Spice Girls Tampil di Panggung Usai World Premiere
Spice Girls Took to the Stage After the World Premiere
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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London (B2B) - The Spice Girls tampil di panggung usai World Premiere acara musikal yang ceritanya diinspirasi dari kepopuleran girlband itu pada era 90an. Mereka mendapat sambutan meriah dari para penonton.
"Viva Forever!" adalah buah karya produser Judy Craymer, otak di balik musikal "Mamma Mia!" berdasar lagu hits ABBA yang meraup pendapatan 2 miliar dolar di seluruh dunia dan juga melahirkan film yang dibintangi Meryl Streep.
Dia bekerjasama dengan komedian Inggris Jennifer Saunders untuk mengarang kisah tentang karakter utama Viva, remaja yang bersama teman-temannya lolos ke final kontes menyanyi di TV yang mirip "The X Factor".
Para "mentor" di acara tersebut membuat kejutan dengan menyingkirkan tiga anggota bandnya dan meninggalkan Viva sendirian.
Dalam kisah itu, pesan moral yang disampaikan adalah bagaimana harus memilih sesuatu yang lebih penting, teman, keluarga, atau ketenaran.
"Kami mencintaimu Judy!" kata Gery Halliwell di akhir pertunjukan yang ditutup dengan beberapa lagu populer Spice Girls termasuk "Spice Up Your Life".
"Terima kasih telah membuat impian Spice Girls menjadi kenyataan," tambah Halliwell.
Halliwell ditemani di panggung oleh Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, dan Melanie Chisholm yang membuat tren girl band pada era 90an dengan "girl power".
Ibu Muda
Bagi para ibu muda yang berumur kepala tiga akhir dan awal 40an, personil Spice Girls masih dikenal lewat nama panggilannya, Posh (Beckham), Scary (Brown), Baby (Bunton), Sporty (Chishilm), dan Ginger (Halliwell).
Mereka dielu-elukan oleh para feminis dan kesuksesannya tidak usah diragukan lagi. Mereka telah menjual 55 juta keping rekaman.
Band tersebut bubar 12 tahun lalu, menjadi santapan lezat dari tabloid gosip Inggris, seperti dikutip BBC.
London - The Spice Girls took to the stage on Tuesday after the world premiere of a new musical loosely based on their meteoric rise to fame in the 1990s, earning huge cheers from an audience that only really got going at the encore.
"Viva Forever!" was the brainchild of producer Judy Craymer, whose "Mamma Mia!" musical based on the hits of ABBA has earned nearly $2 billion worldwide and spawned a hit movie starring Meryl Streep.
She teamed up with British comedian Jennifer Saunders to create a story about the central character Viva, a sprightly teenager who, along with her friends, gets into the final stages of a TV singing contest closely resembling "The X Factor".
To boost flagging audience figures - a nod to "The X Factor"s real-life ratings woes in Britain this season - their "mentor" springs a surprise and throws out three members of the band to leave Viva on her own.
What follows is part morality tale examining what is more important - friends, family or fame.
"We love you Judy!" said Geri Halliwell at the end of the show, which closed with a romp through some of the Spice Girls' biggest hits including "Spice Up Your Life".
"Thank you for making the Spice Girls' dream come true," Halliwell added.
Halliwell was joined on stage by Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm, who together stormed the charts in the 1990s and put "girl power" on the map.
Young Mothers
Now all young mothers in their late 30s and early 40s, The Spice Girls are still affectionately known by the nicknames they adopted in the band - Posh (Beckham), Scary (Brown), Baby (Bunton), Sporty (Chisholm) and Ginger (Halliwell).
They were hailed as modern-day feminists by some and dismissed as vacuous pop princesses by others, but their success is beyond doubt. They sold 55 million records.
The band broke up around 12 years ago, and internal bickering among the members was long the delight of Britain's celebrity-obsessed tabloids.
