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Broadway hit The Prom is getting the Ryan Murphy treatment on Netflix, and our first look at the trailer is here. The project stars Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Kerry Washington, and Andrew Rannells (and that’s really just the beginning of the list of this star-studded cast) in what promises to be an uplifting, jazz-hand-saturated romp about acceptance and inclusivity. The Prom premieres on Netflix on December 11.

We didn’t think we’d see Meryl Streep having more fun in a role than when she played free-spirited expat Donna in the Mamma Mia! films, but The Prom takes her musical theater camp to a whole ‘nother level. Streep plays Dee Dee Allen who, along with Corden’s Barry Glickman are stars of Broadwhey. When their new show proves a flop they, along with fellow stage stars Angie Dickinson (Nicole Kidman) and Trent Oliver (Andrew Rannells), head to a small town in Indiana to strategically rehabilitate their images with some social activism by helping a teenaged girl named Emma attend her prom with her girlfriend, Alyssa. In early casting reports, Ariana Grande was slated to play Alyssa, but she has since been replaced with Broadway actor Ariana DuBose. Newcomer Jo Ellen Pellman plays Emma.

More than anything, the trailer feels like a celebration of, well, musical theater. The preview is full of pomp, though the circumstances of the film are left to the imagination — we understand that there’s a girl who just wants to go to the prom, and we understand that Streep and Co. are there to help with that; but for two minutes, we just get a spectacle of Murphy’s signature energy and sparkle running rampant across Indiana’a malls, high schools and monster truck rallies. Hopefully we’ll find out more when they release the next trailer on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.

That’s a monster truck rally joke, we actually don’t know when the next trailer will be released. Stay tuned!