Shoutout From Kevin Bacon For High School 'Footloose' Production

BREWSTER, NY — Brewster High School's Performing Arts Department picked "Footloose, The Musical" for this spring's production — and someone found out.

"I just wanna say break a leg, jump back, all that kind of stuff," the star of the original movie told the cast in an Instagram post. "I know you guys are going to be fantastic."

"This is definitely six degrees," BHA drama teacher Andrea Perdicho told Patch.

One of Perdicho's friends and fellow teacher, Michelle Villano, rides horses. She told the owner of the stable about Brewster High School's upcoming production of "Footloose, The Musical," and he passed on an invitation to come to a performance to Kevin Bacon, also a local horse owner. Bacon couldn't come, but he did the Instagram video and sent it to Perdicho on Wednesday.

"At the end of the preview we got the cast and crew in, I plugged in my computer and there was his face on the curtain and all the kids screamed," she told Patch.

School officials shared it to the district's Instagram account — and since then, the school has been swamped with calls and visits from the media, she said before hanging up to go to another interview.

Opening night was Thursday. There's one performance at 7 p.m. Friday and two on Saturday, at 2 and 7 p.m. There are still some tickets left, she said. Admission at the door is $15 per person.

"Footloose, The Musical" is a 1998 show based on the 1984 film about a teenager who moves to a small middle-American town where dancing is illegal.