Romantic drama

The pandemic has made traveling difficult. This has pushed Chinese productions to meet domestic audience demand, and the French musical production company granted the copyright for a Chinese edition.

In 2012, Shanghai Culture Square introduced the French musical in Shanghai, when 20 performances massively impressed audiences, and it went on three rounds of tours in China in the two following years.

Fei attributes the musical's success in China to the "great literary classic and tragic love story between two beautiful young people, and more importantly, the strong emotional expressions in the production coincide with Chinese audiences' aesthetic expectations for musical theater".

The venue has successfully presented a variety of musical productions from abroad in the past 10 years, and Fei says Presgurvic's Romeo and Juliet was the most suitable French production to be translated into Chinese as the show's "songs, dances and performances, all score high".

The Shanghai venue and Beijing-based Joyway Culture Co jointly kicked off the Chinese production last year, soon after acquiring the copyright from the French production team.