First week of 'Soul of basketball' event 🔥🏀, part 3
(sports anime arc nobody expected)
Let's go!
April 21st, night: Wang Yifei, Guo Hongxu, Deng Xianling
🏀 Match resulted in 16:19 score, ghx won and set a new highest score 🌟 he was very humble about it:
⬆ Deng Xianling was being very cute :>
⬆ Wang Yifei and Deng Xianling leaving the theatre bc I love their style (Dengdeng's fits are usually this cute tbh)
April 22nd: Shu Rongbo, Du Guangyi, Cai Lu
On Monday the theatre's score board got updated an just... look:
'How did this happen?' you may ask... Well, we've established Du Guangyi isn't trying to win. Look, he's proud of his 0 points ⬇
But how does the baby, cast's honorary little brother, Shu 'Shmol' Rongbo Bobi score mf 36 points??
Thanks to our kind twitter correspondents (Bō and Fanny 🙏) we know exactly what went down ☕
So srb told dgy that he had just one performance this month (his only chance to gather points 🥺) so dgy let him win and even helped. How exactly? Apparently Du Guangyi just picked Shu Rongbo up and he slamdunked all the points like:
I had to at least try reconstructing it bc I CAN'T WITH THEM 🥺😭
Ji Xiaokun and Guo Hongxu. Sometimes we get a hug and sometimes we get a tsundere elbow nudge, and both are good.
That hug is from the 29th. Wu Yihan and Shu Rongbo. But this blurry video is the only image of the jump hug that got captured! Someone in the audience yelled for them to hug. Edit: better video acquired: http://xhslink.com/HgEpAE
Cai Lu gets bubble gun rights for blowing bubbles around Ji Xiaokun and Guo Hongxu’s bestie handshake.
I’m ecstatic we finally have a visual for the “difficult ribbon throwing” people keep talking about. Thank you Du Guangyi for demonstrating stellar skills.
You're the first person who recognised any actors from Link Click musical. Are you perhaps a fan of chinese theatre in general? If yes, can you pleease give us some insight about it 👉👈? Like, is our suspicion that the audience can record/photograph only the encore true? Or can we hope to get an official recording/songs audio someday? And ohmygod I hope your finals go well aand you'd be able to see the play. Please share some of your experience with us!
(sorry if I rambled, i'm like a child in the dark while trying to learn about this musical ><)
no worries! this is so sweet aha
unfortunately i don't know that much about chinese theatre (im not much of a theatre kid in english either tbh), a couple of the actors for Lu Guang (Guo Hongxu and Wang Minhui) were on season 2 of the variety show Super Vocal by MGTV which is basically like. a singing contest show for musical theatre people (its honestly a pretty good show, some of the music is very good)
anyway worms in my brain aside yeah as far as i know for shows like these audience members are only allowed to record the encores, and so far i don't think ive seen any talk about an official recording but i think they said the show will be running long-term(?) in shanghai so that's something..? unfortunately i havent managed to look that closely into the show yet but yeah once i get around to it i'll probably post about it more!
(ayo it's been a while since I saw Ji Xiaokun play CXS and oh boy, he is so back ✨)
Recently Ji Xiaokun has been quite active on weibo and posting behind the scenes photos. He takes most of them himself and is clearly having fun with it, so check them out:
look, isn't it basically live action Cheng Xiaoshi running around, taking pictures of his friends and Lu Guang? im sobbing
240121 lineup was: Deng Xianling, Ji Xiaokun, Guo Hongxu
🥹😭💖
I honestly don't know who crushed my heart harder today
(The 100th performance and 2 special encore videos, also I cried from joy and it's not an offtop)
@elaraqwq attended the 100th play, gave away the postcards we made to the audience and SOMEHOW delivered them to the trio actors 😭🧡💙💕 As an absolute legend she is, she sent me the pictures as a proof 🙇♂️ So I lost my mind about the loveliness of it all and took a while to chill o7 💝
But enough of that! Lemme tell you abt today's events ✨
Feb 25th, noon performance: Ji Xiaokun, Guo Hongxu, Cai Lu, Guo Zhenyan, Li Zexi
For special encore they did full version of 'You can forget about it' ('Rock, paper, scissors song') but sung is 3 different dialects: from Hebei, Shandong and Shanghai (lowkey foreshadowing).
