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High School Musical
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Directed byKenny Ortega
Written byPeter Barsocchini
Produced byDon Schain
Bill Borden
Barry Rosenbush
StarringZac Efron
Vanessa Anne Hudgens
Ashley Tisdale
Lucas Grabeel
Corbin Bleu
Monique Coleman
Music byDavid Nessim Lawrence (score)
Andrew Seeley (songwriter, "Get'cha Head in the Game")
Distributed byDisney Channel
Release dateJanuary 20 2006
Running time87 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5 million

High School Musical is a Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) with choreography by Kenny Ortega, Charles Klapow, and Bonnie Story. The film tells the story of two students, Troy, who is the captain of his school's basketball team, and Gabriella, a shy new student. Together, they try out for the lead parts in their school musical. Despite some students' attempts to thwart their dreams, Troy and Gabriella persist and inspire others along the way. gabriela has a fat assssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss[vanessa anne hudgens

Release Dates

  • The movie premiered on the Disney Channel in the U.S.A. on January 20, 2006. It was dubbed into Spanish and premiered in Brazil on July 30, 2006 and in Latin America on August 6, 2006. The songs remained in their original English versions.
  • The movie premiered on Disney Channel Asia on June 25, 2006 after its success in other countries.

Characters

A longer cast list may be found here

Main Characters

Troy Bolton

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Zac Efron as Troy Bolton

Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) is the captain of the Wildcats basketball team and his father is the coach. Troy has a great voice but doesn't know about his talent until he sings in front of people at a party with Gabriella. He is dedicated to his basketball playing and, during the course of the movie, develops a great interest and devotion to his singing.

Gabriella Montez

Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) moves to New Mexico after Winter Break vacation, and only knows one person: Troy Bolton, who she met at a ski lodge in Colorado. She is extremely smart, though she doesn't want to again be labeled as the school's "freaky math girl". Gabriella has a great voice, and once performed in church choir, but realizes she has tremendous stage fright. In the end, with a little help from Troy, she manages to overcome it.

Sharpay Evans

Sharpay "Ice Princess" Evans (Ashley Tisdale) is an egotistic girl hooked on doing anything to get what she wants. In the movie she is the most known in the school. Sharpay is head of the drama club and seems somewhat jealous of Gabriella. At the beginning of the movie it appears as if she likes Troy; however, Zeke has a crush on her, and Sharpay ends up liking him at the end of the movie because of how good his baked cookies are. She also ends up being the understudy Gabriella for the Winter Musical. She proudly flaunts the fact she and her brother have starred in seventeen of the school's productions.

Ryan Evans

Ryan Evans (Lucas Grabeel) is mostly pushed to the side to let Sharpay into the picture. Ryan is not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. He can often be very ditzy at times and is the nicer of the two. In the movie, not many details about this character are revealed, but one can conclude he is extremely flamboyant. He also goes along with Sharpay's plans, because he doesn't really know what to do without her. It can be concluded also that, aside from Sharpay, he has no other friends and is visibly intimidated by the jock crowd. (Sharpay cuts through the group, but Ryan goes around, he avoids eye-contact with Chad, and is more upset that the 'Jocks rule most of the student body, but if Troy makes it to the auditions, then they've conquered the entire student body' than Sharpay is about them making it to the callbacks)

Chad Danforth

Chad Danforth (Corbin Bleu) is Troy's best friend and member of the Wildcats basketball team. From the start he's a little selfish and isn't very supportive of the 'singing thing' because he wants to win the upcoming big game more then wanting to help his friend. But then he comes to see that singing is something that Troy truly enjoys and so Chad throws his support to his best friend's audition endeavour.

Taylor McKessie

Taylor McKessie (Monique Coleman) is the leader of the school scholary/science club. She befriended Gabriella when she came to the school and convinced her to join the scholastic club. While she at first tried to stop Gabriella from singing, she eventually ended up supporting her new pal.

Minor Characters

Ms. Darbus

Ms. Darbus (Alyson Reed) is the harsh drama teacher at East High. Her nemesis is Coach Bolton, and she will only ease up on talented singers. Her lack of knowledge for sports is prominent. She likes to pronounce 'musical' with a flourish.

Coach Bolton

Coach Bolton (Bart Johnson) is the Wildcats' coach and Troy's dad. He is a champion basketball player. His nemesis is Ms. Darbus.

Kelsi Neilson

Kelsi "Play Maker" Neilson (Olesya Rulin) is the pianist for the East High Winter Musical, and is the composer of the songs "What I've Been Lookin' For" and "Breaking Free". Kelsi is not the most confident person as noted by her reaction to Sharpay's comment that Kelsi knows nothing about musicals. Kelsi is of great assistance to Troy and Gabriella by playing the piano while they practiced for the callbacks.

