百老汇升起新锐阳光女导演

    不是每个人找来一帮百老汇演员，戴上二十世纪八十年代的假发，就能鼓捣出值得观看的玩意。你得有克里斯汀•亨吉那样的天分。她执导了轻松温馨的百老汇音乐剧《摇滚年代》（Rock of Ages），在2009年获得五项托尼奖（相当于美国电视界的奥斯卡奖——译注）提名（包括最佳音乐剧和最佳音乐剧导演）。她现在年仅34岁，年纪轻轻就已经声名鹊起，。

    《财富》杂志（Fortune）在其新作品制作现场采访了亨吉。这幕新剧《冲浪：音乐剧》（SURF The Musical）使用沙滩小子的音乐，今年6月即将在拉斯维加斯上演。她分享了成功制作音乐剧的诀窍。

    《财富》：百老汇成功制作的秘诀是什么？

    克里斯汀•亨吉：一定要相信自己的直觉。雇人干活时，要注意他们是否与你合拍。有时，他马上就能和你互动起来，立马就能知道，这人懂你的意思。

    然后你试图尽可能多地创造这种一拍即合的情况。实际上，我今天和布景师说话时问他：“哦，你知道我想要什么时候的景象？我想要天空还没有完全黑下来，将将开始变成紫色。” 他回答：“你想要天空有点奇幻的色彩。”我说：“太对了，那就是我想要的！”

    你年纪轻轻就在戏剧界取得很大成就。你觉得你什么时候开始相信你的导演直觉？

    我记得我那时二十二、三岁的样子，刚刚从研究生院提前毕业，正在完成我的首个专业音乐剧，叫做《赤裸》（Bare）。之前我做的不过都是些小成本制作。

    我记得我坐在那里，正在干活，然后我好像听到身体里有个声音在说“相信自己的直觉。”

    我觉得这可能要归结到那个很大的概念：合一，也就是说，在内心深处，人们或许都是一样的。我们都知道人们的品味可能不同，但我总是相信，如果我对作品自我感觉良好，其他人也一样会喜欢。

    那种感觉一定挺好。

    别人告诉我，我的商业感觉很好，那是什么意思呢？称赞？还是批评？但我认为，那是说能感动我的东西，同样也能感动大多数人。

    Not all of us could get a horde of Broadway actors wearing 1980s wigs to do anything worth watching. No, it takes a special kind of talent to be Kristin Hanggi, who directed the feel-good Broadway musical "Rock of Ages," which was nominated for five Tony awards in 2009 (including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical). She's young to have come so far so fast -- Hanggi is only 34 years old.

    Fortune spoke with Hanggi while she was on the set of her new production, "SURF The Musical," which features the music of the Beach Boys and opens this coming June in Las Vegas. She explains what it takes to make a musical work.

    Fortune: What's involved in pulling off a Broadway production?

    Kristin Hanggi: Definitely trusting your instinct. When you're hiring people for a project, you pay attention to how they connect to you. Sometimes, there's a back-and-forth that starts to happen immediately, where you know this person gets what you're doing.

    Then you try to create those clicks in as many places as possible. In fact, I was talking to a set designer today, and I said, 'Ooh, you know what time I want it? I want the sky when it isn't fully dark yet, and it's just starting to turn purple.' And he goes, 'you want a little magic in your sky,' and I said, 'yes, that's exactly what I want!'

    You're quite young to have gotten so far in theater. When would you say you first began to trust your instincts as a director?

    I remember being 22 or 23 and I had just graduated from graduate school a little early and I was doing my first professional production, a musical called Bare. Everything else that I had done before had been shoestring.

    I remember sitting there as we were creating it, and I felt this, I don't know, voice inside of me that said 'trust your instincts.'

    I almost feel like it comes down to this big concept of oneness, that deep down, people are all the same? We all know that taste does vary, but I always feel like, hands down, if I'm enjoying myself, I think that means that other people will too.

    That must come in handy.

    I've been told before that I have really commercial tastes, and what is that? Is that a compliment? Is that a criticism? But you know, I think it means that what I'm responding to, the majority of people will respond to as well.