If you saw For the Record: John Hughes, this has components of that show, but aims higher. Not only are several of Hughes’s most popular films included (Ferris Bueller Day’s Off, The Breakfast Club), but so are other films such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Valley Girl and Say Anything.

For the uninitiated, For the Record shows combine dialogue and songs from a given director’s movies. They have celebrated the films of Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, Baz Luhrmann and others. The shows take place in and around the audience. The Brat Pack has expanded the single director concept to a broader theme:  teen angst across a number of films from the 1980s.

As he has with several previous productions, Anderson Davis directs The Brat Pack. The cast features James Byous (recently seen on Westside on Netflix – as “The Rebel”),  Patrick Ortiz (Broadway’s Mamma Mia!, West Side Story – as “The Jock”), Doug Kreeger (Broadway’s Les Misérables – as “Mister”), Parissa Kuo (as “The Princess”), Emily Lopez (as “Basket Case”), Kyle Sherman (as “The Geek”) plus Michael Thomas Grant (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist), Kenton Chen, Alex Nee, Zachary Zaret, Claire Blackwelder, Faydean Kielty, and Derek Manson. The band is led by Music Director, Jared Stein.

Unlike previous For the Record productions, there is a pre-show karaoke. Specialty cocktails  are on the menu and this is a 21 and over show.

If you’ve been wondering what to do with your old suspenders, your skinny ties and bright colored 80s clothes, you will fit right in at The Brat Pack if you bust them out. Trust us, you look pretty in pink.

Photo by Abel Armas.

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