Because so much happened while shooting the second season of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” creator Tim Federle didn’t want to overthink the third.
“We had COVID and shutdowns and Olivia music career exploding. It was a hard season, a long season,” he says, “so we just wanted to refresh and breathe and say to the audience, ‘Hey, it’s “High School Musical.’”In the third season, a group of East High Wildcats head to Camp Shallow Lake for a summer of theater fun. As a surprise, Corbin Bleu – one of the original “HSM” actors – turns up as himself, looking to film a documentary about summer camp.
For the young actors, it was “mind-blowing” to have him in the show, says Saylor Belle Curda, who plays Maddox. “He would give us these speeches – ‘I’m so glad that you guys are the ones continuing this.’ It’s absolutely insane and I couldn’t be more grateful for it.” Singing, dancing, acting? “There’s no faking it,” Earles says. “Nobody is pretending like they can dance when they can’t actually dance. I think there’s a level of authenticity now in these young performers. You could fake more stuff back in the day.”
Julia Lester, who plays Ashlyn on the show, just opened on Broadway in “Into the Woods.” The experience – something the “HSM:TM:TS” characters dream about – “is better than anything I could have ever pictured. I’m constantly pinching myself.”
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