‘Cher Show’ tour at Brooks Center traces legendary singer’s high, lows, hits

According to the production’s director, “The Cher Show” is a complete biographical musical that traces the highs and lows of the legendary singer’s multifaceted career.

“It looks at Cher as a fully dimensional human being,” said Casey Hushion. “You see her vulnerability and her strength. Every time she gets knocked down, she gets back up and reinvents herself.”

The national tour comes to Clemson’s Brooks Center on Nov. 10.

Featuring more than two dozen hits from Cher’s 60-year career, the jukebox musical highlights the Goddess of Pop’s indomitable will to survive in a tough business — and always on her own terms.

Three performers play Cher throughout the years as the show breezes through such chart-toppers as “I Got You Babe,” “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves,” “Half Breed,” “Just Like Jesse James,” “Believe” and “If I Could Turn Back Time.”

“The audience can expect to hear all their favorites,” Hushion said, speaking from a rehearsal studio near New York City’s Times Square.

“The music is fantastic and there’s so much joy and energy in the show,” she added.

‘Strength and resilience’

Hushion spoke during a break in working with some new cast members for the tour’s second year on the road.

The musical, with a cast of two dozen, spotlights costumes by designer Bob Mackie, who won a Tony Award for the show.

“There are so many big dynamic production numbers in this show,” Hushion said. “They are incredible.”

A personal favorite for Hushion is “You Haven’t See the Last of Me,” a show-stopping anthem from the 2010 film “Burlesque.”

“It’s an inspiring song that embodies Cher’s strength and resilience,” Hushion said.

In a review of the original 2018-19 Broadway production of “The Cher Show,” David Rooney of the Hollywood Reporter called the musical “slyly fabulous and imbued with a plucky feminist spirit that’s quite stirring, basically recounting the story of how the innately shy Cherilyn Sarkisian stopped letting men tell her what to do and found the strength to run her own show.”

He added, “I had a blast.”