Chapter 573 The Purpose of Interns

The bus took Jiang Qi and his group to the hotel. Wang Pingxiu accompanied Jiang Qi to the hotel to put their luggage, while other members of the troupe went to the theater to rehearse.

Jiang Qi came to the hotel and found that Wang Pingxiu had not only prepared fruits, but also made hot tea in advance. When Jiang Qi arrived at the hotel, the hot tea was warm and suitable for drinking.

The slippers are thick-soled non-slip slippers specially purchased at the mall. The shower gel and shampoo in the bathroom are also replaced by Jiang Qi's favorite brands. The bathtub is also prepared in advance with a series of lotions and lotions that Jiang Qi will most likely not use. Skin care products.

Even the desk, which is theoretically used for working, is filled with all kinds of snacks, which can be said to be fully prepared.

Wang Pingxiu even told the hotel in advance to prepare two breakfasts, Chinese and Western, and would deliver them to the room as soon as Jiang Qi arrived.

Jiang Qi can only say:

Xiao Wangzi, it's a pity that you don't become the general manager.

After Jiang Qi had a simple breakfast and rested for a while, Wang Pingxiu accompanied Jiang Qi to the Transmission Theater.

Chuanyin Theater is one of the largest theaters in Shangdu.

Shangdu has a strong opera atmosphere, and theater business is generally good. Many theaters have their own troupes, and there is more than one theater with a thousand people.

Today, Jiang Qi can no longer remember how he chose this theater last year. He only remembers that it was recommended by a certain theater owner.

Last year, the theaters for the national tour of "The Princess" were basically selected based on recommendations from others.

Ge Hong of Fangyuan Theater recommended a theater in Jinling, the owner of Jinling Theater recommended a theater in Hangzhou, and the owner of Hangcheng Theater recommended a theater in Peiping. Everyone continued to recommend, just like beating a drum to spread flowers.

As long as there are no mistakes during the tour and there are no tricks when dividing the revenue, Jiang Qi will give priority to the theaters that he cooperated with last year this year.

Since the initiator of this drum-beating and flower-passing event is Ge Hong, most of the theaters that cooperate with the amusement park troupe have something to do with Ge Hong.

This means that these theaters are similar to the Fangyuan Theater in a sense. They are all famous local theaters, but they are definitely not the best one or two.

Jiang Qi was stunned when he came to the door of Chuanyin Theater.

Jiang Qi, who had only seen the pictures but not the real thing, saw that the entrance of the theater was slightly tattered, the nails on the phonetic signboard seemed not to be firmly fixed, and the sign looked a little skewed and sad, and he realized deeply what it meant that the pictures did not match the real thing.

According to the brightness of the pictures, the photos of the facade that Boss Liu provided to Jiang Qi were taken at least five years ago.

"The Sound Transmission Theater... has a sense of the times." Jiang Qi said.

Wang Pingxiu nodded and said with great admiration: "Boss, you are really discerning, nothing can escape your eyes. Transmission Theater is indeed the most ancient theater here, with a history of more than 50 years since the city was founded in the last century. . It has been renovated several times. Among them, the Thousand-seat Theater was built 20 years ago. Although the facilities are a bit old and the lighting and stage are not as good as other theaters in all aspects, it is more famous. Many old guests who go to the theater recognize it. !”

After Wang Pingxiu said this, Jiang Qi suddenly looked at Chuanyin Theater with admiration.

If it had a history of 50 years, it would not be considered dilapidated as it is now. At most, it could only be considered as having no money for a complete overhaul.

"According to your instructions, our tour in Shangdu will be 7 performances of "Mother Picking Girl" + 1 performance of "The Legend of the Princess". After the tour ends in Peiping at the end of the month, we will cancel the bonus "The Legend of the Princess" tour. Most of the group members will return to the amusement park, Xinghua will take over, and the theater will continue to operate.

Last year, all the members of the "Emperor" tour went out because "Emperor" needed so many actors. It was a lively drama. Even Leader Feng, who had not been on stage for several years, could get a few lines. The rest of the majors Not to mention actors.

