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High School Musical
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Directed by	Kenny Ortega
Written by	Peter Barsocchini
Produced by	Don Schain
Starring	Zac Efron Vanessa Hudgens Ashley Tisdale Lucas Grabeel Corbin Bleu Monique Coleman
Cinematography	Gordon Lonsdale
Edited by	Seth Flaum
Music by	Greg Cham Roy Cham Andy Dodd Faye Greenberg Jamie Houston David Lawrence Adam Watts Matt Gerrard Drew Lane Eddie Galan Andrew Seeley
Distributed by	Disney Channel
Release dates	January 20, 2006
Running time	98 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$5 million (est.)

Summary

Template:Spoiler Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez, two complete strangers, both attend a New Year's Eve party at a ski lodge over Christmas Break. They are randomly chosen to sing "Start of Something New", for karaoke, and have amazing chemistry. They exchange numbers, promising to call each other, and a week later find out they both attend the same high school, after Gabriella's mother transfers her to East High in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Meeting again in homeroom, Troy, who is the captain of the basketball team, tries to call Gabriella to let her know he's there, and winds up getting detention, along with Gabriella, his best friend and teammate Chad Danforth, scholastic decathlon captain Taylor McKessey, and Drama Club co-presidents Ryan and Sharpay Evans.

After homeroom, Troy and Gabriella see each other and start to re-introduce themselves. They see the sign-up sheet for the winter musical auditions. Sharpay finds them and assumes that Gabriella wants to sign up. She and Ryan look up Gabriella Montez in a search engine on the internet and find that she is an "Einsteinette". They put the article on Gabriella's academic achievements at her previous school into Taylor's locker. During detention, Taylor approaches Gabriella and invites her to join the school's scholastic decathlon team.

As a result of the detention, both Troy and Chad miss their basketball practice, much to the annoyance of Coach Bolton. During a confrontation between the coach and Ms. Darbus, it is made clear that neither of them has any real respect for the work that the other does. Troy eventually takes part in basketball practice, but he can't seem to stop thinking about Gabriella ("Get'cha Head in the Game").

Troy skips basketball practice during free period to go to the auditions, which Gabriella also attends. However, both are too shy to come forward, so they hide behind a janitorial rolling cart as Sharpay and Ryan perform "What I've Been Looking For". When Gabriella finally decides to audition, Troy offers to sing with her, but Ms. Darbus says it is too late.

After a confrontation with Sharpay, Kelsi Nielson, the composer of the musical, trips and drops her notes and piano music. Troy and Gabriella rush to help her, and she offers to let them hear how the song was supposed to sound. Troy and Gabriella then sing the slower version of the song, "What I've Been Looking For". Ms. Darbus hears them from behind the auditorium entrance and gives both Troy and Gabriella a callback. The next day, Sharpay sees the callback sheet and is furious. Once Chad and all the basketball players find out that Troy skipped basketball practice to audition for the musical, they all are shocked.

At lunch, everyone has learned that Troy is doing something highly out of basketball players' nature, and the students start confessing their secret passions and talents ("Stick to the Status Quo"). Gabriella slips and accidentally spills her lunch all over Sharpay's shirt. Sharpay is convinced that Troy and Gabriella are trying to destroy the musical.

Troy asks Gabriella to meet him in his secret hideout, the balcony of a greenhouse. There, she reveals that singing with him at the party was like meeting a new friend at kindergarten; he felt like a best friend although she hardly knew him.

Chad and Taylor decide that they need to devise a plan so that everything can go back to normal. The basketball team tricks Troy into saying that Gabriella isn't important while she watches them through a wi-fi link. Gabriella is hurt and confused about where she and Troy now stand ("When There Was Me and You"). Troy tries to talk to Gabriella as normal, but Gabriella tells him she does not want to do the musical anymore and that it was never really important to her.

After feeling guilty about ruining Troy and Gabriella's friendship, and noticing that they are no longer interested in the basketball game or the decathlon, Chad and Taylor decide to tell them the truth. Chad, Zeke, and Jason explain everything to Troy in the greenhouse and offer to support him at the callbacks. Taylor and the scholastic decathlon team tell Gabriella what they did, but Gabriella is still angry and hurt because of what Troy said, convinced that he meant it. That night, Troy goes to Gabriella's house, but she pretends to be busy with homework. Troy phones her from her backyard, telling her that the guy she met on vacation is much more like him than the guy that "said that stupid stuff". He climbs onto her balcony and starts singing the harmony of "Start of Something New" in attempt to persuade her to go to the callbacks with him. Gabriella then forgives him, and they start practicing the callback piece.

