You could say the boys (and girls) are back: “High School Musical” original Corbin Bleu (“Chad”), Monique Coleman (“Taylor”), Lucas Grabeel (“Ryan”), Bart Johnson (“Coach”) Bolton”), Alison Reid (“Ms. Darbus”) and Casey Stroh (“Martha”) have joined the cast of Season 4 of Disney+’s spinoff show “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series”.
The actors will reprise their own “High School Musical” roles after Disney announced that it would make the long-awaited “High School Musical 4: The Reunion” film at East High.
Season 4 will also see recurring guest stars Kylie Cantrell (“Gabby Duran and the Unsittables”), Matthew Sato (“Doogie Kameloha, MD”), Caitlin Reilly (“Hacks”) and Vasti Mompoint (“The Prom”).
Cantral to play social media star Dani; Sato will star as sitcom actor Mack; Reilly the indie film director is Quinn; And Mompoint choreographer will play the role of Crystal.
As previously reported, the show – Joshua Bassett as Ricky, Sofia Wylie as Gina, Dara Renee as Courtney, Julia Lester as Ashlyn, Frankie Rodriguez as Carlos, Kate as Miss Jane Liamani Segura as Reinders and Amy – will continue on her meta journey. As it leads its students in Season 4 to the halls of East High, where it all began.
The logline for the senior installment is as follows: “After an epic summer at Camp Shallow Lake, the Wildcats return to East High where they produce a stage production of ‘High School Musical 3: Senior Year’. But plans are then disrupted. When Principal Gutierrez announced that Disney had decided to make the long-awaited “High School Musical 4: The Reunion” film on location at his beloved high school.
The current East High Wildcat student will play an additional role in the film. Season 4 of the GLAAD Media award-winning series, produced and executive produced by Tim Federle, will feature original music as well as songs from the “High School Musical” franchise.
Earlier this month, Bassett said the new season was going to be great.
“It would blow people away. When we got the new script and everything, all the actors were nervous, so it’s so exciting. ‘High School Musical’ has made us…so to come back [the third film] Really special,” he said. “I personally think people are going to enjoy it, and I’m excited to see what we do with it.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time the original cast has made an appearance on the series. Grabiel made a cameo in Season 1, and Bleu returned for Season 3 as an enhanced version of his true self. Bleu — who had been involved in the series off-screen in earlier seasons — previously told TheWrap that Federal was instrumental in getting his head back in the game.
“They really made me so comfortable and part of the process to be able to feel comfortable coming back to the franchise,” Blue said. “I will always say, if I ever had to come back it would have been in the right conditions and he totally made it.”
