Hip-hop dance moves and cheer squad acrobatics combined during “Bring It On: The Musical,” which played Thursday, Feb. 6 at John R. Emens Auditorium.
While REO Speedwagon is expected to be the big show of the weekend, a large crowd gathered in for the stage adaptation of the popular cheerleading series “Bring It On.”
Right before the show, a clock counted down on a digital scoreboard before the main character Campbell, played by Nadia Vynnytsky, took the stage.
Emily Kremer, a senior special education major, expected something similar to the 2000 movie with Eliza Dushku and Kirsten Dunst. What she got was a combination of the cinema franchise in a high energy musical, she said.
“I didn’t realize they were taking from all the Bring It On movies,” Kremer said. “It was really more like ‘Bring it On: All or Nothing.‘”
The story opens on Campbell preparing to take over as captain for her high school cheerleading squad in her senior year.
When an unfortunate turn of events leaves her home redistricted, she finds herself attending the inter-city Jackson High School instead of her previous home at Truman High School.
Suddenly, her dream of winning nationals seems destroyed.
Campbell befriends the only student who was also transferred, Bridget, and attempts to join the dance crew. After a few racially charged jokes, Campbell wins over the trust of dance captain Danielle by joining the group dressed as a leprechaun.
Kremer, by the intermission, said she was “sucked in” by the show’s high-energy and drama.
Freshman nursing majors, Emily New and Elizabeth Harris, said the stunts were really impressive.
“Those were some of the best stunts I’ve ever seen,” New said. “I don’t know how they could do all of that.”
The show’s emotional climax hits when Campbell’s current and former high schools face off at their national competition with the song “Cross the Line.”
“I just loved everything,” Harris said. “It was so much cooler than what I remember from the movies.”
The show was filled with hip-hop inspired dancing, coupled with basket-tosses, sending the cast members close to the lighting above them.
The cast received a standing ovation for their eleventh stop on their international tour, which will take the show to Japan.
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