Frome the Trooper website:

“It's an edgier, darker kind of a vibe,” Gough said of the corps’ recent productions. “In the old Trooper days, it was kind of the ‘John Wayne’ Troopers. And today, you might think about it more like the ‘Red Dead Redemption’ Troopers — like the video game — with kind of a modern look and feel.”

As this “universe” develops, the show concepts may vary. But according to Snyder, the goal of each of them is to exist within the same sphere of storytelling.

“It’s like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where there's different superheroes,” he said. “Our superhero happens to be a Trooper. That’s how we envision the show ideas. They still look like Troopers, but they're a little different, or they have a different superpower.”

By many measures, competitively and otherwise, recent iterations of Troopers have succeeded to that end. 2024’s “Dance with the Devil,” designers and leadership hope, is another step in an enticing direction.

Troopers’ 2023 program chronicled the journey of a cowboy as he sought to do the unthinkable, “To Lasso the Sun.” It resonated with drum corps fans and helped catapult the corps to one of its best competitive seasons ever — 10th place with a final score of 89.475, the corps’ highest tally in the DCI era.

The corps’ 2024 production, “Dance with the Devil,” intends to pick up where 2023 left off, and attempts to answer the question — how?

“The cowboy was striving for the impossible dream, even if he had to sacrifice himself to achieve the dream,” Gough said. “He would keep trying and failing, and then finally he achieved that, but it takes everything.”
2024 will bring new challenges and adventures for the Trooper character.

“Our show is about what would happen if you made a deal with the devil,” said Snyder, who added that fans can take the show title quite literally.

“We're going to dance with the devil in the show,” he added. “There's literally going to be a devil.”

REPERTOIRE INCLUDES…
“I Want You to Want Me” by Cheap Trick
”Music for Prague 1968” by Karel Husa
”You’ve Changed” by Billie Holiday
”Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson
”Bring Me To Life” by Evanescence

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