A new choreographer and producer have shaken things up this year at the Miss Mississippi Pageant with a new production.

Hired in January, producer Jaynie Fedell and choreographer Taylor Thomas Hoseman had just about four months to bring the show together, and they feel confident in their choices even with eight months less planning time than desired.

“We’ve been working non-stop,” Fedell said.

She said there has been no stress in the final days leading to the show; it’s just been exciting and busy working non-stop.

“We don’t want stress because we’re got work to do, we’ve got things to do, we’ve got problems to solve,” Fedell said. “We don’t have time to stress.”

Fedell was adamant she didn’t want the show to have a theme but more of an overarching concept to bring it all together. Hoseman chose to make the concept simply about the night of the pageant because it is the show’s catalyst.

The concept is called “Take Back the Night,” with songs by Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, One Direction, Outkast, The Temptations, Aerosmith and more.

“We have a wide variety of people in the audience so you try to pick one song for this group and one song for that group — an eclectic mix of music,” Hoseman said.

She said there are two goals when it comes to creating a pageant, one is for the contestants vying for the crown and the other is to highlight the reigning queen.

“We think of ways to showcase her, and when I’m setting choreography and planning the show, I’m thinking how I am going to showcase the contestants,” Hoseman said.

Miss Mississippi 2015 Hannah Roberts is incorporated throughout the show playing multiple genres of music on her violin.

It may seem like a difficult task to integrate a violinist into a contemporary numbers, but Roberts is a staple in the show playing classical, contemporary and rock and roll pieces.

“We definitely molded a lot of the show based on the fact that she was a violinist and what we could do to show off her talents,” Hoseman said.

Another change to this year’s show is that it is more geared toward the television audience.

Instead of putting a stage show on television, Fedell said she is creating a television show with cameras on stage and live shots from the audience. Plus the show will be bookended with production numbers.

“We just got to take it to a different level,” Fedell said.

The first steps, she said, were to plan the show, put together a budget and hire a crew to make it happen. She said she hired people onto the project as late as last week.

“We got people doing wardrobe, we got people setting things up for us, we’ve got a TV crew, a lighting crew, a sound crew,” Fedell said.

She said the show would continue to evolve daily and the pageant will evolve yearly.

“We still have a lot more changes,” Fedell said.

Hoseman said she wants to get started planning next year’s show immediately following the finale and said she plans to have live dance auditions in Vicksburg this January.

“We’re really excited about it,” Hoseman said, adding she is proud to work with the pageant for the state of Mississippi and especially for her hometown of Vicksburg.