Lucie Fitchett and Victoria Willing have been friends since their schooldays and in 2010 wrote a successful play based around their teenage love for David Cassidy. They are now planning to rework the play.
Could It be Forever? was given its premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival winning 5 star reviews. David was so inspired by their work, he wrote to them saying he was “honoured” to be the subject of their theatrical production.
The original play is based around the reunion of six schoolfriends who revisit what life was like when David visited London in the 1970s, and examine how they and their own lives have changed over the years.
Lucie and Victoria are revisiting their initial idea and reworking the script. In an exclusive interview with me, they are inviting fans to share their memories, explain what David represented to them then and now, what life is like today for women in their 60s revisiting their early teens, and how they have changed.
In this episode they bounce ideas around, speak openly about the feelings they had for David, what he represented, the importance of friendships through fan worship, and explain why they would like the input from fans who also experienced first-hand Cassidymania in the 1970s.
“We want to bring it back because there is an important story to be told,” they told me. “It’s more about the fans, how they project onto him feelings, how he satisfies those feelings, and what it means years later.”
Victoria is an actress and writer. Lucie has worked as an actress, producer, director and writer.
If you would like to contact Victoria and Lucie they can be reached via email [email protected]
Their friendship and the story of how they came to write the original play, is detailed in my book, Cherish David Cassidy A Legacy of Love available from Amazon and all leading bookstores worldwide.
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