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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 based on 79 reviews
  • Rating: 1 out of 5

    big dissapointment

    by Luretta on 1/11/17Fred Kavli Theatre-Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza - Thousand Oaks

    I was so looking forward to this show- the voices were sporadically good -but some even cracked in the middle of songs- the story was not layed out well so you did not care about the characters- It was just lacking in everything - the audience must have agreed because the appalause was polite only I walked out before intermission

  • Rating: 1 out of 5

    Left at Intermission

    by DeaL2 on 1/10/17Fred Kavli Theatre-Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza - Thousand Oaks

    I love plays. I even love bad plays. I've been to many many plays, including those at my children's elementary school. I have never left a play early: never. Until now. This play was awful, with two exceptions, the singing and the sets were quite good. Other than that, the whole show was poorly done; poorly acted; poorly cast; poorly costumed; poorly choreographed; the sound was awful. It stunk. It stunk so badly that we left during intermission. I'm so sorry about this. I truly wanted to love it.

  • Rating: 1 out of 5

    Less than a High School Performance

    by MickDailey on 1/10/17Fred Kavli Theatre-Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza - Thousand Oaks

    Left at intermission. It was so bad that we all got the giggles and had to leave as not to disturb the other patrons

  • Rating: 1 out of 5

    Waste of my money

    by socalgirl1 on 1/10/17Fred Kavli Theatre-Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza - Thousand Oaks

    Awful- I wished I would not had spent my money on that- singers were bad and the play was not like the fame I knew

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Fame was a smash!!!

    by Rex123 on 1/10/17Fred Kavli Theatre-Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza - Thousand Oaks

    The singing and dancing was phenomenal. The cast/crew did an amazing job.

  • Rating: 3 out of 5

    It was okay.

    by LMorgan96 on 1/9/17Fred Kavli Theatre-Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza - Thousand Oaks

    The singing voices were excellent, but the entire first half, the music was so loud that the lyrics were unintelligible. The plot was weak, but that would've been okay if the acting had been better. Iris' reaction to Tyrone copying her term paper was bizarre. Her expression looked like she was ashamed and we were waiting for a plot twist in which she'd been the one to turn in a plagiarized version. Where was the anger at Tyrone's denial that he'd copied Iris' paper (thus implying that Iris was the one guilty of plagiarism.) Joe's character was a caricature and stopped being funny after just a few minutes. The sexual innuendos made this production a little racy for a family production. The actress who played Carmen has an amazing voice, but she over sang every single song. It started getting tedious listening to her really long overdone multitude of runs. When the audience eagerly anticipates the song ending, that's not a good thing. I think Serena was our favorite. She had a beautiful voice, and her acting and singing was the most realistic. Overall, it's not a production that I would wish to see a second time. The overacting kept bringing us out of the play and the over-singing ruined most of the songs (including the title song, which I didn't think was possible). Portions of it were like watching a bad high school play and it definitely was not worth the ticket price. In fact, quite a few people (about 1/2 the g row) left during intermission.

  • Rating: 1 out of 5

    Audio was terrible, could not understand

    by leaddawg on 1/9/17Fred Kavli Theatre-Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza - Thousand Oaks

    This was one of the worst performances I have seen at the Fred Kavli theater. The audio was a shrill, hardly discernible shout, and spoiled the experience for me! The acting matched the audio, very poor. And I think the opening number was just too sexually explicit, even embarrassing. After more than five decades of theater enjoyment, this was abysmal, the very bottom!

  • Rating: 1 out of 5

    We left at intermission.....

    by 1000OaksMom on 1/8/17Fred Kavli Theatre-Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza - Thousand Oaks

    This traveling show was just painful. Yes, we get that this is supposed to be a show about talented high school performers, but we did not expect to seem like an ACTUAL high school performance! We expected "FAME" to have excellent singing and acting, and high energy, exciting choreography and dancing. We were grossly disappointed on every level. The singing was fine at times, but sub-par too often. The acting was just bad-- over-acting, cliche, and non-believable performances ruled the show. And the dancing -- what dancing? The little bit of dancing we saw was really just bad. I mean, EVERYTHING Tyrone does should be fun, hip and inspired -- it was anything but. His "new dance form" that he choreographed at the beginning looked like something from my 9yo's dance class. Look -- the set was cute, but that's the only positive thing I have to say. If we could have left BEFORE intermission, we would have. We noticed that lots of other people left at intermission too.....

  • Rating: 2 out of 5

    FAME, not so much!

    by loveslivetheater on 11/22/16Topeka Performing Arts Center - Topeka

    I was disappointed with this performance. I had to keep reminding myself that it was a PROFESSIONAL touring group. I have seen some high school performances go better. While there were a couple of great voices, many voices were flat or sharp and somewhat painful. We attend theatrical event about twice a month, this one is probably one of the poorest professional performances I have ever attended.

  • Rating: 3 out of 5

    Fame was tame

    by sbsbklyn on 2/24/10Mystic Lake Casino Hotel - Prior Lake

    I was more impressed with the theatre than the play. Main character was a hot beautiful girl, in theory. So when a plain looking, slightly heavy actress was there, imagination was needed. When she leaves and returns as a starving drug addict. imagination was required.