Soon Sharpay overhears Gabriella and Troy practicing, and feels intimidated by the competition. She convinces Ms. Darbus to change the callbacks to the same time as the basketball championship and scholastic decathlon. When Kelsi finds out, she and the others are devastated, but the scholastic and basketball teams and Kelsi work together to come up with a plan.

On the day itself, Taylor and Gabriella send a code by computer into the system to disrupt the basketball game, and boil a hazardous chemical to stall the decathlon. Troy and Gabriella then rush to the theater.

Sharpay and Ryan finish performing their song, "Bop To The Top", confident that they will get the part. Troy and Gabriella show up after Ms. Darbus has called their names twice, and she tells them again that they are too late. Many other students start streaming into the auditorium to support them and Ms. Darbus has no choice but to allow them to perform "Breaking Free." In the end, Ms. Darbus gives the parts to Troy and Gabriella. After winning both the scholastic decathlon and the basketball game, the entire school gathers in the gym to celebrate ("We're All in This Together").

After the celebrations, Sharpay finds Zeke alone in the gym and tells him that the cookies he made are the best things she has ever tasted. Zeke answers that he might even make her a crème brûlée. Template:Endspoiler

Cast

• Zac Efron as Troy Bolton
• Vanessa Anne Hudgens as Gabriella Montez
• Ashley Tisdale as Sharpay Evans
• Lucas Grabeel as Ryan Evans
• Monique Coleman as Taylor McKessie
• Corbin Bleu as Chad Danforth
• Olesya Rulin as Kelsi Nielsen
• Alyson Reed as Ms. Darbus
• Chris Warren Jr. as Zeke Baylor
• Bart Johnson as Coach Jack Bolton
• Ryne Sanborn as Jason Cross
• Kaycee Stroh as Martha Cox
• Socorro Herrera as Ms. Montez
• Joey Miyashima as Principal Dave Matsui

Release Dates

Concert Tour

The High School Musical: The Concert tour has been running since November 29, kicking off in San Diego, California. The tour is planned to continue until January 28th, playing in major cities around the United States and Canada. The concert will feature all of the original cast members except for Zac Efron, who is filming Hairspray in Canada. He will be replaced though by Drew Seeley. The concert features the original songs from the movie, as well as showcase songs from Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, and Corbin Bleu who all now have or will have solo material in the future.

The opening act for the concert was Jordan Pruitt. During the break, previews for the Disney Channel series "Hannah Montana" and "Cory In the House" were shown, as well as one for the Disney Channel Original Movie Jump In!. Music videos from Hannah Montana, Everlife, Vanessa Hudgens, the Cheetah Girls, Ashley Tisdale, Hilary Duff, Jordan Pruitt and Drew Seeley were shown as well.

Awards

Book Series

In June 2006, Disney Publishing released High School Musical: The Junior Novel. This novel sold many copies, making it a best seller and leading to a "Stories from East High" book series. In 2007, Disney Publishing will release the new book series called "Stories from East High".

1. Battle of the Bands - February 2007
2. Wildcat Spirit - April 2007
3. Crunch Time - June 2007

Video Game

For more information, see High School Musical (video game)

Behind the Scenes Books

All in This Together: The Unofficial Story of "High School Musical", to be released in April 2007, gives a behind the scenes look at the production of movie and the cast.

See also

• High School Musical 2
• High School Musical Soundtrack
• High School Musical: The Theater Show

References

1. Tied with I Have Tourette's But Tourette's Doesn't Have Me

External links

• See High School Musical: The Theater Show for more information on the show of the same name.
• Official website at Disney Channel
• High School Musical DVDs Disney's Official High School Musical DVD site
• Disney Channel UK official website
• Disney Channel Asia official website
• Disney Channel's Official High School Musical India website
• High School Musical at IMDb
• East High School - The location of the movie shooting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• High School Musical: The Concert - Official Tour Site
• BBC Website
• Australian Site
• Requests for Licenses to perform High School Musical

• High School Musical
• 2006 films
• American films
• Children's films
• Disney Channel original films
• Emmy Award winners
• English-language films
• Films about music and musicians
• Musical films
• Teen films