She overdoses, but the script calls for the sound of a train to play after she finishes "In L.A"-I have no clue why, it never made any sense to me. Just one of the show's myriad of problems.
The musical and movie don't have much in common except that it is the same school and the song Fame appears in both. Other than that, they are pretty different.
"I hope you're all happy, keeping Alan off the team. Couldn't you, for once, open your minds and hearts and hear something that he couldn't see? I, for one, am glad that Alan is blind, so he can't see what, I am so sad to say, you can't hear." -Jerri Blank