But this year's version of "The Mulberry Picking Girl" is different. The cast of "The Mulberry Picking Girl" is quite streamlined, and more than half of the people in the troupe can't even be seen as handymen.

This tour, the reason why the troupe is still fully mobilized as before is entirely because Jiang Qi was worried that "The Mulberry Picking Girl" would not do well at the box office, so he made two preparations in advance.

Acted in "The Mulberry Picking Girl" and presented "The Legend of the Princess".

If "The Mulberry Picking Girl" does well at the box office, then we will only add "The Legend of the Queen" as a bonus. The theater will not charge a cent for the box office of "The Princess", and it will all be treated as a thank you to the major theaters for their support in the past two years.

If "The Mulberry Picking Girl" does not do well at the box office and tickets for subsequent shows cannot be sold, it doesn't matter, we have plan B.

Let "The Legend of the Princess" return for a limited time!

And to show sincerity, the box office of "The Princess", which returned for a limited time, only received 70% of the original share.

In Feng Ling's words, if her new play is so bad at the box office that she needs to rely on last year's hit movie to save her reputation, and has to rest on her laurels to save face, then she has no shame in taking the box office share, and her share will be compensated for the theater. To warn myself.

However, of course, this kind of welfare contract amusement park cannot sign with every theater. It can only be found in major theaters in big cities such as Fangyuan Theater and Transsion Theater, which are among the top ticket warehouse cities with previous cooperation.

As for speaking skills...

Don't ask, the question is that Boss Jiang loves art, supports art, and does not want to see the owners of major theaters suffer losses.

Asking is about loyalty and giving benefits. It doesn't matter if you suffer, the most important thing is to let your family members get welfare.

If the family could see Boss Jiang's sacrifice and work harder to promote it, then Boss Jiang would have no regrets.

Originally, Jiang Qi planned to wait until the welfare performance of "The Princess" was over, recall most of the troupe members who did not need to continue touring, and let them become full-time performers in Taiping Town for a short period of time, and arrange a few new small plays during the non-performance period.

The big plays in the theater can be updated every year, but the small plays that sell tea tickets have to be updated all the time.

Originally, the audience did not like to watch small plays, and there were not many serious audience members who bought tea tickets to watch the play. If new ones are not released regularly to add freshness to the audience, the little drama will really be a bonus.

Jiang Qi believed that his plan was good, and it used every employee reasonably, and even considered Wang Xinghua, who could theoretically take several months off.

After most of the members came back, Wang Xinghua had something to do.

As an opera lover, she is not good at singing, but she is first-class at listening to operas, she is not good at directing, and she has no problem finding faults.

Asking Wang Xinghua to give Feng Ling guidance is just trying to make a fool of himself.

But if Wang Xinghua is asked to give guidance to other members of the troupe, she can still give some pointers. Even if Wang Xinghua really doesn't know how to coach, she is at least the manager.

As all workers know, you may not listen to what the manager says makes sense, but if the manager says something unreasonable, you will definitely think he is farting. Theoretically, no matter what the manager says, it will not have much impact on the final results, because most managers do not do the work, especially the work of the lower-level employees.

As a result, it was well planned and Wang Pingxiu came.

When Wang Pingxiu heard this, he thought it was not possible.

How can we just rehearse and perform without performing? How can any troupe not open the door to sing and entertain guests when the actor is gone? Which troupe points to a red actor for dinner? What if the red actor marries a wealthy family and becomes a concubine? Don’t the remaining people have to drink from the northwest wind? !

No, absolutely not!

The theater wants to be ranked first in annual revenue. Half of the people are just paid and don’t work. How can they be ranked first? !

Haven't you seen how the Magic Academy next door is rolled up? They are a magical academy from a different world, but for the sake of performance, they even use food trucks on the technology side, and even use three of them at one time!

If you don’t roll it up, how can you compare it with the next door!

Roll, must roll!

Not only do we need to rehearse and sing operas, but we also need to recruit people, expand, have new faces, and create new revenue directions.

Then Wang Pingxiu took out the business card he got on the day of the premiere of "The Mulberry Picking Girl".

