Bring it On brought it

At the beginning of this year, I decided to change my New Year’s resolution to taking a class every month and attending live events every other month. Well, guess what? I didn’t like it! So, I am going back to my 2011 resolution, because that is what makes me happy! I am going to try to attend an event each month, but at the very least every other month.

Anyway, for the month of April, I returned to the theater! My friend Cheryl and I went to Blumenthal Theater to see Bring It On the Musical.

For those of you that aren’t initiated into the wonderful world of cheerleading movies, Bring It On was a movie starring Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union in the early 2000s as rival cheerleaders. A sequel came out later and apparently there have been 9 Bring it On Movies since then, most of them straight to DVD.

Anyway, on Friday the 13, my dear friend Cheryl and I headed to uptown Charlotte for the show. And what a show it was. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. When the lights went down, a high school gymnasium style Jumbotron counted down the last few minutes until the show began. You could feel the anticipation in the theater.

I don’t think I have ever ooed, ahhed and gasped as much in my entire life as I did for those few hours during the musical. The show was breathtaking. The dancing, cheers and stunts were out-of-this world amazing. The play’s story takes pieces from each of the Bring it On Movies to create two new main characters: Campbell and Danielle. Rich white girl is captain of the cheerleading squad at rich Truman High School. She thinks her life is over when she is transferred her senior year due to redistricting to urban Jackson High School. She struggles to fit in with the Jackson High dance crew. The musical adds its own characters and a 2011 touch. There certainly wasn’t Facebook and Skype chats in Kirsten Dunst’s day! The movie was not only about cheerleading but about loyalty, ethics, acceptance and most importantly friendship.

The soundtrack for this show is being released next week and I can’t wait to download my favorite song from the show, “Cross the line.”