Chapter 563： Tony Award

The golden stage, a hundred feet wide and sixty feet high, was surrounded by a wall made up of a series of streamlined arches. Before the stage, 6,200 auditoriums covered in fuchsia velvet were fanned out. The dark red carpet on the ground and the golden light on the roof complement each other.

This is New York's Radio City Music Hall, a performance stage located at the Rockefeller Center on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Every May and June, the Tony Awards, the highest award in the American theater industry, are held here.

At this time, there were 6,200 seats under the stage, and there were no empty seats! Because, the fifty-seventh Tony Awards ceremony is now in progress.

On the dark stage, a spotlight gradually turned on, and the applause and cheers from the audience became louder and louder, decorating the stage with excitement. The spotlight was dimly lit, and everyone could clearly see the figure on the stage. White shirt, black bow tie, black suit, dressed in a normal way, but the small lapel made of silk fabric glowed with brilliance under the light, and the black agate buttons on the white shirt seemed to be embellished on the silk. Ink dots. The Windsor-style bow tie reflects the British elegance of the Victorian period. If you pay attention to the tailoring of the waist, the symmetry of the hem of the jacket and the pocket, as well as the tough lines of the shoulder line and cufflinks, you can find that this dress is solemn and transparent. lù has a delicate style. more importantly. The man in this suit can't look away.

The six-foot tǐng stretched out and cast a long shadow under the spotlight. The neat and short hair was combed up, and the forehead was broad and full, with two thick eyebrows, and the light from the eyes below was reflected in the deep outline, with a depth that made people explore. The blade-like straight nose bridge perfectly divides the palm-sized face into two parts, the top is connected with the uninhibited and unrestrained eyebrows, and the thin xìng chún flap on the bottom has an upside-down smile.

Evan Bell. The master of this stage today. Youngest host in Tony Awards history.

"Good evening." Evan Bell put his hands in his pockets. He spoke calmly and gracefully. The applause from the audience became more and more enthusiastic, and Evan Bell couldn't help but raised his hand and pressed it down, hoping to make everyone quieter. Unfortunately it didn't work.

After letting the applause ring for about ten seconds, Evan Bell again gestured to make everyone quiet. This time I can finally hear his voice clearly. "Good evening. I'm a middle-aged and elderly fù girlfriend, Evan Bell."

In the first sentence, Evan Bell succeeded in making all the audience burst into laughter.

There is a source for this joke. Two weeks ago, the "News of the World" published a commentary in which Evan Bell was referred to as a "middle-aged fù girl friend" and they thought the reason why Broadway was in decline. It's because only the elderly are paying attention to Broadway, and the younger generation, especially the young people born in the Internet age, have no interest in Broadway at all. Of course, being in love with xìng is an exception. The energy of the middle-aged and elderly is declining day by day, and Broadway's attendance naturally begins to decline.

"News of the World" thinks. The reason why "Nine" can rejuvenate Broadway is because "Evan Bell is the friend of middle-aged and elderly girls, and he is the little boy that all girls want to tease". In this piece of news, the "News of the World" completely described Evan Bell as a little white-faced man who tried to please a middle-aged woman without compromising his means.

As soon as this news appeared, it became the focus of almost all media discussions. Not because the News of the World targeted Evan Bell, but because of their ironic analysis of Broadway audiences. All along, the crowd that pays attention to Broadway is older. This is a well-known situation. And it's not just the audience, the aging of Broadway shows - "Cats", "The Phantom of the Opera" and other shows have been staged for more than ten or twenty years. There is also the narrow-mindedness of the themes of the repertoire, which has made the situation of Broadway worse and worse.

Many media have satirized the status quo of Broadway before. Call it "Friends of the Elderly". But in fact, the emergence of "nine" did not aggravate this phenomenon, but made a great improvement to this phenomenon.

Because of Evan Bell's appeal, the phenomenon of the audience getting younger is very obvious, and the framework of the "Nine" story of one man and seven women has also attracted the attention of a large number of ordinary men, especially Mormons who advocate polygamy. This show is highly praised. Plus, there's a huge number of young ladies who fall for Evan Bell's glamour. The New York Times jokingly called Evan Bell a "girlfriend's friend".