If you want to ask who impressed Wang Pingxiu the most on the day of the premiere, it must be Yang Qing.

Wang Pingxiu liked this intern so much.

You are nimble, clever, and quick-thinking, and you don’t have to pay for it, and you don’t even have to take care of your food!

Everyone pays for meals out of their own pockets.

Wang Pingxiu wished he could recruit a hundred and eighty such interns.

When Yin Fei wanted to hire interns at the theater, Wang Xinghua was only willing to accept eight because Wang Xinghua didn't know how to teach. Feng Ling did teach some lessons with her juniors and juniors, but all she knew was the teaching method of using a stick to create an advanced apprentice mode. She couldn't teach without a stick, and she couldn't teach well if the diameter of the stick was less than 8cm. Moreover, it was impossible for Feng Ling to teach students. She was too busy with her own work, so she had no time to teach others.

The previous interns were all led by Team Leader Feng. He was in a management position and had time to take care of the interns. The interns did learn something under Leader Feng, otherwise Yang Qing would not have tried so hard to come back quickly, for fear that the theater would forget her.

Team leader Feng can barely manage 8 interns, but not 18.

Not to mention 80, he can't even master the art of shadow cloning.

Just because Leader Feng can't do it doesn't mean that Wang Pingxiu can't do it.

As we all know, Wang Pingxiu's ability to teach people is not bad. He was just unlucky, and he didn't meet a talent like Feng Ling who, for God's sake, was following behind with a bowl of food. The Hongjiao he brought out was limited in his development in his own profession, and could only open up new paths, on the concubine track next door. Work hard.

Wang Pingxiu said that as long as you take care of your own food and accommodation without being paid, and work seriously and responsibly, there are plenty of internship places.

Don't worry about no one to take care of you. Wang Pingxiu, who has been a professional guide for 30 years, will personally serve you.

Those who perform well during the internship will also have the opportunity to become apprentices and become reserve members of the troupe with food and accommodation provided but no salary. There are many opportunities to be on stage, so it’s better to act than to be excited!

At the beginning of the tour, Wang Pingxiu contacted the teachers who gave him business cards and wanted to recruit interns to the theater, and recruited 28 interns in one go.

Because the troupe was going on tour, Wang Pingxiu gave the interns a two-month preparation period to handle their affairs at hand and report to the amusement park in early June.

Yang Qing, whom Wang Pingxiu admires the most, has already taken care of the matters at hand, took the initiative to report, joined the tour team early, and even got into the role of a wordless court lady.

It is said that Yang Qing's aunt Yang Chaoge, Manager Yang, was so excited when she saw Yang Qing on stage in Theater No. 1 at the Fangyuan Theater that she cried with joy. She sent numerous WeChat posts and showed off in the theater for a week, which made Manager Zhu angry. I took a week's sick leave. The content of the sick leave was that the liver qi was stagnated in the heart and I needed to rest at home.

Yang Qing's case inspired other interns, and everyone reported in advance that when Jiang Qi ran away, all 28 interns had arrived. Since there was really nothing to do in the theater, these 28 people were assigned to work as the atmosphere team in Taiping Town. Later, the art museum was short of a few NPCs who could sing and borrowed a few more.

It is said that these 28 interns were extremely moved and felt that the amusement park was really good to them. They came in advance to avoid them being unsuitable, and they were assigned to other departments to adapt to the work first.

Jiang Qi thought about the interns.

"Master Wang," Jiang Qi said, "I'm not questioning your ability. Interns are cheap and easy to use, so I can understand why you couldn't help but recruit a few more. I didn't agree with you when you said you wanted to recruit these interns. Those who object, whether it is for the theater or human relations, this is necessary.”

"That's it...now that the interns are on duty, what are you going to ask them to do?"

Serving tea and water + running errands + joining the troupe’s daily training?

Now that Feng Ling is away, the training effect will definitely not be as good as before.

And 28 interns...

The conscience of heaven and earth, all the formal employees of the troupe, including the accompanist, are only 37!

How much water do these 37 people need to drink a day for the interns to serve tea and water?

