The Lead
主角
多年前，县剧团招学员，在团里任司鼓的胡三元替外甥女报名，将年少的她改名易秦娥从家乡带出来学唱秦腔。因胡三元造成的事故，易秦娥受到影响，学习秦腔之路屡遭波折。但她凭借刻苦的劲头和自身的条件获得了老艺人的赏识和热情帮扶。她的“破蒙戏”在乡村舞台上音惊四座，后改名忆秦娥被调入省秦腔团。 她勤学苦练，在台上的演出屡获成功。历经波折，她终于明白对秦腔艺术的传承才是她作为“主角”的真正意义，她将继续培养新一代秦腔舞台上亮丽的主角。
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Do you know what I'm thinking?
This is no time for nitpicking.
this is called political consciousness.
We must never lose our political consciousness.
what good are you anyway? Go and invite those three veteran artists
We don't even know if he's dead or alive.
Isn't an opera excerpt still an opera?
Better than having nothing to perform. Right?
A mere bit-part player from there could play the lead here.
We have only two lead performers.
Mi Lan's busy getting married, right?
And let's talk about the greenhorns in the trainee class.
Sure, they've trained for years.
But they can't carry the show.
What matters in the old opera? It's the performer's real skill.
Troupe Leader, I won't say anything so discouraging.
Where will we get the opera costumes?
It's been over a year since we had any shows to perform.
we should just fold and disband.
That's not very fair to say.
Why are you being so sneaky? I have a surprise. Come.
I'm tired of your games.
Think about it carefully. The troupe's future is at stake.
This is all we have left.