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

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:37am

"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

[BwayBuff2]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:39am

Hmmm...

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:54am

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

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:58am

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

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:58am

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

[BroadwayBen]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:08am

But the way I read this, Jeff Whitty has come up with an original story. I don't think this is an adaptation.

[alightinthedark23]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:12am

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

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:19am

I'm SO excited for this!

[scaryclowns2232]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:23am

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?

[HollyGolightly2]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:52am

... Eh. Is anyone else not really excited to see a musical about cheerleading? I can hardly stand HSM, and it's about a school's theatre program. (Sort of.)

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:58am

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

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 1:17pm

Where does it say it's adapted from a movie?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 1:26pm

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

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 1:49pm

I'm completely confused. Is it based on the movie or not? Why does the press release say:

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

[Lumen2]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 1:56pm

Do these travesties never end?

[54streetDIVA]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 2:01pm

Bwaybuff2 they said the same thing about "Goldilocks"

[RyToast1]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 2:04pm

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

[Tom1071]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 2:16pm

Could someone please have an original idea?

Remember the days when it would be the movie that would be based on a hit Broadway play or musical?

Updated On: 9/23/09 at 02:16 PM

[Texas Yankee]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 2:30pm

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

[BroadwayBen]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 2:46pm

Here's what the Times is saying

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/three-cheers-bring-it-on-musical-in-the-works/

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 3:09pm

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.?

[blaxx]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 3:37pm

Well, Bring It On has...four sequels? So, this would be the fifth sequel (all of them with different plot and characters), but it will be a stage musical. Great (not).

Can't wait to update my "failed movies to musicals" list.

Updated On: 9/23/09 at 03:37 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 4:10pm

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

[Pgenre]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 4:17pm

LOL PRS!

Why does it take TWO Tony Award winning composers to write the music? Are 2 post 2000 Tony winning composers equal to 1 pre-2000 Tony winning composer? Is there really that much of a dearth of creativity? I don't get it.

P

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 9/23/09 at 4:19pm

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