More like high school drama class forever.

So were not going to like break out into song and tell the story through song.

People connect with what they connect to, she says.

Rise - Season Pilot

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Our cast is so diverse, as well as our characters, racially as well as in sexual orientation.

What our show really shows is America today.

And if that doesnt connect to people then I dont know what does.

Cravalho also teased her character Lilette Suarez.

Shes not one thats in the spotlight necessarily.

Jeffrey Seller, one of the producers ofHamilton,is executive producing.

Even better, Cravalho promises well be getting a contemporary Broadway favorite in the first season.

Risewill make a midseason premiere on NBC.