“Almost Famous” did make perhaps more sense to translate from the big screen to a stage musical than some other films have because, for one thing (spoiler alert for anyone who’s been asleep at the …
, who wrote the music for the show and co-wrote the lyrics with Crowe. The premiere production will have just wound down at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre when Crowe and Kitt talk about it at Neuehouse in Hollywood Oct. 29, but it’ll provide a tease for what’s expected to be many productions to come, including an expected Broadway run if producers can land the right theater.
Adds Crowe, “It’s surprising to me how few people know that ‘It Ain’t Easy’ is a Bowie song. They’re like, ‘Yeah, I like that song you guys wrote for the deflowering scene.’ It’s on ‘Ziggy Stardust,’ baby. Come on!” Other songs, heard in toto or briefly, with’s “Tiny Dancer” being an Act 1-ending no-brainer. “I don’t think we got any turndowns,” Crowe says. Yes, he concedes, he’s made a lot of rock-star friends over the years , and you would assume that would make getting permissions easier.
Kitt was a huge fan of Crowe’s screenplay. “I think what Cameron does is, like any great writer, he makes things that you feel are everyday poetry. We can all draw lines from his writing where we wish we could express ourselves that way at the drop of a hat, things that he seems to find language for. Writing the songs with him, I just wanted to pick his brain and hear those thoughts and feel that language that onlycould come up.
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