The Commitments (other)
The Commitments may refer to: * ''The Commitments'' (novel), a 1987 novel by Roddy Doyle * ''The Commitments'' (film), a 1991 film adaptation of the book * ''The Commitments'' (musical), 2013 stage musical adaptation of the book See also * The Stars from the Commitments The Stars From The Commitments is a nine-piece Dublin based soul band, featuring original cast members and musicians from the BAFTA Winner, Golden Globe & Oscar nominated Sir Alan Parker film '' The Commitments'' and multimillion selling sound t ...

The Commitments (novel)
''The Commitments'' (1987) (originally to be called ''The Partitions'') is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. The first episode in ''The Barrytown Trilogy'', it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band. Plot summary Two friends — Derek Scully and "Outspan" Foster — get together to form a band, but soon realise that they don't know enough about the music business to get much further than their small neighbourhood in the Northside of Dublin. To solve this problem, they recruit a friend they'd had from school, Jimmy Rabbitte, to be their manager. He accepts graciously, but only if he can make fundamental changes to the group, the first being the sacking of the third, and mutually disliked, member — their synth player. After this, Rabbitte gets rid of their name, making them "The Commitments" (stating "All the good 60s bands started with a 'the'") and, most importantly, forming them from another synthpop group into ...
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The Commitments (film)
''The Commitments'' is a 1991 musical comedy-drama film based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Roddy Doyle. It was directed by Alan Parker from a screenplay written by Doyle, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Set in the Northside of Dublin, the film tells the story of Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), a young music fanatic who assembles a group of working-class youths to form a soul band named "The Commitments". The film is the first in a series known as ''The Barrytown Trilogy'', followed by '' The Snapper'' (1993) and '' The Van'' (1996). Producers Lynda Myles and Roger Randall-Cutler acquired the film rights to the novel in 1988, and commissioned Doyle, a first-time screenwriter, to write an adaptation. Doyle spent one year working on the script before Myles brought in veteran screenwriters Clement and La Frenais to help complete it. Upon reading the novel, Parker signed on as the film's director in 1989. An international co-production between Ireland, the United States ...
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The Commitments (musical)
''The Commitments'' is a jukebox musical written by Roddy Doyle, based on the 1987 novel of the same name, also written by Doyle. Like the novel (and its 1991 film adaptation), the musical is about a group of unemployed Irish youths who start a soul music band. It premiered in 2013 at the Palace Theatre in London's West End. The music within the musical consists of soul and rock & roll classics from the 1950s and 60s, including " Think", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", " Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and " Night Train". The music is entirely diegetic, meaning that all the songs are performed by the band rather than being sung by characters to express an emotion. For that reason, Doyle has insisted that ''The Commitments'' is not a jukebox musical. Background The musical is based on the 1987 novel, by Roddy Doyle. Following the 1991 film adaptation, Doyle said he received 20 different offers to turn the novel into a musical. He turned them all down because he had become r ...
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