chinese version of "mamma mia!" ’s great success in domestic tour, caused a flood of foreign musical Chinese production.As a developing country, we for the musical this "import" with a kind of "nationalization" patriotism, to retain the original flavor of the play, and conforms to the Chinese audience tastes and drama performance requirements, in terms of text and compilation of lyrics, and actor in the present on the stage, should be combined with the actual to the second creation, the actor’s quality also should be more responsive to musical training aspects of the opera "play, singing and dancing" be short of one cannot.In this paper, the foreign musical text compiling, actors and actress quality training issue to think about these three points, intended to found in the analysis of examples of foreign musical Chinese version to make the key to explore suitable for China’s domestic audience popular musical mode, set up the development of foreign musical Chinese production line, make more good foreign musical works can be made into a Chinese version, for a Chinese audience favorite.According to many years experience of musical performance, the author thought, after the scene view western musical performances and in learning the process of production and practice of western musical performance, to find a Chinese actor and a bridge between the western musical performances,through the comparison of many stage performance form, to find a contemporary Chinese style with the localization of foreign musical interpretation.