![]() ![]() Yet the writing team is thoroughly upstaged by director/choreographer Andy Blakenbuehler, a Tony winner in his own right for the choreography of In the Heights. Sure, the Kitt-Miranda score (with lyrics by Amanda Green and Miranda) has its moments, particularly when we abandon lily-white Truman High School for hipper hip-hop milieu of déclassé Jackson High. So there were likely heavyweight aspirations when the new team was assembled to transform Hollywood schlock into Broadway gold. Jeff Whitty, the Tony Award winner for the book of Avenue Q, is on board as librettist Tom Kitt, who co-writes the score, won his Tonys (plus a Pulitzer) for his composing and arranging talents on Next to Normal and Lin-Manuel Miranda, co-writing both the score and the lyrics, picked up his Tony for In the Heights. But the producers, led by Universal Pictures Stage Productions, bring an all-star team aboard to lift the story of rival cheerleading teams and enhance the musical pulse. The lightweight teen comedy, written by Jessica Bendinger, was released in 2000 to a conspicuous lack of critical acclaim or mass appeal. As you might surmise from the title, Bring It On: The Musical is based on a motion picture, one you likely never heard of. ![]()
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