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Forever Plaid

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Synopsis

The story is a simple one of four young men struggling to make it as a swing and standards close harmony group in those pre-Beatles, pre-grassy knoll days of our Perry Como innocence. So what‘s the problem? They‘re dead! Wiped out by a bus full of Catholic schoolgirls while the lads were driving in their now iconic cherry red ‘54 Mercury convertible to their first real gig (at the Fusel-Lounge in a local Pennsylvania airport). The schoolgirls, by the by, were okay. But a second opportunity is now heaven sent to The Plaids. They‘ve returned to Earth nearly 50 years later to put on the show they never performed in life. There are problems of course, not least of which is that they are dead. And there are the more prosaic challenges, such as remembering lyrics and moves that they haven‘t sung or danced in over 40 years.

Product Format Information

DVD : $23.99

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Region Code: 1
UPC: 767685244111
Catalog #: DV3296622

Studio : E1 Entertainment, New Video

Languages: English (Primary)
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen

Keywords

Comedy, Friendship, GLBT Creator / Performer / Writer, Music/Musician, Musical, Performing Arts, Stage-to-Film

Genres

Comedy, Music & Theater

Customer Reviews

Homage to the Fifties

Amos Lassen wrote on 09/30/2011:

In the 1950’s, the music scene was dominated by groups of men and boys who sang in close harmony and that is what “Forever Plaid”, the filmed version of the off-Broadway play is all about. We meet four high school friends who dream of recording an album but the dream was over when death took its course. They were on their way to see the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show when their car hit a bus of Catholic school girls. The girls survived but our singers did not and our story begins with the Plaids returning from the afterlife to try once again to become famous.
The plot is simple but the songs are wonderful and make you remember an era of songs like “Three Coins in a Fountain” and “Heart and Soul”.
Granted the set-up is a bit silly and the plot soon falls away as the music takes over and the chemistry between the guys is amazing. This is just good entertainment and it really is not a movie but a film of a stage play. The transfer to disc could have been better bit again it is the music and if you just sit there and let it take you away; you will have a good time.