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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.

Plot

Template:Spoiler Troy and Gabriella, without knowing each other, both go to a 'young adults' New Year's Party, while on vacation. They both get chosen for karaoke and "rock the house" with their song, "Start of Something New". Afterwards, Troy and Gabriella introduce themselves to each other, and then part company, but not before promising to call each other later (each having the other's number and picture on their cell phone).

Later, due to her mother's job being transferred to Albuquerque, New Mexico, Gabriella starts school at East High, not knowing that Troy also attends that same school. Troy is also the captain of the East High Wildcats basketball team, which is coached by Mr. Bolton, Troy's father.

Welcoming the students back from their holiday vacation, Ms. Darbus, their homeroom teacher and the drama teacher, encourages the students to sign up for the Winter Musical auditions, announcing that there would be singles auditions for the supporting roles and pairs auditions for the two leads. After class, Troy finds Gabriella after seeing her in class. It soon becomes evident that the two (and particularly Troy) both wish to sign up or, at least, hope that the other will do so first.

However, Troy sneaks out of doing basketball practice during free period, evading both his friend Chad and his father, to go watch the auditions. Gabriella shows up for the audition as well. Though late for the auditions, the two sing a song from the musical and both get callbacks.

Gabriella and Troy begin to feel the pressure that their stereotypes place on them. Gabriella is a super-braniac, and Troy is the star basketball player, and neither is considered a singer. Although moving to a new school has given Gabriella a chance to start over before anyone can label her a math geek, Troy struggles to get his dad to accept him singing in the musical.

Troy gets in trouble with his dad and his friends when he directs his attention towards the musical instead of basketball, especially since the Wildcats are gearing up for their big game in two weeks. Similarly, the scholastic decathlon team begs Gabriella to focus on their upcoming competition.

In addition, the dynamic duo Ryan and Sharpay Evans, who have always starred in the school musicals, are furious. Sharpay and Ryan refuse to have any competition, and do what they can to stop Troy and Gabriella from stealing 'their' parts in 'their' show.

The Decathlon team and the basketball team get together to split up Troy and Gabriella. Troy is confronted in the locker room by the entire basketball team and breaks down, telling them that he doesn't want to do the callbacks, not knowing that Gabriella is watching the whole thing on a laptop wirelessly in a different room.

Heartbroken, Gabriella stops talking to Troy, and Troy is puzzled as to why. Troy's basketball performance worsens, and both the Decathlon team and the basketball team feel guilty and finally admit to both Gabriella and Troy what they did. Gabriella, however, is not convinced

After finding why Gabriella won't talk to him, Troy goes and apologizes to Gabriella, telling her that he did not mean what he said and that he still wants to sing with her in the callbacks. Seeing that he's telling the truth, Gabriella agrees to sing with him in the callbacks.

Meanwhile, Ryan and Sharpay, as co-presidents of the Drama Club, have convinced Ms. Darbus to reschedule the auditions to the same time as the championship basketball game and the scholastic decathlon, and Ms. Darbus unknowingly changes it. The basketball team and the decathlon team have a plan of their own, however, to get Troy and Gabriella to the audition without missing anything.

Everything comes together on the final day - the callbacks, the basketball game, and the scholastic decathlon. Gabriella and her team compete in the scholastic decathlon. During the competition, they send a virus to the gym computer, which responds by causing the gym's lights and scoreboard to flicker and show incorrect scores. The game is halted, and everyone is asked to make an orderly exit. The decathlon team also send a virus to one of pieces of lab equipment to cause a chemical experiment to go bad, and release a pungent gas, forcing the competition to be delayed. At this point, both Troy and Gabriella are running to the callbacks.

Sharpay and Ryan have just finished performing their song, "Bop To The Top" with only a few people in the audience. Ms. Darbus calls for Troy and Gabriella, but they are unfortunately not there yet. Less than a minute later, they arrive, but Ms. Darbus says they are too late. The basketball and decathlon teams follow not far behind Troy and Gabriella and fill the auditorium to watch Troy and Gabriella. Ms. Darbus is forced to let them sing, having seen such an excellent display of 'showbiz' and determination from Troy, Kelsi, and Gabriella.

At first, Gabriella gets stage fright, but Troy reminds her to be who she wants to be. They perform the song "Breaking Free", leaving the crowd, including Ms. Darbus, cheering uncontrollably. Even Troy's dad and Gabriella's mom watch the song and are visibly proud. Everyone realizes that Troy and Gabriella are meant to sing together.

The Wildcats return to the gym, where the lights are working again, and they win the championship with a game-winning shot from Troy, giving a final game score of 68-67. While the Wildcats are celebrating, Gabriella comes in and tells Troy that her team won the decathlon. Filled with joy, Gabriella and Troy are just about to share a romantic kiss when they are interrupted by Chad, coming to give Troy the game ball. They try again but are interrupted by Taylor who was asked out by Chad.

Sharpay then comes up to Gabriella to congratulate her, telling her to "break a leg," which scares Gabriella until Sharpay tells her that that means "good luck" in theatre lingo. Everyone realizes that people should be able to do what they're truly passionate about, and not just stay in the stereotypes given to them by others. With this new philosophy, the whole school decides that they should support each other, singing and dancing in the final song, "We're All in This Together." Template:Endspoiler

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.
• The movie will premier on Disney Channel UK on September 22, 2006 at 6pm.

Characters

A longer cast list may be found here

Main Characters

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 Salt Lake City. She is extremely smart, though she doesn't want to again be labeled as the school's "freaky genius 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.is correct ?

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, much to Sharpay's obvious displeasure. She 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 Gabriella.

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 doesn't seem to understand the difference between a basket and a touchdown). 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 Nielsen

Kelsi "Play Maker" Nielsen (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. It is, however, the second DCOM on DVD to be certified Platinum in DVD sales. The first is The Cheetah Girls.

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"

Charting

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

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.

• On July 23, 2006, High School Musical received a TCA (Television Critics Association) award for Outstanding Achievement In Children's Programming.

Fandom

• High School Musical has attracted many younger fans to fanfiction.net. As a result, the High School Musical section on FFN has a large amount of stories.
• Calling itself the Wildcat Home Page, this is another High School Musical fansite

Errors

• During the sequence when Troy and Gabriella sings, "Start of Something New", they read the lyrics of the song from a screen as if they had never sung the song before, but further into the song they manage to sing without reading the lyrics.
• During the sequence when Troy is heading to the first audition, his shoes switch between black shoes with white accents and white shoes with black 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.
• 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.
• When Troy and Gabriella are singing "What I've Been Looking For" they are not looking at the lyrics.
• 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 Ms. 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 switches between wearing a jacket and wearing no jacket several times.
• At the callbacks, when Troy and Gabriella are singing, Troy is supposed to sing first but when Gabriella gets stage fright he doesn't start singing.
• At the start of when Troy and Gabriella are singing, the background does not come down.

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.

Criticisms

Although High School Musical was welcomed by many, A few have spawned on forums saying that High School Musical is "Old Fashioned", "Cliched", and more. They also feel that High School Musical was popular just for the songs.

External links

• Official website

• Musical films
• Teen films
• Disney Channel original movies
• Films with bonus scenes after the credits
• High School Musical
• 2006 musicals
• American musicals
• Children's films