21/8/2008

难道陈楚惠演艺的真的已经炉火纯青

1973年，新天彩潮剧团第三度南来，只少了一个陈楚惠（她息影剧坛，从商去了）；于是，观众就如一湖死水，激不起一点涟漪，票房纪录空前惨淡，连演了十几场，主办者眼看血本无归，却又欲罢不能；最的，还是重金商请陈楚惠从香港赶来助阵，才得扭转乾坤，挽回危局。陈楚惠又以《潇湘秋雨》、《红书宝剑》等剧目再掀高潮，往观者络绎不绝，由于向隅者多，竟还时时出现一些“隐形市场”炒卖入场券的事件，陈楚蕙因此被誉为“东南亚潮剧小生王”，“新天彩潮剧团”也获得了“香港长寿戏霸”的称号。

难道陈楚惠的演艺真的已经炉火纯青、超凡入圣了吗？她究竟有什么魅力，能够使戏迷为她而迷死？其实说穿了，也没有什么稀奇。首先，自从有了潮剧电景，陈楚惠主演的影片最多，是诸多潮剧电影明星中较为突出的一个，给观众留下了深刻的良好印象；其次，她对人态度友善，没有大牌演员倨傲放肆的气势，因她人缘很好，几度来新演出，接触面都非常广，不论富商巨贾、贩夫走卒，她都能坦诚相待，没有势力、贪婪或虚伪造作的恶习。凡是跟她接触过的观众，很快地便成为她的戏学，与她交往则引以为荣，视为乐事。所以，她的剧艺造诣虽非冠压群芳，却因戏迷对她有亲切感而建立了广泛的观众基础，这就是这所以称为"迷死"。

After the formation of 金鹰潮剧团, 新荣和兴潮剧团 was at the verge of folding up. Not only the key leads were gone, the shows they put up were very limited. If I recalled correctly, they invited one of the former lead actresses 陈巧娇 to perform a few months. That did not not create any significant impact as the shows like 女状元 and 渔女鸣冤 (I hope I remembered the titles correctly) did not excite the audience much.

In the early 80’s, another opera troupe 新一天彩潮剧团 got some financial backings and strengthen their pool of actors and actresses including inviting 细妹 who had quitted from 新荣和兴潮剧团 to come back on stage. They put up two performances, 借剑 and 秦原闯道. At that time, 细妹 had the habit of forgetting the lyrics and had to depend on the co-actors to help her with the singing. Some audience said they would not mind as Soy Muay had not been performing for many years. Later, she joined 金鹰潮剧团 as one of the many 小生. I saw her pefroemd in 柴房会 and 一门三进士 at Whompoa market and 刘明珠 in Ang Mo Kio.

陈楚蕙 and 张应炎 has also paired many times for the show 借剑. Besides the LP recording, 新天彩潮剧团 also performed this show in Thailand in the 1980's and staged the same performance in year 2004.

In the 90’s, there were two sub-standards opera troupes that were invited to perform mostly during the lunar 7th month hungry ghost festival. 正天香潮剧团 would perform 碧玉簪 (The Jade Hairpin) every now and then. That 小生 was actually the one who played the role as

汉末年，刘秀与姐湖阳公主，征讨王莽，误中圈套， 驸马战死。 村姑郑三姐送饭， 并引路突围， 湖阳公主姐弟感恩， 以剑穗赠三姐。 刘秀登基， 湖阳公主欲招大司空宋弘为驸马， 怎料宋弘夫妻糟糠情深， 再三相拒。郭皇后姐弟从中作梗，私遣宋夫人回乡，中途被马忠所救。刘秀金殿下旨完婚，宋弘再次拒婚并骂刘秀不义。 汉王大怒，立斩宋弘。 宋夫人惊闻恶讯，立刻与马忠将军赶往法场，见宋弘最后一面。

汉末年，刘秀与姐湖阳公主，征讨王莽，误中圈套， 驸马战死。 村姑郑三姐送饭， 并引路突围， 湖阳公主姐弟感恩， 以剑穗赠三姐。 刘秀登基， 湖阳公主欲招大司空宋弘为驸马， 怎料宋弘夫妻糟糠情深， 再三相拒。郭皇后姐弟从中作梗，私遣宋夫人回乡，中途被马忠所救。刘秀金殿下旨完婚，宋弘再次拒婚并骂刘秀不义。 汉王大怒，立斩宋弘。 宋夫人惊闻恶讯，立刻与马忠将军赶往法场，见宋弘最后一面。