Review-FAME
April 28, 2009
Venue: Sunderland Empire
April 27th 2009
A new take on a well known and very popular musical, based on the 80s film and TV show FAME, following a group of aspiring teenage students, as they push themselves to the limit, displaying dedication and resilience at New York’s High School of performing arts, their goal, to reach the finish line of graduation and seek FAME.
Each student brings their own characteristics and storylines handling controversial topics and troubled souls, all are clearly portrayed, from Mable Washington, (Terisha Rommick), the overweight, loudmouthed dancer who ignores everyone’s advice to slim down and injects humour at every opportunity, to Tyrone Jackson (Spin) the confident womaniser who struggles with his inability to read, to Schlomo Metzenbaum (Nicholas Larkin) the son of a famous musician who finds and loses love, and Carmen Diaz (Holly James) who struggles to overcome her demons and the addiction of drugs.
Minor props including a door, a whiteboard and mirrors were cleverly used to set the variety of scenes, they were very simple yet extremely effective.
Beverley Trotman plays the role of English Teacher Miss Sherman convincingly, and her brilliant voice provides an outstanding solo that has the audience mesmerised.
The whole cast displays their abilities to sing, dance and act equally to an extremely high standard, providing a flawless performance, with bags of energy.
The choreographer Karen Bruce should be congratulated for her amazing routines stretching the actors abilities to their boundaries, and keeping the audience engrossed throughout each scene.
The only downside for me is the fact that audience participation is held back right until the very end. It takes the famous signature song ‘FAME’ to unleash their desires to partake, allowing them to well and truly become gripped in the moment, this results in an incredible atmosphere, and I feel it is a shame that this ambience could not have been reflected throughout the whole performance.
In my opinion, Fame provides a very enjoyable performance including an excellent array of talent and is well worth a visit.
By Hollie Marie Smith
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