The distorted and malicious interpretation of the facts by the "News of the World" made the media hotly debated again. And their title of Evan Bell's "friend of middle-aged and elderly women" has also become another explanation for the vulgar and mercenary content of the "News of the World" tabloid.

The audience at the scene did not expect that Evan Bell would actually make fun of himself, and a simple sentence caused laughter to burst out. This is Evan Bell's self-mockery, but also a reflection on the older Broadway audience. The Tony Awards invited Evan Bell as the host of the awards ceremony this year. It itself hopes to change the age structure of the audience, so that the average age of the audience can be younger. Only in this way can Broadway continue to develop. So, this opening also set the tone for this year's Tony Awards: young.

"It's an honor to host the annual Tony Awards. Of course, this award is older than me, and I've been thinking about whether to call it Auntie or Grandma." Evan Bell laughed calmly, which once again made the scene burst into laughter Rise "Here, I want to make a statement on behalf of the entire Broadway cast and crew."

Speaking of which, Evan Bell took both hands out of his pockets, raised his right hand and snapped his fingers in the air. The jazz drum sounded, and Evan Bell's feet jumped flexibly in place immediately: tap dancing, one of the basic Broadway skills. Evan Bell's tap dance, the movements are flowing, the rhythm is natural, and the balance of hands and feet makes the dance posture and tap sound form a wonderful picture.

"No! This is the past. Now, we are like this." Evan Bell said with a smile, snapping his right hand again. Suddenly Amy Nam's music came from the stereo.

As soon as Evan Bell changed his movements, he showed his hip-hop dance posture with wide opening and closing and clear movements. The unrestrained movements, the unrestrained dance steps, and the handsome and neat rhythm, under the coordinated and rhythmic performance of Evan Bell, made people jaw-dropping. The real hip-hop dance comes from the streets. Evan Bell started off Broadway and wandered the streets of Brooklyn. His hip-hop dance skills are absolutely amazing. More importantly, a white man can perform the hip-hop dance that blacks are good at so wonderfully, as if Amy Namm made a breakthrough in the black-dominated rap field as a white man, making the audience applaud. .

The music stops. Evan Bell pulled the slightly messy suit jacket and said again, "This is what you think Broadway is."

This time, Evan Bell challenged ballet. In fact, Evan Bell's basic ballet skills are not very good. His jazz and modern dance skills are more solid, but there is no problem with simple movements, such as jumping, rotating, and pointing. Evan Bell's posture attracted everyone's attention.

"But you're wrong, Broadway can do the same." With Evan Bell's voice, the music changed again. Simple musical drum beats, Evan Bell's body suddenly became tough, this is a typical African dance. A dance full of strength and masculine aura, infinite fire erupted from the muscles, lighting up the stage.

Such Evan Bell is the ** type of Evan Bell. Different from the singer who controls the heart on the music stage, the actor who shines on the big screen, and the charismatic actor on the Broadway stage, Evan Bell at this time is familiar to modern young people. Switching back and forth between street dancers and Broadway actors familiar to traditional middle-aged and elderly people, he easily showed the purchasing agent brought by the age gap and the different perceptions of Broadway in a direct and sharp contrast~www .novelhall.com~ Such Evan Bell is like a perfect combination of classical and modern, exuding a fatal charm that conquers everyone.

The music stopped, and Evan Bell began to unbutton his suit and paced back to the center of the stage. At this time, Evan Bell was alone on the huge stage. This was the Broadway stage, and the group dance was the highlight of the charm, but Evan Bell controlled the entire stage in the palm of his hand with just one person.

"If you go to the scene and watch Broadway, you can feel how amazing the drama is." Evan Bell started the main part of his opening performance by singing. "It's two hours, live version, ticket price. It’s so expensive, no lip sync, no dancers, no band. So, this song is for the rest of you who haven’t watched the play live.”

Evan Bell stood in the middle of the stage and sang calmly, but easily attracted everyone's attention "Because Broadway (adway) has never been so wide, it is no longer only for the elderly to watch!" With Wen-Bell's funny expression, there was laughter and applause at the scene.

At this time, the familiar Broadway music had already sounded, Evan Bell took big strides on the stage, and the Broadway group dancers familiar to the world officially took the stage. Evan Bell's opening performance has only just begun! ! .