High School Musical is a Disney Channel Original Movie centering around the Albuquerque, New Mexico fictional East High School and their students. Filmed on location in Salt Lake City at the real East High School and Ogden, Utah, the movie (and their first two filmed sequels) are directed and choreographed by Kenny Ortega, who also worked on Disney's "Newsies" and "Hocus Pocus". Since the movie’s original premiere, it has become one of the centerpieces of Disney's "tween" (mostly girls between 6 and 13 years old) marketing, with the original soundtrack and DVD versions having gone multiple platinum. Two sequels and one spinoff have been made due to the success of the film, with High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Yearbeing released to positive reviews, and Sharpay's Fabulous Adventureto moderate reviews.
The film was aired on January 20, 2006.
Cast[]
- Zac Efron as Troy Bolton
- Vanessa Hudgens as Gabriella Montez
- Ashley Tisdale as Sharpay Evans
- Corbin Bleu as Chad Danforth
- Lucas Grabeel as Ryan
- Monique Coleman as Taylor
- Joey Miyashima as Dave Matsui
- Bart Johnson as Coach Bolton
- Olesya Rulin as Kelsi
- Chris Warren Jr. as Zeke
- Ryne Sanborn as Jason
- Kaycee Stroh as Martha Cox
- Alyson Reed as Ms. Darbus
- Irene Santiago-Baron as Chem Teacher
- Socorro Herrera as Lisa Montez
- Leslie Pomeroy as Mrs. Bolton
Songs Featured in the Series[]
- Start of Something New/Gina Version (The Auditions)
- Start of Something New/E.J. Version (The Auditions)
- Start of Something New/Nini Version (The Auditions)
- Stick to the Status Quo/Rehearsal (The Read-Through)
- What I've Been Looking For (Blocking)
- When There Was Me and You (What Team?)
- Get'cha Head in the Game (Opening Night)
- Stick to the Status Quo/Performance (Opening Night)
- Breaking Free (Act Two)
- We're All In This Together (Act Two)