By a little past five in the afternoon on a cold day in February last year, a huge crowd had gathered in front of Taipei's Armed Forces Cultural Activity Center, a crowd the likes of which had rarely been seen there before. Gray-haired Peking opera addicts mingled with energetic young students carrying notebooks, and the name Ma Yu-ch'i was constantly on their lips.
去年二月下旬，軍中劇隊開箱新春檔中，打頭陣的陸光，首先推出全本「群英會」。當日下午五點多，國軍文藝活動中心前就開始湧現少見的人潮，鬢髮斑白的老戲迷和帶著筆記本的學生們夾雜在隊伍中，「馬玉琪」三個字不斷被提起、被談論。