Fame

Fame started out a movie in the early 70's, the a t.v. series and now the fame high school is still working but with the new class, does it still do it justice? I believe it does. I saw Fame - the musical at the edinburgh playhouse and about to see it again in cheltenham in septemeber. The Cast strong singers, actors and dancers (hard to find in some shows this day) starts off slow with "i pray i make P.A.", p.a. being the school of performing arts. The bursts with energy when lampchops recieves a letter that she has been accepted, then from that time on until the end the energy never ceases! Every emotion is available in this musical ...

FAME is the all singing, all dancing story of the pupils of the New York school of performing arts. The musical follows one class of students right from their initial auditions to their graduation day. Before going to see the musical I had read the book of Fame, which was based on the original film. In fact, I had read it over and over again. I loved it and could not wait to see the musical in the flesh. Having now seen it, I felt a little bit disappointed. The names of characters had been changed, and storylines watered down. I realise this is necessary for a musical of two hours long but I felt some of the storylines were wrapped up too easily and it would ...

Fame- The Musical has been hanging around the West End in various forms for about 6 years now. The film and TV series bring back such fond memories for me, that I - like loads of other theatre goers decided to re-live a bit of my youth and see if Fame really could live forever. I did not don the leg warmers or the string vest but in my head I was going back to a real hey day of dancing on tables and finding out where you could "start paying in sweat!" The theatre was buzzing. Everyone had songs in their head from the TV show that they wanted to hear. I had come to hear Starmaker and High Fidelity. These corny songs were great back in the 80's! The ...