Tainan Guanmiao Baodong Elementary School staged the 100th anniversary commemorative musical "Rumor Man-Eating Bird" at the Quiren Cultural Center, which received enthusiastic response.

(Photo by reporter Liu Wanjun)

[Reporter Liu Wanjun/Tainan Report] Baodong Elementary School in Guanmiao District, Tainan City celebrated its 100th anniversary. Today (14th) and tomorrow (15th) the musical "Rumor Man-eating Bird" will be performed at the Quiren Cultural Center. From the creation to the performance, the school teachers led the students to complete it together, which received enthusiastic response, and the public knocked on the bowl and looked forward to the alternates entering the venue to watch.

Baodong Elementary School’s musical performance started preparations more than a year ago. The participating students range from grades 1 to 6, and most of them have never received professional theater and voice training.

Under the guidance of the teachers and the working team, the students started from scratch, including script creation, rehearsal, singing practice, drama composition, props and scenery production. Today they stood on the stage and showed their results. The wonderful performance was full of applause.

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Zhang Yinqian, the principal of Baodong Elementary School, said that the musical performance has been postponed twice due to the epidemic, which led to the long preparation period, the graduation of the performing students, and the lack of funds. It was once considered to be terminated, but the teachers and students of the school and Xiaolushu Education With the persistence and assistance of the Cultural Association, they finally performed on stage today and tomorrow. A total of 1,800 tickets were available for the 3 performances. Tickets were all sold out on the first anniversary of the open call, and many people expressed that they had to wait for alternates.

Zhang Yinqian pointed out that she hopes that through performances, children can walk out of the campus, confidently share the joy of growth with the audience on the stage, broaden their horizons, and surpass themselves, so that audiences from all walks of life can see the infinite possibilities of children, and arouse the public's interest in art education in rural areas. attention.

The plot of "Rumor Man-eating Bird" is based on the pineapple industry in Guanmiao District where Baodong Elementary School is located. In the simple village where pineapple is planted, the villagers are looking forward to the upcoming harvest, but they find that "birds of scissors" are watching In order to protect the crops that the households have worked so hard to take care of, the adults asked to pray for blessings, set up bird-proof nets, and prepared sickles, long sticks and other defensive tools. A group of children secretly made plans to go to the hills at night to explore the habitat of the bird monster tribe. Therefore, the Army Mountain Expedition Team is formed, and they are about to retrieve their lost truths.

The teachers and students of Guanmiao Baodong Elementary School in Tainan started from scratch. The teachers and students jointly created and performed a musical commemorating the 100th anniversary of the school, which received enthusiastic response.

(Photo by reporter Liu Wanjun)