BRING IT ON – THE ALEXANDRA BIRMINGHAM’S ‘STAGE EXPERIENCE’ 2023

BRING IT ON

Newly-crowned Squad Captain, Campbell, is cheer-royalty at Truman High School. As she sets her sights on an unforgettable senior year, in an unexpected turn of events, she finds herself forced to move to the neighbouring hard-knock school, Jackson High. With the cards stacked against her, she forges an unlikely friendship with hard-working dance crew leader, Danielle. Working together, they form a powerhouse squad and prepare for the ultimate competition – the National Championships. Can they achieve the impossible?

The cutthroat world of competitive cheerleading meets the fierce rivalries of high school politics, friendship and romance in this bitingly relevant show that takes audiences on a high-flying journey packed with electrifying songs. The Tony Award-nominated Bring It On has been brought to life by a multi award-winning team, including story by Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q), music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights, Hamilton), music by Tom Kitt (Next To Normal) and lyrics by Amanda Green (High Fidelity).

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International.

All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

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STAGE EXPERIENCE

The Alexandra’s unique Stage Experience shows have been transforming and igniting the lives and careers of 2,000 cast and crew since 2003. Yet key to that entire experience is that each young person is learning to contribute to something bigger than themselves. Stage Experience is for the cast and crew, but the shows they make must be for the audience first. Stage Experience always brings together a large group of young people and gives them this one, same goal. They have to create a show that must in every way be exactly as professional and polished and involving as any other production staged by The Alexandra.

So each young person who joins Stage Experience will have learned specific, practical production skills ranging from acting and vocal techniques, to sound, lighting, wardrobe and the dozen more disciplines required for a show. Through working together for a common goal, though, they have also learned deeply important personal skills. They have learned skills that will stay with them no matter whether they stay working in theatre, move into any kind of production — or even leave the arts altogether.

It’s not as if the productions are chosen because they are easy, either. The very first Stage Experience show was an ambitious production of Guys & Dolls. Since then, the talented young people of the West Midlands have performed Fame, Summer Holiday, West Side Story, Bugsy Malone, Boogie Nights and more. The productions are all musicals, they are all large-cast shows, and they are also all stage shows with a strong emotional heart. Each show stays in the memories of its audience, and the aim is that each show will also create lifelong memories for its cast and crew.

Some performers will never have been on a stage before, and some may not even have had the opportunity of going to the theatre. For them all, it is a whirlwind of learning, of creating, and of performing to the standard required of a commercial theatre in Birmingham. Stage Experience changes lives. You can see that in the faces of all its casts and crews, but it’s also launched such disparate talents as stand-up comic Joe Lycett and “Wicked” star Liam Doyle. They started on this stage, they started as part of Stage Experience, and The Alexandra is proud to continue helping the youth of the West Midlands reach their ambitions.