Blankenbeuhler, Kitt, Whitty, Miranda, and Green Set for BRING IT ON

"An all-star, Tony Award winning creative team has been assembled to create Bring It On: The Musical, an original musical set in the world of competitive cheerleading.

The award-winning creative team for Bring It On: The Musical includes an array of talented and innovative individuals drawn from the top ranks of the Broadway Theatre World. Andy Blankenbuehler (Tony Award-winning choreographer for In The Heights) will direct and choreograph. Jeff Whitty (Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Avenue Q) will write the book. Bring It On: The Musical will feature music by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Tony Award winner for In the Heights) and Tom Kitt (Tony Award winner for Next to Normal), and lyrics by Amanda Green (High Fidelity). Tony Award winner Alex Lacamoire (In The Heights, Wicked) will serve as orchestrator, arranger and music supervisor.

The writers of Bring It On: The Musical have conceived an original new musical that will feature all new and original characters.

Bring It On: The Musical will be produced by Universal Pictures Stage Productions along with Charlie Lyons and Armyan Bernstein of Beacon Communications. Day-to-day production will be overseen by Kristin Caskey and Mike Isaacson. General Management will be under the direction of Nina Essman and Nancy Nagel Gibbs of 321 Theatrical Management..."

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Blankenbuehler_Whitty_Miranda_Kitt_Green_Lacamoire_Assemble_For_BRING_IT_ON_Musical_Project_20090923

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This is a great creative team. I, oddly enough, have faith in this whole thing just based on who's involved.

I don't. Do we honestly need MORE cheesy movie-to-musical shows?

If Tomm Kitt and Lin are in on it, then I'm excited about it.

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My question is:

Why isn't Miranda writing lyrics?

He's a very good lyricist, maybe a better lyricist than composer. It seems a shame that hes not writing lyrics too.


It doesn't sound like it'll work, but the creative team has an amazing pedigree- so who knows?

If it's original, why give it the title Bring it On? That just seems... cynical.

Can't say I have any interest...
Bring It On: imdb

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Do these travesties never end?

THE WIZ also had a "great" creative team. Remember what happened there?

According to the Playbill article:

A 2000 Universal Pictures movie of the same name was a hot title that spawned sequels; the new musical uses that title and is set in the cheer world, but the plot is new.

So can this even be called an adaptation if all they are using is the title and setting?

Plus nothing clearly states it will be Broadway bound. The article also mentions:

A developmental regional production is expected in early 2011, with a national tour to follow.


Playbill article

So...it's an original musical about multi-cultural (?) cheerleaders produced by Universal and using the name of a series of Universal movies about cheerleaders but not their characters or plots.

From the Times article:

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In a telephone interview, Mr. Whitty said that the new musical would not be a direct adaptation of any of the ?Bring It On? movies, and would tell a new story. ?It?s this really crazy world of high-school cheerleaders, but it?s a bit of a comic tale of revenge and ambition,? he said. (For ?Bring It On? diehards, that means the manic choreographer Sparky Polastri is not necessarily guaranteed a role in the show.)

Noting the presence of the various ?In the Heights? principals on the creative team, Mr. Whitty added that the show is ?definitely a big cultural mash-up.?

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If Lin Manuel Miranda is involved does that mean this will not appeal to nerdy suburban 17 year old white girls?

I think using the same name as the movie is a bad idea, personally.

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