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''Back to the Eighties'' is a strange variation on the [[Jukebox Musical]] by Neil Gooding where instead of using all songs from one band, only songs from one decade ([[Exactly What It Says |
''Back to the Eighties'' is a strange variation on the [[Jukebox Musical]] by Neil Gooding where instead of using all songs from one band, only songs from one decade ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the 80s]]) are used. The musical focuses on the senior year of fictional American high school William Ocean High, particularly an uncool kid named Corey Palmer with a crush on popular girl Tiffany Houston, a hatred of popular guy Micheal Feldman and rather unfair feelings of superiority towards loveable nerd Feargal McFerrin III. |
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The show is subtitled "The Totally Awesome Musical", and it doesn't really get any less cheesy from that point on... |
The show is subtitled "The Totally Awesome Musical", and it doesn't really get any less cheesy from that point on... |
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* [[Minored in Asskicking]]: Feargal, almost literally - he takes extra-curricular martial arts lessons. |
* [[Minored in Asskicking]]: Feargal, almost literally - he takes extra-curricular martial arts lessons. |
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* [[Musical Theme Naming]]: ''Everyone''. |
* [[Musical Theme Naming]]: ''Everyone''. |
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Oh boy. For starters, every single character (even ones we don't see on-stage) is named after a famous 80s personage. Then there are on-stage conversations about [[The A-Team]], the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]], [[Pac-Man]], [[Space Invaders]], [[Star Wars]] etc. And some scenes are clearly an [[Affectionate Parody]] of similar scenes from [[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Buellers Day Off]] and [[The Karate Kid]]. |
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* [[This Loser Is You]]: The audience is clearly supposed to relate to Corey, despite his being very low down the high-school food-chain. |
* [[This Loser Is You]]: The audience is clearly supposed to relate to Corey, despite his being very low down the high-school food-chain. |
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* [[Those Two Guys]]: Alf and Kirk, Corey's best friends. Laura and Debbie could be seen as a female variant, as could Mel and Kim. |
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Alf and Kirk, Corey's best friends. Laura and Debbie could be seen as a female variant, as could Mel and Kim. |