Behind the stage of this club is the backstage area. In addition to dressing rooms and lounges, there is also a rehearsal room with an area of ​​more than 80 square meters.

The heating systems in the smaller rooms at the back have been installed, but it seems that the heating system in the main hall at the front is still not fully installed.

It seems that only two or three sets of radiators are missing, and the installation should be completed this afternoon.

"The sound equipment should be installed by tomorrow, and the site will be officially handed over the day after tomorrow," Han Chui assured, patting his chest.

The only downside of this small theater is that it's not located on the main street, but on a side street. To get to the main street from here, you have to go down a side street first.

This is not surprising. If it were located on the main street, it wouldn't be abandoned now; it would have been rented out to shops long ago.

The renovated small theater has 700 seats, and the ticket price is set at five yuan.

This will become the training and performance base for these bands.

Liang Liang planned to assign someone to be in charge here and put forward his three rules.

No negative political messages are allowed to be spread here, no playing around with fruit is allowed, and no one is allowed to touch the leaves.

If you want to come here for training and performances, you must abide by these three rules.

On the evening of November 8th, the second performance of the Lianwan City Rock Concert was held at the Lianwan City Gymnasium.

Just like the first show, the second show was also a sell-out, with nearly half of the audience members being repeat viewers.

Liang Liang's main purpose in organizing this concert was to allow the Han Chuang Band and Xu Wei to accumulate experience in performing in large venues, and also to test the waters for the Blue Shark Band's first performance of their national tour next year.

Finally, it's time to advertise for the soon-to-open maritime mini-theater.

Immediately printed brochures about the small theater were distributed to every audience member entering the stadium, allowing them to quickly understand the theater's location, business nature, ticket pricing, and other relevant information.

These objectives have now been largely achieved.

Through these two performances, Xu Wei and the Han Chuang Band gained considerable confidence in performing at EF's large venues.

Many viewers also learned about the soon-to-open maritime mini-theater.

The Haiyun Small Theater and Haiyun Dance Hall are located in two districts of Lianwan City, several dozen kilometers apart. This allows people who live far from the Haiyun Dance Hall to conveniently go to the Haiyun Small Theater to watch wonderful performances.

After the concert, the small theater underwent inspection and was accepted.

It was officially named the Maritime Theater.

After two days of preparation, the small theater officially opened for business on the evening of November 10th.

Those two rock concerts in Lianwan City laid a solid foundation and further expanded the rock music community in Lianwan City, which is good news for the small theater's business.

The ticket price for the small theater was very affordable; five yuan was not considered a high price at the end of 1994.

Cigarettes all went up in price that year, and cigarettes that cost three or five cents were basically extinct.

Five yuan for a ticket still feels expensive, but it's no longer prohibitively expensive.

On the opening night of the small theater, the Blue Shark Band naturally had to be there. Liang Liang brought a total of ten bands with him, each performing two to three songs.

Since people have paid for the performances, we naturally need to ensure there are enough shows to satisfy the audience.

The small theater also offers song requests and tipping services, as well as a bar serving cigarettes, alcohol, candy, tea, and other beverages.

The ticket revenue, song requests, tips, and sales of cigarettes and alcohol on the first night were quite considerable. Tickets sold for over 3,300 yuan, and song requests and tips brought in 1,400 to 1,500 yuan.

Liang Liang reaped the benefits without lifting a finger, earning 1,600 to 1,700 yuan. Combined with the bar's income, he made around 2,000 yuan.

At this rate, it will take him a year to recoup his investment here.

If you can recoup your entire investment within a year, then it's a very worthwhile investment.

Ban Ya contacted some of his comrades-in-arms from Liaoning Province. Four of his comrades came from various parts of Liaoning Province to Lianwan City to be responsible for security.

Although these people weren't as sharp as Fang, they were all clearly not to be trifled with, so we could rest assured that the small theater would be safe with them here as security.

However, Liang Liang, who manages this small theater, has not been able to find a suitable candidate.

He then set his sights on Li Zhizhou.

Li Zhizhou, being within the system, certainly wouldn't step out to manage the small theater specifically for Liang Liang, even though he was tempted by the salary Liang Liang offered—it was twice his current wage.

He recommended an older woman from his department who had just retired this year to Liang Liang.

Liang Liang looked at Li Zhizhou with suspicion, sensing that he wasn't joking.

Recommending a fifty-year-old woman to manage these rock-and-roll youths? Is this person kidding me?

“Our former president was incredibly capable. She retired before she was even fifty. If you let her manage the small theater, I guarantee she could keep those idiots in line. If anyone dared to play any tricks in her place, they were asking for death.”

Hearing Li Zhizhou say this, Liang Liang felt it made a lot of sense, so she nodded in agreement.

On the second day after the small theater opened, Liang Liang met this woman named Aunt Lan.

Having been a leader, he exuded authority, scrutinizing Liang Liang with his eyes for a long time.

These glasses alone disarmed Liang Liang considerably. If she were truly dedicated to this job, these guys would really have a tough time.

"Did Leonardo DiCaprio say that the people I need to manage are all rock singers?"

"Do you know about rock and roll?" Liang Liang asked cautiously.

"I've worked at a newspaper for decades. What strange things do I not know? Aren't they just those long-haired, androgynous guys?"

Not bad! She even knows about long hair, which proves she does know about rock music.

"If you were in charge of them, would you make them cut their hair?"

If Aunt Lan really did that, it would be like stirring up a hornet's nest.

Aunt Lan shook her head: "No, because this is not within my jurisdiction. I will not make such an unreasonable and hateful decision."

This sentence shows that Aunt Lan is a reasonable person. She knows very well what she should and shouldn't do, which makes things easier.

"The work in this industry is a bit of a day-night cycle. There's almost no work to do in the morning, so it's up to you whether you come or not. Even if you do come, you'll just sit there doing nothing. I won't say anything if you don't come, and I won't ask you to come at night either, because the small theaters are all open at night, and we don't get off work until around midnight every day. At your age, you can't stay up that late. So you just need to come in the afternoon and handle the things that happen at the small theater. If you can't handle them, tell me, and I'll pay you 700 yuan a month."

Liang Liang wouldn't ask Aunt Lan to come to the small theater at night. She's too old to stay up too late, and besides, it would be inconvenient for her to get home after dark.