Lights. Curtains. Action!

Drama students are putting on Fame, the well-known 80s musical, for this year’s Fall Play.

Taking the lead roles will be Sierra Buffum, Jack Cohen, Michael D’Errico, Eimi Harris, Robert Healy, Emily Luedloff, Swati Sankar and Tom Unruh.

The play will begin at 7 p.m. each night, Oct. 13-15. Tickets will cost $5 if purchased in advance at lunch and $7 if purchased at the door. Seats will be assigned, so people are encouraged to arrive early if they are buying tickets at the door.

Fame was originally produced as a movie in 1980 and since then has also been released as a musical. A remake of the movie was also released in 2009.

Both the movie and the musical follow a group of high school students who are admitted into New York City’s High School of Performing Arts. These students are singers, actors/actresses, dancers and musicians.  At Lafayette, Fame features these same elements.

“There’s a bunch of different areas of expertise. There’s orchestra, dancing, singing [and] acting. So there’s a little bit of everything,” Luedloff said.

Natasha Toro, drama teacher, said, “It’s about a bunch of high school kids at a performing arts school and how they’re all looking for fame and how they’re going to get there without making poor decisions.”

Luedloff agrees, “It’s about all the drama that goes on during [the students’] four years there.”

According to Toro and Luedloff, the group has been rehearsing the play since the last week of August.

When asked if he is nervous, junior Daniel Icet said he is nervous, “in a good way because it will boost my performance with the adrenaline pumping.”

Although nerves may be running high, participants agree that Fame will turn out to be a success.

Junior Kaylee Fechter, one of the show’s choreographers, says “Fame is going to be amazing. It will be a show to remember.”