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January 29, 2008 - 3:18PM
Chandler High makes final cut for reality TV
Comments | RecommendStephanie Clarke, For the Tribune
Los Angeles casting producers have chosen Chandler High School’s class of 1988 as one of two finalists nationwide for the reality TV show “High School Reunion.”
The TV Land cable show will reunite high school classmates after 20 years, sending them to a tropical location for a two-week reunion.
Casting producers began searching all over the United States several months ago to zero in on high schools with large graduating classes and high test scores that were located outside major cities, casting producer Stacy Kitter said.
She declined to identify the other school in the running for the show.
Chandler High principal Terry Williams said academics are one of the things his school strives for. “We want to be number one here,” Williams said.
The principal and many Chandler High students said Tuesday they have not seen the reality TV show, which will start its fourth season in March. But many students said they would tune in if Chandler High’s alumni are chosen.
Williams said he has worked at the school since 1975 and could remember many of the students from the 1988 class.
“They’d be troublemakers,” he said with a smile, while flipping through an old yearbook in his office.
He said he would watch the show out of curiosity if his former students became reality TV stars.
“They are grown adults, but I still look to them as kids,” Williams said. “It’d be fun to go give them a hard time.”
Kitter said producers are looking for cast members anxious to relive their glory days, reestablish old ties or show off a new look or successful career. She said the ideal cast member would be someone who would like to go back in time and relive high school all over again.
“We are looking for a variety of people,” Kitter said.
Casting producers will visit the Valley next month to interview potential cast members for season five, which will air in 2009. Kitter said producers hope to make their decision by March and begin filming in May.
“Chandler High has made it all the way to a finalist because of how much interest and enthusiasm we’ve received from their graduating class of 1988,” Kitter said.
Producers have not yet decided where season five will be filmed, but Kitter said the setting will likely be somewhere tropical.
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