Kay Panabaker and Asher Book star in Kevin Tancharoen's update of Alan Parker's 1980 musical about a group of young showbiz wannabes desperate to see their names up in lights. Jenny and Marco are among the latest intake of students at the New York Academy of Performing Arts, and whose stories are among those tracked through the highs and lows - and many, many song and dance routines - of their four-year course there. Also starring Debbie Allen and, as the Academy's teachers, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelsey Grammer and Megan Mullally.