'You've got big dreams. You want fame. Well fame costs and right here's where you start paying....', dance teacher Lydia Grant warns the students of New York's celebrated dream factory, The High School for the Performing Arts.

Starring Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant, Lee Curreri as Bruno Martelli, Cynthia Gibb as Holly Laird, Erica Gimpel as Coco, Albert Hague as Shorofsky, Billy Hufsey as Christopher Donlan, Carlo Imperato as Danny Amatullo, Carol Mayo Jenkins as Sherwood, Valerie Landsburg as Doris, Gene Anthony Ray as Leroy, Ken Swofford as Quentin Morloch

As the students reassemble for a new term, the recently-appointed Vice-Principal makes it known that there will be some dramatic changes at the school. Two talented and ambitious freshmen battle for a place in the spotlight, while Bruno receives some devastating news which puts his future career in jeopardy.

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