Fame! performance delights audiences
Students stage story of New York’s legendary school
A GROUP of students have demonstrated how their love of the arts is “gonna live forever” by performing a funfilled musical to friends and family.
Hawley Place School’s senior students last week staged Fame Jr., based on the hit motion picture which was turned into a long-running television series.
Set during the last years of the “Fame School,” New York City’s celebrated high school for the performing arts on 46th Street, the musical follows the bittersweet but inspiring story of a diverse group of students as they commit to four years of gruelling artistic and academic work in order to achieve their dream of “hitting the heights” and putting their “name in lights”.
With insight and humour, the show explores the issues that confront many young people today, including prejudice, identity, self-worth, literacy and perseverance.
In Fame Jr. the characters discover it takes much more than talent to achieve their goals. They must find their true artistic voice, build up their confidence, learn how to collaborate well and work very hard.
Janet Atkinson, school development manager, said: “Hawley Place students exhibited these same life skills and discipline through their process of staging Fame! Jr.”
The pupils performed the show three times.