“Night before the exams” will become a musical

In 2006 the comedy film “Night before the exam” was released, directed by Fausto Brizzito his debut in directing. The film offers an accurate reconstruction of the youth culture of the eighties through the insertion of multiple references, in particular musical: Obviously, Antonello Venditti’s song released in 1984 is inevitable. “The film was a success and allowed a new generation to make the piece known,” said the Roman singer -songwriter on the occasion of his concert in Genoa at Porto Antico. On stage, with him, also the director Brizzi, now residing for a few months in the city of Lanternbecause husband of the new mayor of Genoa Silvia Salis.

The two, together, announced that in 2026, twenty years after that film with Nicolas Vaporidis, Giorgio Faletti and Cristiana Capotondi, “Night before the exams” will arrive at the theater, becoming a musical. “Every year, in the days of maturity, I receive messages from boys, girls and parents who meet again in the stories of Luca, Alice and Professor Martinelli. It has become a fixed appointment, a sort of passage between generations – explained Brizzi – It is a film that somehow entered the Italian collective imagination And this was also possible thanks to the soundtrack. The idea, on which we are working, It is to make this imagination land in the theater, transforming everything into musicals“. The soundtrack, today perhaps, due to the costs for the rights of the songs, almost impossible to put back on their feet, included Hit 80s as “Lamette”, “The Wild Boys”, “Save a Prayer”, “The Final Countdown”, “What will remain of the 80s”, “Self Control” and “Play Jouer“.

“‘Night before the exams’ is a ‘Forever Young’ that is renewed every year. A song that will always be contemporary. Which concerns 500,000 boys every year, their families, their professors who cross this rite of passage. This is moved to me … “. So Antonello Venditti told the journalists the meaning of the song before climbing on the stage of the Terme di Caracalla for the debut date of the tour ‘Night before the exams 40th Anniversary – 2025 Edition’citing the famous song by Bob Dylan from 1974 which is a hymn to the youth of the spirit, an encouragement to maintain a positive and full of wonderful look towards life.