"It's useful, everything is useful!" Wang Pingxiu wanted to explain, but Boss Liu from the Transmission Theater came.

Boss Liu came here specially from outside when he heard that Jiang Qi was coming to the theater. He walked very fast and there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.

"Boss Jiang, I haven't seen you for a few months, and you are even more handsome!" Boss Liu rushed up and gave Jiang Qi a bear hug, "I heard that you came here overnight, Boss Jiang, and I thought you would have to rest for half a day before coming to the theater. I was thinking of picking up the slack for you, Boss Jiang, in the evening, but I didn’t expect that Boss Jiang, you were so concerned about work that you came here so early in the morning.”

Jiang Qi glanced at the 10:15 displayed on his mobile phone and determined that Boss Liu was also a qualified boss who could talk to people and tell ghosts.

"No, it's not as big as Boss Liu. Your family has a big business, and the theaters you run are among the best in the city. Just now, Wang Xianpai told me that all the tickets for "The Mulberry Picking Girl" were sold out early, thanks to your hard work in promoting it, Boss Liu. Ah!" Jiang Qi also showed the same enthusiastic smile.

"My little bit of publicity is not worth mentioning. The main thing is that it is a free show. Everyone is eagerly waiting to see it, and they all hope that the troupe will perform more performances."

It can be seen that Wang Pingxiu's propaganda about Bai Bai has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people here in Shangdu, and Boss Liu has changed his name to Feng Ling Bai Bai.

After some brief greetings, Boss Liu also led Jiang Qi to his office.

As soon as he entered the office, Boss Liu's state changed, switching from welcoming guests warmly to begging for help and rubbing his hands like a fly.

"Boss Jiang, I heard that the theater in your amusement park has been empty during this period."

Jiang Qi:?

"I also heard that the reason why Manager Wang of your theater company did not come with you on the tour this time is because your theater has recruited a new group of interns, and Manager Wang is busy training the interns."

Jiang Qi:? ?

"Manager Wang is really young and promising. Not only is he good at writing scripts, but he is also a great teacher. He is so sharp that he can tell at a glance what's wrong with the actors."

Jiang Qi:? ? ?

Jiang Qi looked at Wang Pingxiu, his eyes filled with questions: Why did you start spreading rumors about Wang Xinghua?

Even if you are showing off your daughter, you can’t do it out of thin air!

Boss Liu rubbed his hands in excitement.

"It's like this, Boss Jiang, I have a merciless request." Boss Liu knows that there are not so many intrigues in the mall. At critical moments, sincerity is always the surefire way to ask for help from others. "Our theater also has a Criticize actors.”

"There are many new actors. There are also many experienced actors."

"The actors in our theater are divided into groups A and B. Normally, group A takes the stage and group B is a standby."

"I was thinking that the theater over there happens to be empty during this period. Can the troupe of our theater take advantage of this gap to go over and learn, exchange and perform."

"Even if the types of dramas are different, it doesn't hinder learning and communication!"

Jiang Qi seemed to know what Wang Pingxiu was up to.

"It's like this, Boss Liu, the theater tickets in our amusement park are sold very cheaply. We sell tea tickets in the afternoon and theater tickets in the evening. The cheapest ticket is only 20. If you are willing to come and exchange performances, Of course I'm happy to do it, don't worry about food and accommodation, I'll take care of it all, just the box office for this show... it may really be nothing."

Boss Liu slapped his thigh: "Oh, how can we talk about money when we are performing for an exchange?"

"Boss Jiang, that's what I think. Members of Group A, if you want, let them sing the big show."

"Members of Group B, just show in the afternoon."

"If you are willing, let's communicate for two weeks first. It is mainly for communication and nothing else. There is no money!"

Wang Pingxiu said at the right time: "Boss, I seem to have left the fruit I brought for you outside just now. I'll go get it for you."

After that, Wang Pingxiu sneaked out of the office decisively, leaving plenty of space for Jiang Qi and Boss Liu to discuss business alone.

Jiang Qi: "...Let's talk?"

Boss Liu: "! Let's talk!" (End of chapter)