In addition to introducing mechanical sets, the Fujianese opera groups adapted to keep up with developments in the movies. When the film Mambo Girl was all the rage, the Fujianese troupes suddenly started doing musicals--which they described as "modern Fujianese opera" --wearing contemporary costumes and mambo-dancing to accompaniment from piano, saxophone and drums. It certainly testifies to the eclectic nature of ko-tzai-hsi, and the opera troupes 'imaginative instinct for self-preservation.
除了機關變景，閩劇團也跟著熱門電影變花樣，電影《曼波女郎》正紅，閩劇團也搖身一變成為歌舞團，穿起時裝彈鋼琴、吹薩克斯風、打西洋鼓，大跳曼波舞，叫做「摩登閩劇團」，充分顯現歌仔戲無所不容的特點，及戲班求新求變的生存本領。