The stage barely was cleared from the final performance of Easy Street Productions’ “Gotta Dance” last November when discussions started about bringing the show back this year.

“It was the day after the show last year when we realized how many walk-up ticket sales we got just in three days,” said choreographer Megan Cleland, who created and directed the dance-driven musical revue. “Last year, going into this, it was a title that nobody knows, so it’s a hard sell when you don’t have footage of what it’s going to be. We were just driving home the fact that it is one of those good, old-fashioned Easy Street variety shows, but it’s filled with all of your showstopper dance numbers.”

Once audiences got a chance to see the first performance, the growth in day-of-show ticket purchases was noticeable.

Cleland said the reaction was, “We’ve got to do this again. We had a chance to show people what this is about. It turned into this really wonderful thing.”

The program is the same as last year. Cleland, who has choreographed Easy Street Productions’ annual “Miracle on Easy Street” for the last 14 years and started dancing with the company as a teen, created dance numbers for such popular musicals as “Singing in the Rain,” “West Side Story,” Chicago,” “Cabaret” and “Cats.”

For this year’s production, it was more about tweaking and improving, such as revising lighting cues and changing some of the costume elements.

“I keep saying it’s ‘Gotta Dance 2.0,’ because it all feels a little bigger, a little better, just the thing that we had time to do this year that we didn’t last year,” Cleland said.

Dance is the focal point, but most of the numbers include vocalists with nearly everyone returning from last year. Singers for the show are Easy Street co-founders Maureen Collins and Todd Hancock joined by Brendan Boyle, Colleen Chance, Katy Collins, Natalie Kovacs, Robert Kozar, Mary Jo Maluso, James McClellan and Rosie Jo Neddy.

The production also includes several teen singers: Zoe Anderson, Hannah Harnutovsky, Kaden Primous, Eliza Primous, Rylen Primous, Jakob Primous and Georgie Zordich.

Providing live accompaniment will be The Easy Street Little Big Band, led by Don Yallech and featuring Rick Blackson, Terry Gale, Tim Winfield, Bill Forrester, Tim Harker, Matt Ferraro, Jeff Bremer and Lake Baum.

In addition to Cleland, the dancers are: Katelyn Bowen, Aliyana Broderick, Breyelle Brown, Julianna Brubaker, Emma Capogreco, Ava Carbon, Rachael Cleland, Tori Collins, Alaynna D’Angelo, Colleen Davis, Alex Hagood Derthick, Jayden Edington, Olivia Fennema, Alyssa Frank, Kaitlyn Frenger, Kiley Frenger, Alyssa Goist, Maddie Handel, Nomiki Kefalianos, Abbey Kunce, Leah Kovacs, Olivia Madura, Jillian Malish, Christine Marenkovic, Maddie Massuri, Matilda Mausteller, Macy Metzger, Emily Macklin Moore, Leeshy O’Connell, Taryn Patterson, Alexis Pomponio, Katherine Pomponio, Celeste Popio, Jimmy Puhalla, Emma Puhl, Jaylynn Racick, Jordyn Racick, Carmela Ragozzino, Gia Ramsey, Mia Sciola, Ava Semenovich, Brittany Sellers, Brooklyn Sellers, Larkin Stanford, Gia Stevens, Nicole Trimbur, Lena Zavadil, Gigi Zenobi and Georgie Zordich.

Cleland paused when asked if taking on more responsibility with “Gotta Dance” has changed her approach as a choreographer.

“I don’t think it’s impacted my work as a choreographer, other than the way that I think more about the big picture now,” she said. “Instead of thinking about how the dance looks in the room, I think a little more about how I can light it? Do I want this moment backlit? If I want this moment in silhouette, because it’s a little more moody, then how do I want them to be standing? How do I want them? It’s just, it’s given me a little bit more of a well-rounded brain. When I’m in the room, I can tell you, I have loved every minute of being more involved.”

And it’s something she hopes to have more opportunities to do in the future.

“I’m not a singer or an actor. That is not my forte, but I love to work with singers and actors. So yes, absolutely, I would love to dive more into it. Working with Todd and Maureen, Maureen helps me so much in the room, just getting more emotion out of these dancers that are just learning how to sing and emote while they’re dancing. This has been a big learning curve for the dancers. They’re used to just doing Happy Christmas dances for me.”