High School Musical

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High School Musical is a 2006 American musical television film and the first installment of the High School Musical trilogy directed by Kenny Ortega. It was filmed in 2005 in Salt Lake City. After its release on January 20, 2006, the film became the most successful film ever produced by Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM), with a television sequel, High School Musical 2, released in 2007 and feature film, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, was released theatrically in October 2008. This is the first DCOM to have a theater sequel. The movie soundtrack is the best-selling album in the United States, reaching number 1 on the American charts for 2006.

High School Musical was the most-watched Disney Channel of the year with 7.7 million viewers in its first broadcast in the United States, until August's premiere The Cheetah Girls 2 , which reached 8.1 million viewers. In the United Kingdom, he received 789,000 viewers for the premiere (and 1.2 million viewers overall during the first week), making it the second most-watched program for the Disney Channel (UK) of 2006. On December 29, 2006, it became the first DCOM which was broadcast on the BBC. Globally, High School Musical has been viewed by more than 225 million viewers.

With a plot depicted by the author and many critics as a modern adaptation of Romeo & amp; Juliet , High School Music is a story about two junior high school from a rival gang - Troy Bolton (Zac Efron), basketball team captain, and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens), a shy student who good at math and science. Together, they try for the main part in their middle school musicals, and this causes a split among all the school students. Despite the efforts of other students to thwart their dreams, Troy and Gabriella reject the pressure and rivalry of their peers, inspiring others along the way not to "stick to the status quo". The high school division, Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale) and her twin brother, Ryan (Lucas Grabeel), will do nothing not only to sabotage the friendship and romance between Troy and Gabriella but also to gain clues in school musicals.

High School Musical was filmed at East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, Murray High School auditorium, and Downtown Salt Lake City. Murray High School is also a set of several other Disney productions: Take Down (1979), Read This and Cry (2006), Minutemen (2008 ), and High School Musical: Get in Picture (2008). In January 2016, cast of Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, and Monique Coleman reunited in a Los Angeles high school building (decorated to resemble a gym building used in films) to celebrate the film's tenth anniversary. Zac Efron was not able to attend but sent a short video of him that gave recognition to the cast, crew, and fans of the film.

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Plot

On New Year's Eve, junior high school Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) meet at a party while the two teenagers are at the ski lodge during the winter break. At the party, both are called to sing karaoke together ("Start of Something New"). They find that they have connections and decide to exchange numbers before parting.

On the first day back to school after Christmas break, Troy sees Gabriella in her classroom and explains that she just moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and moved to East High School during the break. Troy then shows Gabriella around the school. President of the Drama Club, Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale) arrives and assumes that Gabriella is interested in auditioning. Wanting to eliminate the competition, Sharpay investigates a new girl and has a scholastic decathlon captain and Chem Club president, Taylor McKessie (Monique Coleman), finds out about Gabriella's past academic achievements, which earned her and Gabriella a good friend.

During basketball practice, Troy has trouble focusing because his mind is in Gabriella and the idea that he might enjoy singing other than basketball ("Get'cha Head in the Game"). Gabriella and Troy go to a music audition where Sharpay and her twin brother Ryan Evans (Lucas Grabeel) perform ("What I've Been Looking For"), but Troy and Gabriella are both too shy to audition. When Gabriella finally gained the confidence to move forward after an unofficial "over" audition, Troy offered to sing with him, but drama teacher Ms Darbus (Alyson Reed) told them that they were late and left. Kelsi Nielsen (Olesya Rulin), the music composer, travels and drops his music to the whole stage. Troy and Gabriella hastily helped him, and they sang together as Kelsi played the piano ("What I've Been Looking For (Reprise)"). Ms. Darbus overhears them and gives them a callback audition.

When the callback list is posted, Sharpay discovers that he has competition to lead in the musical, and the rest of the Wildcats are surprised that Troy has auditioned. Other students recognize their own secret passion and talent ("Stay at Status Quo"), worrying about Taylor and Troy's friend, Chad Danforth (Corbin Bleu). Because Gabriella has agreed to join a scholastic decathlon team, both Taylor and Chad want their teammates to focus on their upcoming competition rather than musical. In the locker room, Troy is tricked by his teammates to say that Gabriella did not matter as he watched through a videoconference that the scholastic decathlon team had set up via a hidden webcam in conspiracy with the basketball players. Gabriella became very disappointed with her betrayal ("When There Was Me and You") and decided not to audition for the musical.

