David Cassidy on the Web
C'mon, get happy, press tour is over
July 27, 2004
Oakland Tribune
YOU know it's the last day of press tour when David Cassidy is singing "The Partridge Family" anthem "C'mon, Get Happy" down the hotel hallway and you're too tired to manage a grin.
Cassidy and his "Partridge" brother Danny Bonaduce came to hype their new VH1 project, "In Search of the Partridge Family." It's a seven-episode "American Idol"-type reality show that follows the search for potential castmembers of a new version of the musical sitcom.
(By the way, Cassidy's half-brother Shaun, also a former teen idol, has been a TV writer for years. His current project is the WB fall drama "The Mountain.")
Cassidy and Bonaduce traded friendly barbs, just like brothers, as they talked about the show. The series was created by Bernard Slade, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright best known for "Same Time, Next Year."
"(Slade) downplays his creation and I give him more credit," says Cassidy. "(The show) is something that I care so much about, its legacy."
