![]() ![]() It’s meant to capture the same thing as the movie, a personal story with music that you love.”ĭespite his concerns, the musical received rave reviews (the Los Angeles Times called it “as shimmering as a stadium of lighters during a Led Zeppelin encore”). “I was really nervous about whether it would translate,” he said. Scores of Hollywood films have been made into musicals over the years, but few of the original filmmakers have had their hands in the remaking (Garry Marshall’s “Pretty Woman” and Patricia Resnick’s “9 to 5” are notable exceptions), as Crowe is doing here, writing the book and co-writing the lyrics.Ĭrowe, who has written and directed such movies as “Say Anything,” “Jerry Maguire” and “Vanilla Sky,” initially was unsure about making a musical out of his critically acclaimed film. “ Almost Famous” opens on Broadway next month, three years after its world premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe. “There are so many times where, if one thing didn’t happen, there’s no ‘Almost Famous.’” ![]() “The fact that they befriended me and started showing me the ropes was the beginning of everything,” Crowe, 65, said. “This is where I’d be sent,” he said with a laugh, pointing to the spot where William, his cinematic alter ego, meets Penny Lane (Kate Hudson) and the other Band-Aids, the not-groupies who would help him navigate the backstage world of rock ’n’ roll. One morning in August, Cameron Crowe - who made the coming-of-age movie, a gentle fictionalization of his days writing for Rolling Stone in the early 1970s - was back at that ramp. Not on the list, the guard says, then tells him to go to the top of the ramp “with the other girls.” ![]() SAN DIEGO - In the 2000 film “ Almost Famous,” William Miller, all of 15 and eager to conduct an interview for Creem magazine, can’t manage to slide past the brusque security guard at the arena where Black Sabbath is playing, despite his assurances that he is indeed a journalist. ![]()
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