Kylie Bushman of Adrian plays the coach’s daughter Eleanor. Gym teacher Coach Dunbar is played by Megan Clark of Ypsilanti, with Kylie McElrath of Clinton filling the role for one performance. The high school principal is played by Bennice Byles of Adrian. “Bad boy” Chuck Cranston is played by Ben Logue of Bowling Green, Ohio, with Caleb Handy of Palmyra and Matthew Antalek of Adrian as his sidekicks Lyle and Travis.Ĭarolyn Cupp of Toledo and Carter Steude of Adrian play Ren and Ethel’s relatives, Lulu and Wes Warnicker. Ren’s friends are Maxwell Lam of Ypsilanti as Willard Hewitt, Abraham Nixon of Monclova, Ohio, as Jeter, Ben Bascuk of Waterville, Ohio, as Bickle, and Luke Gorsuch of Jackson as Garvin. Moore Cyndy Brookover (Toledo) as his wife, Vi and Aiyanna Fivecoat (Adrian) as their daughter, Ariel.Īriel’s friends are played by Gabrielle Blondin of Linden as Rusty, Anjewel Lenoir of Adrian as Urleen, and Elise Brown of Sylvania as Wendy Jo.
The production features an eye-popping 52 people in the cast, including Griffin Yeater (Adrian) as Ren, Megan Beckett (Toledo) as Ren’s mother, Ethel D. For example, referencing Diet Coke was OK, because that beverage came out in 1983, but a reference to Wikipedia had to be changed to Cliff’s Notes.
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Pifer and her team decided to set the story in the year the movie came out, which meant needing to make sure everything in the stage version dated to that time. Moore confronts Griffin Yeater as Ren in a scene from "Footloose" at the Croswell Opera House. “You get insights into Ren’s character” through some of the music, Pifer said, and Ariel’s three friends - Rusty, Urleen and Wendy - become something of a Greek chorus, advancing the plot through song.ĭ. The new songs written to round out a full-fledged stage show fit in well with the tunes everyone knows from the movie and benefit the story in different ways. The storyline hews closely to the film, to the point that a fair amount of the dialogue is straight out of the movie, “with, of course, way more dancing and singing than was in the movie.” “The songs people remember from the (1984) movie are all here, and some of the iconic Kevin Bacon dance moves,” Erin Pifer, who directs the Croswell’s production, said. Gabrielle Blondin as Rusty, Aiyanna Fivecoat as Ariel, Anjewel Lenoir as Urleen, Elise Brown as Wendy Jo, and Griffin Yeater as Ren are pictured in a scene from "Footloose" at the Croswell Opera House.Ī film remake in 2011 kept the basic plot and a few of the songs but added several new musical numbers.
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