![]() ![]() I came into the Dramatic Writing Program with a satchel full of stories from the road. ![]() “In fact, I was a high school dropout and had to go to night school and get a GED diploma to try to get accepted into NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. “I wrote Crossroads as my Bachelor’s thesis as I had only come off the road as a traveling musician in the south a few years earlier,” he shared. The original story came from a school thesis – Fusco describes what gave him the idea in the first place. To learn more about Crossroads we went to the man who wrote it singer-songwriter-screenwriter John Fusco. Who could forget a guitar duel between Lightnin’ Boy Martone and Jack Butler at a club in hell? But there’s so much more to the film than just that finale. The coming-of-age musical drama starring Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, and Jami Gertz became instantly popular among members of the blues community, due to its semi-fictional Robert Johnson story line connection, and tons of killer music performed by artists including Arlen Roth, Ry Cooder, Steve Vai, and Sonny Terry.Īlmost everyone remembers the “Cuttin’ Heads” scene. Saturday, March 14 will mark the 34th Anniversary of the release of the film, Crossroads.
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