From Dream to Reality
Created by Monica Aldama and Andy Cosferent, Cheer Live gives fans of the Netflix series the opportunity to experience the sport in a unique way. "We have some storytelling, a lot of different concepts," Monica teased. "I think everyone's actually going to really love it. It's a whole new concept of cheerleading."
Life on the Road
After leaving the stage, the Cheer Live cast heads on a tour bus where it's one big happy family. "There are six bunks on each side just stacked on top of each other. They're on both sides and there's two sets of them," Maddy Brum described to E! News. "There's a lot of us and they told us to split the bus in two, but we didn't want to do that. We wanted to be together. So there's 12 of us on my bus and most of us all cheer together. It's a lot of fun and, obviously, we're all like brothers and sisters."
Champions Meeting Champions
When Olympic gymnast Simone Biles attended Cheer Live in Houston, Maddy couldn't hide her excitement. "We hung out at the show. She went into our dressing rooms. She was really, really sweet and it was really cool that she got to explain her gymnastics tour compared to our cheer tour and how they're so similar and how they're so different too," she shared. "We ended up going to get some dinner together with her and a bunch of other people in the cast. It was really, really nice."
Favorite Things
When it comes to picking her favorite part of the show, Monica can't decide on just one. "There is kind of a deeper moment in act two that I kind of got teared up the first few times I saw it so," she said. "The show also starts off with a throwback of cheerleading through the years, which I was like, ‘Oh, that's my favorite part. I'm old school. I cheered in the ‘80s. This is it.'"
Magic Moments
Maddy agreed that it's impossible to pick just one part of the show as a standout. "Every time we added a new number, we would say, 'That's my favorite part,'" she recalled. "I think we got the whole show and we're like, 'OK, maybe the whole show is just great.'"
Cheer's Impact
At the end of the day, Maddy is reminded why she loves the sport when she sees young, inspired fans in the audience. "It reminds us of our why. Why do I keep beating my body into the ground for 12 hours a day?" she joked. "Why do I keep doing it and then you go out on stage and you just see that one little girl that makes the eye contact with you. And it's like the best thing that's ever happened to her in her whole life and it can change your whole day."