TW:CXS's dramatic ass once again puts on the noose, so if it makes you uncomfortable, be warned~
If you've been listening to this song over and over again (like me), you should be able to hear the difference in pronounciation. It's as if they changed the lyrics completely ><
Feb 25th, night, the 100th performance: Cai Qi, Wang Minhui, Deng Xianling, Zhang Jiahao, Zhu Jiayan
It's full version of 'As the saying goes' (earthquake arc mom and son quarrel) with Cai Qi in place of Cheng Xiao and Wang Minhui as his mom. Joined by the rest of cast :>
I called the earlier encore foreshadowing bc (like in dongua) the earthquake arc characters speak in Sichuan dialect (the province where the plot takes place). And despite the role swap Wang Minhui used Sichuan as well.
⬆from Zhu Jiayan's weibo
⬆ @/渲染KL不加糖_瑾家 posted this picture on weibo with caption: 'Chicken run'. And I think it's the funniest joke ever ><
Check the replies for both videos 💙🧡 And I hope you'll have just as good time watching it as I did ^0^
March 23rd, night: Shu Rongbo, Wu Yihan, Qian Dongyue, Zou Ziyue, Xu Fangxing
The only photos from that day were posted by the actors themselves >< Seems like they were having fun taking photos of each other ^^'
⬆ those 2 photos are especially dear to me, bless you Zou Ziyue for the one with matching outfits 🙏 the other one was posted by wyh first and the actors were being cute asf in the comments <3 like:
srb: 'wuhu wúhú [tornado emoji]', wyh: 'brother bobi', Li Zexi: 'You two look so good ❤', zzy:'I think my photos are better'
plsss 😭💖
March 24th, noon: Ji Xiaokun, Guo Hongxu, Cai Lu
Guo Hongxu came back from a health break ^^ There are quite a few clips from that day, check them out if you wanna see ghx get stuck on 'Dive back in time' lyrics and jxk reaction ><'
⬆ these photos were taken by Ji Xiaokun with a camera from the audience ^^
Look at this dorky sd photo 🥺 💛
March 24th, night: Zhao Muzhi, Zhu Hanbin, Wu Hanglu
I strongly recommend you watch this encore! It has:
CXS looses rock, paper, scissors despite cheating and bluescreens >< LG uhh kinda...caresses his face to make him snap back to reality.
he's locked in
Oh yes, Zhu Hanbin did whole encore wearing his shirt inside out >< Wu Hanglu points it out after they're done with last song.
*btw I need to check, how do we write Muzhi's surname? Bc atp I've seen 3 versions: 'Cao', 'Zhao' and 'Tsao'. I use 'Zhao', Sael uses 'Cao' and on weibo I've seen a meme signed with 'Tsao'. WHICH ONE IS IT?
Anyway, he did a lot of cute and funny faces, but I couldn't fit them all in this post ;w; I'll post them later~
On his weibo, Shu Rongbo posted photos he gathered throuough 2023, performing in LC. Here they are :>
shiguang under the christmas tree 🥺
Some more photos, that were posted for Ji Xiaokun's birthday (by actors, fans or himself):
Not musical relatad. but he posted a really heartfelt message on his weibo acc on his birthday. Self-reflecting on personal growth and work experience... it really made me appreciate him from a different angle, so I recommend you check his weibo profile if you're interested ^^ he's a very sweet guy <3
As always, we had Deng Xianling being adorable 😊💗💖
And Teng Chunpeng being goofy ahh
🙏
To see bonus stage door photos of Teng Chunpeng carrying a comically large backpack , you can check my twitter @niebo_asdfghjkl (I couldn't fit them anywhere)
I've used up most of his photos in the last post abt him ><' But you can check Encore Musical's weibo for a celebratory video with him (it's v sweet).