Troy is left wondering why Gabriella does not want to audition anymore and can not concentrate on the game. Gabriella also looks low spirited. Realizing their mistake, Chad and the basketball team told Troy what was happening and offered to support him in a callback. Troy goes to Gabriella's house and they make peace.

After hearing Gabriella and Troy practice, Sharpay has Ms Darbus changing the callback time to coincide with both basketball championship and scholastic decatlon to annoy Gabriella and Troy's participation. Kelsi did not hear the conversation and the basketball team and decathlon team worked together to make plans. On the day of the competition, Taylor and Gabriella use school computers to delay championship and decathlon matches, disrupting the power in the gym and causing chemical reactions that force evacuation. Troy and Gabriella rush to the auditorium while Sharpay and Ryan finish their callback song ("Bop to the Top"), confident that their plan works. After Gabriella and Troy audition ("Breaking Free"), Ms Darbus gave two main roles, making Sharpay and Ryan a substitute.

Both teams won their respective competitions and the whole school gathered in the gym to celebrate ("We All In This Together"). Chad asks Taylor to come out, and Sharpay makes peace with Gabriella.

Soundtrack was released on January 10, 2006, and debuted at number 133 on Billboards 200, selling 7,469 copies in its first week. In the third week of the album, for the February 11, 2006 chart, it climbed to number ten, and has since climbed to number one on Billboard 200 twice (on March 1 and 22) and has sent 3.8 million copies on December 5, 2006 Of the copies, more than 3 million copies were sold in August 2006; it was certified platinum fourfold by the RIAA.

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Reception

In its premiere, the film was a success with 7.7 million viewers. However, the reviews vary. At Rotten Tomatoes, the rankings are 56%, while Common Sense Media ranks 4/5 stars.

Critical response

Kevin Carr gave the film a 3/5 score by saying, "The filmmakers are just trying to tell a story.Sex, drugs, and violence are not a factor in the equation." On the other hand, David Nusair gave a negative review to the movie with a score of 1.5/4 saying, "... it's hard to imagine even the loudest musical fans find anything here worthy of embracing." Scott Weinberg also gave a negative review on the film by saying, "A small piece of clear fur that is directed in a truly horrendous fashion and inhabited by cardboard characters who cast out simple voices and breathing pop songs."

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Home media

DVD was released on May 23, 2006, under the title, High School Musical: Encore Edition . It created a sales record when 1.2 million copies were sold in the first six days, making it the fastest-selling television movie of all time. However, this is the second DCOM (Disney Channel Original Movie) on DVD to get Platinum certification in DVD sales, the first being The Cheetah Girls . The High School Musical DVD was also released in Australia on July 12, 2006, via Walt Disney and released in European Region 2 on December 4, 2006, where it then reached number one in the UK. DVD Graph. It was also featured on the Disney Channel of South Africa, the latest Disney channel at that time in the southern hemisphere. It was the best-selling DVD in Australia in August 2006. In addition, DVD Region 3 was released on October 10 in Hong Kong. It was also released in Taiwan on December 15, 2006. This is the first DCOM DVD Region 3 ever released. It was released in Mexico on November 10 and in Brazil on December 6 to coincide with Christmas and Rede Globo's broadcast of the film. The album was released in New Zealand on July 12, 2006, and was awarded the most popular pre-teen movie in New Zealand for 2006

High School Musical was the first long video content of the iTunes Store in mid-March 2006. At that time it was available as a 320x240 487MB download for $ 9.99 after initially incorrectly registered for $ 1.99.

Remix Edition, 2-disc Special Edition, was released on December 5, 2006. DVD Remix was released in France on June 20, 2007. and in Germany on September 13, 2007. DVD Remix was released in the UK on September 10, 2007.