Zeke

Zeke (Chris Warren Jr.) is a member of the Wildcats Basketball team. He is obsessed with baking (revealed during Stick to the Status Quo), and at the end of the movie Sharpay starts to like him for his excellent skills.

DVD

High School Musical was released on DVD on May 23 2006. Entitled High School Musical: Encore Edition, the DVD includes both original and sing-along versions. The DVD broke sales records when 1.2 million copies were sold in its first six days making it the highest selling direct to video movie of all time.

The High School Musical DVD was also released in Australia on July 12 2006 through Walt Disney.

Bonus features

  • Learning the Moves featurette led by director/choreographer Kenny Ortega ("Bop to the Top")
  • Never-before-seen music video "I Can't Take My Eyes off of You"
  • "We're All in This Together" music video
  • The Making of High School Musical

DVD chapters

  1. Opening Titles
  2. Back to School
  3. "Get your Head in the Game"
  4. Auditions
  5. "What I've Been Looking For" (Reprise)
  6. "Stick to the Status Quo"
  7. A Private Conversation
  8. Interventions
  9. The Truth Is Revealed
  10. Working Together
  11. "We're Breakin' Free"
  12. "We're All in this Together"
  13. "Start Of Something New"
  14. "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You"

Charting

Billboard also has Top DVD Sales which High School Musical has charted on.

U.S. Billboard Top DVD Sales
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09
Position
1
2
6
8
8
13
10
5
6

Soundtrack

Main article: High School Musical Soundtrack

The soundtrack was released on January 10 2006 and debuted at number 143 on the Billboard 200, selling 6,469 copies in its first week. In the album's third week, for the chart dated February 11 2006, it climbed to number ten, and has since risen to number one on the Billboard 200 twice (on March 1 and March 22) and had shipped 3.5 million copies. Out of those copies, more than 2.8 million copies have been sold by August 2006; it was certified triple platinum by the RIAA.

The soundtrack was released in Australia on May 27 2006 by EMI. In the album's seventh week it reached the number one position on Australia's ARIA Album Charts for the week dated July 31 2006 and has been certified gold, selling 35,000 units in total.


Awards

  • On July 6, 2006, High School Musical received 6 Emmy Award nominations, including: Outstanding Casting, Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Choreograph, Outstanding Children's Program, and two nods for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for the songs "Breaking Free" and "Get'cha Head In The Game". The Emmy Awards will be held live on Sunday, August 27 at 8 on NBC.
  • Teen Choice Awards has given High School Musical 4 nominations, including: Choice Comedy/Musical, Best TV Chemistry - Zac Efron + Vanessa Anne Hudgens, and two nods for Choice Breakthrough Artists for Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens. The Teen Choice awards will be held live on Sunday, August 20 at 8 on FOX.

Fandom

Errors

  • During the sequence when Troy is heading to the first audition, his shoes switch between blue shoes with white accents and white shoes with blue accents.
  • During the intervention scene, the screen says "Recieving Wi-Fi Signal"--ironic since this is a scene with the smartest students in the school.
  • During the intervention scene, when Gabriella enters the cafeteria carrying a lunch tray, and passes Troy, she sits down. The shot then switches to Troy walking off then back to Gabriella, where her lunch tray has disappeared from sight.
  • Troy mentions to Gabriella that his friends don't know his rooftop hide-out exists. And yet they easily find Troy to tell him that they're the reason Gabriella stopped talking to him.
  • In the story, Troy and Gabriella had never sung "Start of Something New" before, but by the second half of the song they are not looking at the words on the screen.
  • Again, when Troy and Gabriella are singing "What I've Been Looking For" they are not looking at the lyrics.
  • Sharpay's name is the only one for the pairs on the audition list.
  • During "Stick to the Status Quo", Sharpay turns to begin to walk down the stairs, but in the next wide shot of the cafeteria, she is at her post at the middle of the balcony. When it goes back to her she is halfway down the stairs.
  • During the scene in Mrs. Darbus's classroom, while Chad is talking to Troy, Chad is wearing a watch, but when he goes and see Troy at his locker in the next scene he has no watch on.
  • During the scene of We're All in This Together troy has a jacket on, then off, then on again

Stage Musical

It was announced in Playbill on August 1, 2006 that Stagedoor Manor — the summer theatre camp made famous by the movie "Camp" — will be home to the first stage production of Disney's original movie "High School Musical."

Disney Theatrical Productions and Music Theater International granted the first license of the amateur stage production to the Loch Sheldrake, New York program, which is slated to perform in August. The part of Troy will be played by Jordan Campbell and the part of Gabriella will be played by Andrea Ross.

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