FAME FOREVER THE MUSICAL

[west end artist1]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 8:32pm

OH YES ITS TRUE

Now as much as i love fame the musical, due to the fact it brings in young people in to the theatre(and i was in it for over 2 years hehe)THIS IS ONE STEP TO FAR.
They will be a sequal to fame the musical called fame forever

I kid you not

[Just_John]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 8:35pm

like a motion picture???

[rclocalz]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 8:42pm

what the heck? Is Carmen coming back from the dead or something? Or is it gonna be like FAME: the college life.

[Over the Moon]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 8:44pm

huh?

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 9:49pm

I adore Fame. Had a blast when I did it (I was Schlomo) but I pray it doesnt actually happen. Like what the hell can happen. Carmen comes back from the dead? Nick really comes out? Joe gets a girl? Come on why kill something good?

[west end artist1]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 10:04pm

Fame Forever takes place 30 years after the original fame the musical and it catches up with the graduates of the fame high school and we find out what happened to them and if they made it.It also follow's there children who are now at the same high school and because all there children go there they reunite for the first time in 30 years.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 10:04pm

Fame was a lot of fun. Excellent choreographies and dance numbers.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 10:06pm

"Come on why kill something good?"

No, it's why extend the life of something dreadful?

[west end artist1]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 10:11pm

FAME had a lot of great things about it and out lasted some massive musicals in the UK and the rest of the world(except america),but i have to say this is a BAD idea.

sequal's to musicals do not work,Annie 2,Bring Back Birdie anyone?

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 10:12pm

Its nto a masterpice but it is a fun entertaining show. Defintiyl isnt dreadful. And 30 years later to reunite. That actually might sorta be intresting.

[west end artist1]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 10:18pm

Bit more info

music by steve margoshes
book and lyrics by ben winters

[wildcat]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 12:29am

Is Miss Sherman still there, covered in cobwebs in a wheelchair singing "These are My Grandchildren"?

[west end artist1]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 10:13am

hehehe miss sherman was great

Thinking about it it could be quite intresting,maybee this will give them chance to put right a few of the wrongs made with fame the musical...

[kim1061]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 11:15am

im actually excited to see this.

Fame on 42nd street was my favorite for awhile, although most people didn't like it.

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 11:48am

Fame on 42nd Street wasnt actually super super differnt from the origanal version. I have copies of both so yea. I hope this is done decently and isnt just be done for the hell of it.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 11:56am

This could be..interesting. I love the original, but please let's not kill this wonderful material like we did with a certain other sequel...Annie 2. (Although some would argue that "Annie" was born to die anyway...)

[west end artist1]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 7:17pm

Im so glad they are so Fame fans in the states i thought everyone there hated it.Fame On 42nd street was Fame the musical with only 3 lines in the whole show been different.We used to get the biggest ovations everynight when i was doing this in the west end it was a great fun silly show.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 8:03pm

No, it's dreadful. A piece of crap, actually. A hideous re-write of the movie, changing the character's names ("Shlomo?" I opened the Playbill and asked "Are they f*cking KIDDING me?") and cynically capitalizing on the brand name and a bit of the famous theme song.

[west end artist1]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 10:10pm

all musicals end up capitalizing on something especially an established name.

Wicked,DRS,Light In The Piazza,Footloose,Jersey Boys,Phantom,billy Elliot,Les Miserables,La Cage,Little Shop

Etc Etc Etc

[i*heart*fame]

Posted: 7/13/06 at 10:42pm

Is there any more information on this? Any early plot summary beyond what you have given?

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 1:11am

slight thread jack but west end artist who did u play in fame?

[Over the Moon]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 1:13am

do i smell a grease 2????

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 9:38am

"sequal's to musicals do not work,Annie 2,Bring Back Birdie anyone?"

March of the Falsettos? Falsettoland? Both were sequels that completed the Marvin trilogy and did rather well.

But I agree that Fame Forever is a hideous idea. Has anyone ever wondered what happened to the students in the movie Fame, much less the watered-down stage version? Who cares?

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:38am

Musical sequels...

Anyone remember Andrew Lloyd Webber's great attempt to create a PHANTOM II?

Also, Ritz O'Brien was working on a second Rocky for the stage (Shock Treatment is a film and doesn't really classify as a direct sequel)

[west end artist1]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 8:30pm

hi there

I went in as ensemble but then played schlomo and nick

lol