The script was written for Lydia to be putting on a show and getting into a conflict with Sherwood. But when Debbie Allen's father died, she was written out and replaced by the character of Mr. Reardon.
In the sequence in which Leroy walks out of Sherwood's class, Valerie Landsburg is seen wearing the same pink shirt with Burgundy accents worn by Tommy Aguilar during the final musical number in the pilot, Metamorphosis (1982).