Fame "Life Is A Celebration"

Fame Life Is A Celebration
Lydia, Coco, Danny & Cast
Season 1 (Street Kid)

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Entertainment

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• Fame
• Lydia
• Coco
• Danny
• Street
• Kid

[bcrocker33]

Debbie Allen shows that you don't have to be tall to be an amazing dancer that fills a room with emotion. she is as tiny as a minute here and she just fills it with her larger than life presence. Sabra sort of reminded me of her on SYTYCD. i absolutely love Debbie Allen and she is mult-talented. she lives and breathes the arts.

[TraffordReds9]

Glee has NOTHING on this, the original!

[outtherenowguy]

Love it! Memories of high school ...

[born86live]

YESSSSSSSS LUV IT

[juandenz2008]

Recently I watched a show from a couple of years back where British comedian Justin Lee Collins tries to reunite the cast of Fame. As part of the show he interviews Erica Gimpel (Coco) who tells the story about a woman who was planning to commit suicide. The woman saw this song performed on the tv show and was so inspired that she decided not to commit suicide, and she wrote a letter to the producers of the show thanking them.

[jellybee68]

poor Dominique Dunne.

[jellybee68]

@TraffordReds9 like everything these days...poor carbon copies :-(

[cunningsophie]

@TraffordReds9 You are so right.Super!

[wtcoaching]

I was a child and FAME is in my heart, now I'm 40 years old and still a fan!!! Willeke from Holland

[delindamck]

This song is wonderful, and the dancing is phenomenal - though it's a little sad, considering the message of the song, and the girl that plays the street kid is Dominique Dunne who was murdered not long after this was filmed. R.I.P. Dominique.

[Jayjen35]

@mdafalls That's because the show was cast realistically, unlike something like Glee. It's very rare in musical theatre to find a true "triple threat" someone who dances like Debbie Allen, sings like Irene Cara, and acts like Meril Streep. So, Fame was cast with an eye towards what the characters were going to spend the most time doing. A lot of the "drama" on Fame involved "Cocoa" so they needed someone that could pass as a dancer/singer, but was primarily and actor, Erica Gimpel. And so on.

[coreyandrewmusic]

I've seen many dancers in my life time and Debbie Allen hands down might the best I've ever seen. I agree with the comment above that she is larger than life when she moves and I mean who the hell can do a high kick like that other than maybe Chita Rivera. Debbie is really otherworldly. Ahhhhhh 'Fame'. Love it!