About the first photo, he took it himself with a camera from the audience :'> 2nd is from musical's weibo (pls look at his cake, it has a camera 🥺). 3rd is from Cai Lu's weibo 🙏
Lineup today was: Cai Lu, Guo Hongxu, Ji Xiaokun, Liao Jingyuan, Song Yuanming
⬆Song Yuanming (he debuted some time ago but I had no time to actually show him, imsorry man)
(last 5 pics are from different stage, with Deng Xianling)
⬆I've stumbled upon a profile of Guo Hongxu's friend (?), also an actor, who interacted with some of his pictures and thanks to that I found this stunning set of behind the scenes photos from the promotional photoshoot they did before the premiere. What's interesting, in the last picture you can see the actors were actually using Link Click artbook as a reference :>
I didn't realise earlier, but February 10th will be the Chinese New Years. That's why some actors are posting photos now, to sum up their year of work ^^
⬆this was posted by Zhu Jiayan
⬆these are from Liao Jingyuan
⬆these are from a bit older post from Cai Lu (today she posted a clip of shiguang playing the hand slap game, so check her weibo profile!)
⬆this one is out of context set from Wu Hanglu, but I add it bc it has Shu Rongbo and Wang Yifei too >< aand I think the other girl is Yu Mengying (?)
⬇A hug from 240128 performance with Wang Minhui and Teng Chunpeng
A person who was in the audience that day said on twt (@/friendsnevertre): 'TengChunpeng cried a lot (during the earthquake main plot part, they do that) and was still crying at the encore, then he asked WangMinhui lg for a hug and WangMinhui lg kept patting and comforting him[...]' they're so sweet :'>
A throwback to Cao Muzhi's birthday:
And Zhu Hanbin LG in glasses 😔👌✨
(oop i still have more glasses pics, gotta make more posts)
From recent official announcements: Encore Musicals posted a video where all CXS actors answer the question 'If there was a Time Photo Studio in real life, what task would you entrust them with?'.
Today I haphazardly made a machine translation thread of their answers. It's a great material to compare the actors personalities, so please check it out.
Links in replies: video of cxs actors answering the question + link to my twt thread with 'translations', cq&wyh encore
April 5th, noon: Ji Xiaokun, Guo Hongxu, Qiang Dongyue
Not much coverage bc there was another performance on a same day that drew more attention...
April 5th, night: Cai Qi, Wu Yihan, Qian Anqi
It was their 2nd performance together and it felt more relaxed this time🙏It was fun and playful encore ^^
They shoved each other during 'Pursuers of light'. For 'You can forget about it' XiaoJuan piglet made a comeback 🐷 just to get slapped by both lg and cxs ><' Wu Yihan laughs a lot 💙first at Cai Qi hitting poor XiaoJuan, then at rock, paper, scissors match.
He does his trick of making the signs while keeping his hand low, so cxs doesn't notice. But he looses anyway and chokes on a laugh.
(part 1 of Wed-Sat performances overview but it's mostly Shu Rongbo bc he appeared thrice)
Translating the schedule has been lifechanging 🙇♂️ I feel so stupid for not using it earlier ><
Here's the main lineups from recent plays. Ik Guo Hongxu apeared 3 times too, but he was a focus of last posts, so let's move on to other actors~
Feb 28th Shu Rongbo, Guo Hongxu, Qian Anqi:
I'm not sure why but imo he looked particularly gorgeous that day, I think it's the slightly stronger eyeshadow? maybe?? (hard to tell bc there weren't many photos of him, since it was LG's actor birthday)
Feb 29th Ji Xiaokun, Guo Hongxu:
I'll link the adorable clip where they 'Oi!' at each other before 'Dive back in time'. You need to see his brilliant smile on a video 🧡
March 1st Shu Rongbo, Wu Yihan, Qian Anqi:
I dunno guys... I think Wu Yihan got a new wig 🤔 hmm