High School Musical: The Musical: The Series Returns to Its East High Roots in New Season
Looking forward from center stage to graduation day, the Wildcats (past and present) are ready to revisit the past to get the future started. Season four of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is just around the corner, and Disney+ has given fans a small taste of what’s to come.
In season three, we left the Wildcats at Camp Shallowlake, where they all learned a little bit more about their dreams, relationships, and, ultimately themselves. This time around, the students of East High are getting more nostalgic than ever.
For this year’s school musical, the Wildcats are putting on High School Musical 3: Senior Year since most of the main cast is entering their final year of high school. However, plans quickly change when the student body learns that Disney is making High School Musical 4: The Reunion right at East High, and the students have been cast as extras.
Of course, a reunion wouldn’t be a reunion without the return of the original HSM cast members we know and love. So far, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Bart Johnson, Lucas Grabeel, Kaycee Stroh, and Alyson Reed are confirmed to return. There is speculation surrounding the return of Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron, who paid homage to the film trilogy last year when they posed a month apart in front of the school.
when there was me and you flashback sequence… we really won! y’all s4 might just be the end of ME #HSMTMTS pic.twitter.com/mi5zjbCr4e— kadi (@wylieswinx) June 8, 2023
Julia Lester (Ashlyn Caswell) expressed her excitement: “We’ve been manifesting it since day one, and here we are four seasons later, and we finally get to be with the OG Wildcat Group.”
“It was really special to share that…it was truly a beautiful thing and beyond what we were hoping for to have so many original people back,” mentioned Joshua Bassett (Ricky Bowen).
While the cast feels nostalgic with all of the OG cast members, they also welcome new faces this season. Kylie Cantrall from Descendants: Rise of the Red is set to portray a social media influencer who will stop at nothing to be a star, much like Sharpay Evans. Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.’s Matthew Sato’s character, is a sitcom actor who seems to develop a relationship with Gina.
Showrunner Tim Federle promises to have music, costumes, and even concepts from the original franchise but also urges fans to watch closely because there will be “easter eggs” in every episode. Federle stated, “Troy and Gabriela have these stories about being potentially pulled apart by circumstance and by growing up, and that’s exactly what Ricky and Gina are going through.”
gina’s getting evwrything she wanted <33333 #hsmtmts pic.twitter.com/xKOAkeve4F— gabby (@kqthonyfilms) June 8, 2023
“Those are all things we’re able to address in a way that I think celebrates the original franchise but puts a stamp on it in our own way,” he continued.
There is no release date yet, but season four of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is coming soon. Until then, check out the first three seasons, only on Disney+.
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