I think it's because Li Yugang performs so well.
"Zhaojun Out of the Seaside" is a poetic song-and-dance drama that Li Yugang spent six years to create, in which he stars as Zhaojun and tells the story of Zhaojun's journey out of the Seaside using various artistic languages such as music and dance. The show premiered in Beijing in 2015, and a few years later, Li Yugang has revamped it, upgrading the music, choreography and costumes to retell the legend of the Four Beauties.
Li Yugang for "Zhaojun out of the plug" in the Department of the work, he walked again when Zhaojun walked the road, went to Zhaojun site. Mr. Li Yugang is very fond of Zhaojun this great woman, he is with a kind of respect, admiration for the emotion to create this stage play. Not only the costumes or makeup, choreography, lighting, are all wonderful, even say shocking!
While the stage is a minimalist style, it is more reflective of the Chinese art of white space (I studied design), for example, a corner of the palace wall on the screen in the palace grudges, giving people a kind of cold and let people have unlimited reverie. Besides the set, the most outstanding part of the show was the singing of the opera singers, which couldn't have been better, from Zhaojun's and Chu's lively four seasons' speeches to the tense confrontation between Emperor Han Yuan Di and Shan Yu, which was rendered by the actors in a great way. And of course there are the dancers, who also do a great job of portraying the Han court and the Xiongnu in the West, and can make you feel like a theater very quickly. This is a play that will take you back to the past, it is beautiful and rounded, embracing the beauty of the Orient on the inside and the national sentiment on the outside.
I personally think it's really perfect, whether it's the lighting, props, costumes can give full marks. Mr. Li Yugang is not playing Zhaojun on stage, but a Zhaojun soul interpreting his own life.