STOP EVERYTHING: Center Stage 3 Is Happening
You guys. Our entire office is on the verge of hyperventilating right now, because we just found out that there is a third Center Stage movie in the works.
I REPEAT: THERE IS A THIRD CENTER STAGE MOVIE IN THE WORKS.
And here’s the thing: It sounds like it might actually recapture some of the magic of the original.
How, you ask? What could this threequel—which is titled Center Stage: Dance Camp and has a yet-to-be-announced premiere date on Lifetime—possibly do to top this…
…and this…
…and this…
…and, oh lord, this???
Well, it could involve a whole mess of Center Stage and Center Stage: Turn It Up stars, for starters. Word is that Cooper (Ethan Stiefel) and Charlie (Sascha Radetsky) and Jonathan (Peter Gallagher) and even Tommy (Kenny Wormald) will all be back for round three.
It could also bring in one of today’s up-and-coming dancers for a little extra sparkle. Someone like, say, Chloe Lukasiak, who has been tapped to play a dance prodigy (of course) named Gwen. This is perfect for several reasons, and one of them is that Chloe may or may not be Amanda Schull‘s baby sister.
Right? Do we see it?
Here, according to Deadline, is the plot of this latest Center Stage installment:
“Jonathan Reeves…is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy. [He] enlists his his top choreographers Charlie…, Cooper… and Tommy…to recruit dancers to compete at a camp where the winners will be selected to join the Academy.” [Gwen is one of the dancers at the camp.]
My heart, you guys. My HEART. I so, so want this to be good. I so, so need it to be worthy of the amazingness that is the original. (Center Stage: Turn It Up was…I mean, it just didn’t have the feet. Or the heart.) And I so, so hope Jody makes a cameo. Is she still a principal in Cooper Nielson’s company? Are she Charlie still together? Do they have beautiful dancing babies?* THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW.
Anyway, stay tuned. We will be obviously be monitoring this situation aggressively.
*Real talk: Their kids could potentially be teenagers by now. Has it seriously been that long, Center Stage? It feels like only yesterday that we first discovered how *on* you were.
