Though there is already a proliferation of “trouser falling” scenes without that ever having to be in it. The Secret of My Success plays out like a theatre farce, and I wouldn’t have been surprised if a vicar appeared in the middle of a tea party and his trousers fell down.
The overpowering soundtrack blasts out 80s power ballads at all too regular intervals, while the obligatory 80s montage appears as always to get the narrative rolling along with as little fuss as possible.
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If any other actor was playing his part(s) it would be a very different movie indeed. Fox saves this movie from being another run of the mill comedy/romance movie that proliferated during the 80s, and his onscreen presence makes every scene that he is in immensely watchable. But will everything end in tears or will there be a happy ending (no pun intended on that one!) Of course this double life can’t be sustained for long, and throw in the tangled web of sexual relationships and you have a disaster waiting to happen. Starting in the mail room, he soon discovers a way to lead a double life working delivering the mail in the offices (as Brantley Foster), as well as living the high powered life as one of the “suits” (Carlton Whitfield) doing business deals. In fact there’s quite a lot of sex in this movie! From Brantley shagging both the wife of his boss and Christy ( Helen Slater), who is one of the employees and the girl he falls in love with and then becomes his girlfriend, to his boss shagging Christy (it’s complicated!), to Brantley walking in on a couple having sex in an office store room, and then the neighbours at his run down apartment going at it so hard and so often that the partition between the 2 rooms begins to shake and he conducts their sex noises, climaxing (pun fully intended) in him opening a spurting can of beer.Īnyway, putting the sex to one side for a moment (which is more than Brantley does), he gets a job at a business firm headed by his cantankerous and leering Uncle Howard ( Richard Jordan). Fox (looking about 12 years old…as he did for about 20 years) is Brantley Foster a business college graduate from Kansas who travels to New York to find his fortune…and to hopefully get laid too. Now some people may view that as a negative, however, anything 80s is always good with me. This movie is so 1980s! In fact, it couldn’t get any more 80s if it squeezed itself into some lycra, backcombed its hair, then moonwalked down a rain soaked neon-lit street to a synth and saxophone score. So to begin, here’s what I thought about revisiting The Secret of My Success. This brand new staging is created just for you by Theatre Under The Stars.Thanks to our good friends at Fabulous Films (hello Isabel), I was sent some Blu-ray releases from their back catalogue that I hadn’t watched since the days of VHS! With an updated, modern day setting this is a magnificent new show and a gift for audiences. Fox, this hysterically funny and brilliantly conceived production is a wild look at redefining what success means to you when the world around you changes, corporate culture, ambition and making your own way in life. This play is a masterpiece of fun.” – Chicago NowĪ REGIONAL PREMIERE – Theatre Under The Stars is thrilled to be partnering with Universal Theatrical Group, the production company behind the mega-hit like Wicked, to bring you this fresh new take on a fabulous hit film, The Secret of My Success.īased on the smash-hit Universal Pictures film starring Michael J. “The Secret of My Success” is the lightning-strike new musical that actually has the potential for Broadway.” – Chicago sun times “A spectacular musical. Based on the Universal Pictures Film, Story by AJ Carothers.ĭirected by Dan Knechtges. PROUDLY PRODUCED BY THEATRE UNDER THE STARS – ONLY IN HOUSTON! OCTOBER 25 - november 6 the hobby center for the performing artsīook by Gorden Greenberg and Steve Rosen, Music and Lyrics by Michael Mahler and Alan Schmuckler.
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