Kevin Bacon Will Attend This Year’s Prom at ‘Footloose’ School

In honor of Footloose’s fortieth anniversary, Kevin Bacon is returning to the highschool the place he shot the movie for promenade.

Current college students at Payson High School in Payson, Utah have been pushing for Bacon to make an look at this yr’s promenade, not solely due to the anniversary of the movie’s launch, but additionally as a result of Payson High School is transferring. The college is relocating at the top of this yr — which suggests the well-known hallways the place Bacon roamed because the iconoclastic, dance-loving Ren McCormack can be no extra. If he was ever going to return, it was now or by no means.

To attempt to to persuade Bacon to indicate up for the promenade, the present college students of Payson began a “#bacontopayson” hashtag and have been making selfmade movies on social media, recreating scenes from the movie, and internet hosting occasions to learn Bacon’s SixDegrees.org charity.

Today on The Today Show, Bacon gave Payson college students his reply. You can watch what he mentioned — and the scholars’ response — under.

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What did you suppose was going to occur? Bacon was going to go reside on The Today Show to inform a bunch of Utah highschool youngsters to buzz off?

Released in 1984, Footloose turned a shock hit and a generational favourite of ’80s youngsters all over the place. Bacon performs Ren, the brand new child in a small city that has banned dancing. He tries to get the city to reverse the ban, which was the brainchild of a neighborhood reverend performed by John Lithgow.

The well-known title music was carried out by Kenny Loggins, and the soundtrack additionally consists of the long-lasting ’80s favourite “Let’s Hear It For the Boy” by Deniece Williams. Footloose was remade in 2011 (Kenny Wormald performed Ren in that one) and likewise bought changed into a musical which performed over 700 performances on Broadway, beginning in 1998.

All these years later, the dancing scenes nonetheless maintain up.