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Aug. 7th, 2012 12:13 pmSo there were three of us last night at Bring It On, THE CHEERLEADING MUSICAL:
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fahye, who had traveled around the world to see a Broadway show, and gotten up twice at 4:30 AM, and waited seven hours to get tickets, and been thwarted three times over by adverse schedules and surprise thunderstorms and dark theaters, and was ready to believe that New York had it personally in for her to prevent her from EVER SEEING A SHOW EVER;
littledust, who had managed to find THE ONLY musical playing on a Monday night in New York and gotten us there by sheer force of willpower;
andbookelfe, who had had her contact lens blown dramatically away by the wind an hour previous, and was therefore going to be squinting through one eye for the entire length of the show, but after everything else was willing to chalk this up as a sacrifice to the Theater Gods.
And we all walked out gleeful and delighted and singing, so that should tell you something, and that something is that Bring It On: The Musical is like a shot of sparkles right in the arm.
The short version: it's about LOVING WHO YOU ARE NO MATTER WHO THAT IS! and girls who are best friends or quite possibly in love! and flying through the air with the greatest of ease! and the TINIEST SPARKLIEST PSYCHOPATH OF ALL!
It's also kind of inherently about about a white girl who learns important life lessons from her ethnic friends, so, you know. On the other hand, the show-writers are super aware of this and do everything within their power to lampshade and deflate the problematic tropes that they're juggling. Also there is that moment when the geeky, awkward white cheerleader is lamenting how nobody can understand what it's like to feel like you never fit in, and the black trans cheerleader steps up and radiates ARE YOU EVEN KIDDING ME at her until she gets it, and it is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen on a New York stage. (THERE IS A TRANSGENDER CHEERLEADER! it's not a big deal! she's just great!) Bless you, Lin-Manuel Miranda. BLESS YOU.
That is the short version! SPARKLES. For the long version with detailed spoilers, ( READ ON. )
fahye, who had traveled around the world to see a Broadway show, and gotten up twice at 4:30 AM, and waited seven hours to get tickets, and been thwarted three times over by adverse schedules and surprise thunderstorms and dark theaters, and was ready to believe that New York had it personally in for her to prevent her from EVER SEEING A SHOW EVER;littledust, who had managed to find THE ONLY musical playing on a Monday night in New York and gotten us there by sheer force of willpower;and
bookelfe, who had had her contact lens blown dramatically away by the wind an hour previous, and was therefore going to be squinting through one eye for the entire length of the show, but after everything else was willing to chalk this up as a sacrifice to the Theater Gods.And we all walked out gleeful and delighted and singing, so that should tell you something, and that something is that Bring It On: The Musical is like a shot of sparkles right in the arm.
The short version: it's about LOVING WHO YOU ARE NO MATTER WHO THAT IS! and girls who are best friends or quite possibly in love! and flying through the air with the greatest of ease! and the TINIEST SPARKLIEST PSYCHOPATH OF ALL!
It's also kind of inherently about about a white girl who learns important life lessons from her ethnic friends, so, you know. On the other hand, the show-writers are super aware of this and do everything within their power to lampshade and deflate the problematic tropes that they're juggling. Also there is that moment when the geeky, awkward white cheerleader is lamenting how nobody can understand what it's like to feel like you never fit in, and the black trans cheerleader steps up and radiates ARE YOU EVEN KIDDING ME at her until she gets it, and it is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen on a New York stage. (THERE IS A TRANSGENDER CHEERLEADER! it's not a big deal! she's just great!) Bless you, Lin-Manuel Miranda. BLESS YOU.
That is the short version! SPARKLES. For the long version with detailed spoilers, ( READ ON. )
