“I know we all have stories to tell, and here’s mine,” says 17-year-old Emma Nolan (Jo Ellen Pellman) in a new trailer for “The Prom.” The Netflix musical sees the Indiana highschooler crestfallen after her school’s PTA goes “apeshit” about her plans to bring her girlfriend (Ariana DeBose) to the prom, banning the couple from attending the event.
When a handful of New York City stage actors (Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman among them) get word of what happened, they hit the road with plans to “raise holy hell.” As Streep’s character explains, “We’re cultural disruptors.” The head of the PTA (Kerry Washington) is unimpressed with the newcomers, and wants to make one thing clear: “Your beliefs are not our beliefs,” she emphasizes. “You don’t know this town.” Emma, meanwhile, has “never felt so alone in her life.”
Emma and the actors team up to stage an alternative prom. “I’m going to take a stand for all the people out there who love someone in a way the world just doesn’t understand,” she declares.
Based on the Broadway musical of the same name, “The Prom” hits select theaters and Netflix December 11.
