Jacques Levy, Steve Margoshes - Fame the Musical (1999 Original American Cast Recording)
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Artist: Jacques Levy, Steve MargoshesEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1999-03-23
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Pray I Make P.A. /Hard Work
- I Want to Make Magic
- Can't Keep It Down - Jennifer Gambatese
- Tyrone's Rap - Natasha Rennalls, Carl Tramon
- There She Goes! /Fame - Kim Cea, Regina Le Vert
- Let's Play a Love Scene
- Bring on Tomorrow
- Teacher's Argument
- Hard Work (Reprise)
- I Want to Make Magic (Reprise) - Jennifer Gambatese
- Mabel's Prayer
- Think of Meryl Streep - Regina Le Vert
- Dancin' on the Sidewalk - Natasha Rennalls
- These Are My Children - Gavin Creel, Jennifer Gambatese
- In L.A.
- Let's Play a Love Scene (Reprise) - Gavin Creel
- Bring on Tomorrow (Reprise)
- Curtain Calls: Hard Work/ Fame (Reprise) - Dwayne Chattman
Free Music Notes for Fame the Musical (1999 Original American Cast Recording)
Free Music Review: "Fame" the Musical, Not the movie.
Hit: 4 Stars
As Carmen sings, this is not the movie, not the TV show, but the musical.
My son's school put this on 2 weeks ago and I am hung up on it big time. The script noted that this was not the movie, but I rented that and, basically, it was, with a few modifications. I don't have a problem wth that.
OK, so it dealt with "tough issues" differently, but, hey, no one died in the movie. Carmen did. And from an overdose. After being taken avantage of. OK?
I agree with some reviewers that the soundtrack (I have the '03 Broadway one) lets you relive the play. It does not recreate it. I have listened to it every day since I bought it (much to my son's dismay). And frankly, the white Irsih girl who played Mabel kicked *** twice as well as the woman from the B-way production. And the pro Tyrone was better. Life is like that.
Overall, the tunes are sung in a heartfelt manner and I would say that a person who has seen the play will enjoy the soundtrack.
Fame the Musical (1999 Original American Cast Recording) Poster
First things first: You won't find "Out Here on My Own" or "Hot Lunch Jam" in Fame: The Musical. Unlike the Broadway version of its early-'80s counterpart, Footloose, this not-yet-ready-for-Broadway production doesn't migrate the movie (or its music) to the stage but merely uses the same subject matter as did the film and subsequent TV series--the dance, drama, and music students at New York City's High School of Performing Arts. In fact, the story is set in 1980-1984, right after the film's release, and one of the teachers laments, "We're the Fame school now. Ever since that movie came out." To help establish that distinction, Fame: The Musical has an almost entirely new set of songs by Steve Margoshes and Jacques Levy, though rest assured that you will at least get the title tune--twice, with a Latin groove. Reflecting the various backgrounds of its ensemble cast, the score offers samples of rap ("Tyrone's Rap"), soft-rock balladry ("Let's Play a Love Scene"), and gospel ("Mabel's Prayer")--all pleasant and serviceable, but unlikely to grab you the way Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford's movie soundtrack did (The story also only hints at the seedy underside of inner-city New York explored in the film.) As graduation nears, one character talks excitedly of the feeling of electricity coursing through her, but no, she doesn't break into "I Sing the Body Electric." That would be a little too much to hope for. --David HoriuchiBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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