Fandom/Canon Name: Bring It On - Miranda & Kitt/Green & Miranda/Whitty
What's awesome about it: It's a cheerleader musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda! It's very loosely based on the film of the same name starring Eliza Dushku, in that they are both about rivalry between high-school cheerleader teams, but the characters and plot are different. The songs are catchy and witty, all about young women being ferociously athletic and competitive, and about making mistakes, and rebuilding trust. I love that the focus of the musical is the creative and competitive endeavours of the women, while the men are basically the incidental love interests.
Where to find: The Broadway cast recording is fairly widely available, free on Spotify or (UK) Amazon Prime, or about £8 / $9 for a digital album. It's not the whole of the plot but Wikipedia fills in the gaps. I saw an amateur production locally earlier this year; there are videos of amateur productions of varying quality on YouTube.
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What's awesome about it: It's a cheerleader musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda! It's very loosely based on the film of the same name starring Eliza Dushku, in that they are both about rivalry between high-school cheerleader teams, but the characters and plot are different. The songs are catchy and witty, all about young women being ferociously athletic and competitive, and about making mistakes, and rebuilding trust. I love that the focus of the musical is the creative and competitive endeavours of the women, while the men are basically the incidental love interests.
Also worth noting that one of the supporting characters was played as trans on Broadway (although so subtly that I didn't pick it up from the cast recording alone)
https://www.out.com/entertainment/interviews/2012/08/01/gregory-haney-bring-it-musical-broadway
http://www.playbill.com/article/it-aint-no-thing-bring-it-on-the-musical-cheers-on-broadways-first-transgender-teen-character-com-196686
Where to find: The Broadway cast recording is fairly widely available, free on Spotify or (UK) Amazon Prime, or about £8 / $9 for a digital album. It's not the whole of the plot but Wikipedia fills in the gaps. I saw an amateur production locally earlier this year; there are videos of amateur productions of varying quality on YouTube.
For a free taster, there's the cast performance from the Tony Awards in 2013: https://youtu.be/KdehFSDhLOQ?t=56s or this Playbill "highlights" video: https://youtu.be/VJDfJeuY_g8