When Brandon Procell breaks out
his Chucks on stage as Ren
McCormack, you won’t be able
to keep your feet from moving.
That’s because Nixa High
School’s production Footloose is sure to be a funfilled
evening full of familiar songs as well as a few
numbers that the audience might not know.
“It’s a nice take on the story. The musical added
songs that connects scenes that were skimmed
over in the movie and really tells a much deeper
story than what people may know,” Procell said.
Rachel Curry, who plays Ariel Moore, agrees,
“The show goes more in-depth than the movie,
and the play gives the town a more community
feeling than the movie does. It seems more real
than the movie.”
The story of McCormack and the town he
ignites a dancing fever in is best known from Kevin
Kevin
Bacon’s performance in the 1984 movie. The
“Footloose” song, however, ignited a fire in the
Nixa community earlier this year when the Nixa
Police Department participated in the lip-sync
challenge and reached close to three million views
of their video.
Curry was excited for an addition to the show in
light of the Nixa PD’s unknown skills.
“We are having the Nixa Police in the show,
which is great because they did the police challenge
lip sync video this summer,” she added.
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With almost 90 students involved in the show,
it is one of the larger performances that Nixa has
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done.
“This show is a great time. There is an incredible
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amount of dancing in this show, and the cast is
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working their tail off. We have a live band for this
is
show too,” said Allison Fleetwood, director.
That live band is something Nixa hasn’t had in
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