Broadway's Peter Gallagher to Reprise CENTER STAGE Film Role for Lifetime Sequel

Deadline reports that Peter Gallagher, who most recently starred on Broadway in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, will rerpise his role of Jonathan Reeves in an all-new CENTER STAGE installment, subtitled 'Dance Camp' for Lifetime.

Production on the project is currently underway in Vancouver, Canada. A premiere date has not yet been announced.

Gallagher will be joined by CENTER STAGE alum Ethan Stiefel (Center Stage), Kenny Wormald (Center Stage: Turn It Up), Sascha Radetsky (Center Stage) and Nicole Muñoz (Center Stage: Turn It Up).

According to the site, in Center Stage: Dance Camp, "Jonathan Reeves (Gallagher) is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Nicole MunozAcademy and enlists his his top choreographers Charlie (Radetsky), Cooper (Stiefel) and Tommy (Wormald) to recruit dancers to compete at a camp where the winners will be selected to join the Academy. Bella Parker (Muñoz), who has always lived in the shadow of her hugely successful sister Kate, finally gets her chance to step into the limelight as one of the dancers recruited for the camp. Lukasiak plays Gwen, a talented dancer prodigy who competes at the camp."

Directed by Nicholas Hytner, the original CENTER STAGE film hit theaters in 2000 and followed a group of young dancers from various backgrounds who enroll at New York City's fictitious American Ballet Academy. It was followed up by the sequel Center Stage: Turn It Up which aired November 1, 2008, on the Oxygen Network.

Gallagher starred opposite Kristin Chenoweth in Roundabout Theatre Company's produciton of On the Twentieth Century. His other Broadway credits include The Real Thing (Clarence Derwent Award) and The Country Girl directed by Mike Nichols, Guys and Dolls (Drama Desk nomination), Long Day's Journey Into Night (Tony Award nomination), Noises Off, The Corn Is Green (Theatre World Award), Comden and Green's A Doll's Life directed by Hal Prince, Grease (original production), Hair.

Film work includes American Beauty (SAG Award); sex, lies and videotape and The Underneath by Steven Soderbergh; THE PLAYER and Short Cuts (Golden Globe) directed by Robert Altman; While You Were Sleeping; Dreamchild; The Idolmaker; upcoming: Hello, My Name Is Doris. Television credit include "The OC," "Law & Order: SVU," "Togetherness," "Covert Affairs," "Californication," "Rescue Me." Recordings: 7 Days In Memphis, Pal Joey, Guys and Dolls. Solo show: How'd All You People Get in My Room.

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