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Katherine McNamara (New Year's Eve, the upcoming Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn), Kenton Duty ("Shake It Up") and Dan Flaherty ("Skins") will star in teen pic Contest. It's about a small town that revolves around the high school swim team and athletes rule the school. A cooking contest forces two kids - a bully and the kid he bullies -- to work together and as they progress, they become friends. But as the end of the contest nears and the stakes get higher, old feelings and resentments arise and it becomes unclear if the two are friends or enemies. 

Costars include Kyle Massey ("Hart of Dixie," "Cory in the House"), Chris Riggi (Vampires Suck, "Gossip Girl"), Raviv Ullman ("Phil of the Future"), Owen Teague (upcoming TV series "Malibu Country"), and Kelley Missal ("One Life to Live"). Filling out the cast is Joseph Harrington and Jake Schwenke ( both from "Billy Elliott:...

During every performance, Joseph Harrington gets to channel a bit of Peter Pan. He gets to fly.As part of his role as "Billy Elliot" on Broadway, he swings across the stage suspended by cables in one of the dance numbers. The effect is thrilling for the 11-year-old performer. "I almost forget I'm on the wire," said Harrington. "It just feels like I'm flying. It's really cool. I get butterflies when I do it." Yet these aerial theatrics involve less fairy dust than tremendous preparation—and nerve—on the part of both the actors and the riggers involved. Actress Nikka Graff Lanzarone says she had always wanted to fly on stage. As Marisa in the new musical "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," she gets her chance: Lanzarone—along with actresses Patti Lupone, Sherie Rene Scott and Laura Benanti—is pulled up in the air and sings while being suspended.