The new, 2009 reinvention of Fame takes its inspiration from Alan Parkers Oscar®-winning 1980 film. With its indelible images of students joyously dancing on taxicabs and Irene Caras hit rendition of the films theme song ringing in the nations ears, Fame became a critical hit and a film experience people took to heart. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards® and won two: Best Music (Original Score) and Best Music (Original Song) for Fame. Its other nominations were for Film Editing, Music (Original Song) for Out Here On My Own, Sound, and Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen). With a devoted fanbase, the film struck a major chord with audiences, and over the next two decades Fame became a quasi cottage industry, spawning a popular television series that ran for several seasons and lives on in syndication and on DVD, a Broadway musical, a world tour, and a reality TV show long before American Idol or So You Think You Can Dance became hit television staples. Now, almost thirty years later, a new generation is putting on their tap shoes, sitting down at the piano, and grabbing the microphone to strut their stuff. www.blacktree.tv