Despite being filmed in aspect ratio of 1.85: 1, the original version and Remix Edition DVD display version 1.33: 1 "full screen" (though not pan and scan because the camera stays right in the center of the image), the movie format as shown in Disney Channel. Widescreen, high definition version is available exclusively on Blu-ray Disney in North America and has been featured in the UK & amp; Ireland on BBC One and BBC HD, and RTÃƒÆ' Ã¢ â‚¬ Â° One. The HD version is also available in the PlayStation StoreVideo and Sony Entertainment online sections for the US market.

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Other media

Sequel

High School Musical 2 (2007) High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)

High School Musical 3: Senior Year is the third installment in the Disney franchise High School Musical . It was released to theaters across the United States on October 24, 2008. Kenny Ortega returns as director and choreographer, as did six main actors.

Extraordinary Adventures of Sharpay (2011)

Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure is a direct-to-DVD and spin-off movie starring Ashley Tisdale. The film features Sharpay Evans trying to get a role in a Broadway show after graduating. The film was released as a combination package of Blu-ray and DVD on April 19, 2011.

Lips Poor Version

On July 11, 2016, Disney XD released a half-hour overdub version of High School Musical into its YouTube channel in collaboration with Bad Lip Reading, a popular YouTube channel known for making parody pieces of various clips from movies , TV shows, songs, sports, and political news that fits perfectly with target lip movements. The story in this version is essentially similar to the original with a new dialogue, the main character now being "Chorky" and "Lumpkinella", the latter secretly becoming a robot escaping from a secure government facility.

Foreign adaptation

Argentina

High School Musical: El desafio (Argentina) is a spin-off for the Argentine market, based on the book "Battle of the Bands". The film arrived in Argentina's theaters on July 17, 2008.

Brazil

High School Musical: O Desafio is a spin-off of the American High School Musical film. The Brazilian spinoff is based on the book Battle of the Bands. The film was released in Brazil theaters on February 5, 2010.

China

Disney High School Musical China ( ???? ), also called High School Musical China: College Dreams is the Chinese version of the American series, released in North America on DVD under the Disney World Cinema Brand. Asian Business Film Critics Derek Elley considers the three-point adaptation of ten and calls choreography by former Madonna dancer Ruthy Inchaustegui and the song "bland". However, Elley chose three songs as "half-memorable": "Ballad 'The Rainy Season' ( ??? ) [sung by] two leads [ing characters,] the glitzy 'Perfection' ( ?? ) [by] rich rich universities [,] and climatic 'I Can Fly' ( ????? ), which did not quite succeed to be an anthemnal [ sic ], a spirited ballad. "

On stage show

Concert tour

The "High School Musical: The Concert" tour began on November 29, 2006, starting in San Diego, California. The tour continued until January 28, 2007, performing in major cities throughout the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The concert featured all the original cast members except Zac Efron, who was shooting Hairspray . Efron was replaced by Drew Seeley (whose voice was mixed with Efron during the film). The concert featured original songs from the film, as well as songs from Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, and Corbin Bleu.

Musical stage

On August 1, 2006, Playbill announced that Stagedoor Manor summer theater camp, featured in the film Camp , would be the first place to produce High School Musical on stage.

The North Shore Music Theater in Beverly, MA has a production stage of High School Musical that runs until the end of July 2007, featuring Broadway actors Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Kate Rockwell, a semifinalist at Grease: You're Me Want! , as Sharpay. The Pacific Repertory Theater Theater School of Dramatic Arts held a California premiere in 2007 (revived in 2008), and presented the premiere of West Coast Musical School 2 in January 2009.

Star Theater in Atlanta, Georgia is the first professional company to wear High School Musical.

Ice Tour

"Feld Entertainment" produced a global tour entitled High School Musical: The Ice Tour which held its world premiere in New York City on September 29, 2007. The cast includes bronze medalists Junior World 2004 2004 Jordan Brauninger and 2004 -2005 Australian national champion Bradley Santer. The event contains elements and songs from the original movie and its sequel, High School Musical 2 and displays a special preview of High School Musical 3: Senior Year when the same name movie is shown in theaters.

Book series

In June 2006, Disney Press published High School Musical: The Junior Novel, a successful film novelization. The novel reached number one on the New York Times best-selling list and remained on the list for sixteen weeks. In August 2007, the novel has sold over 4.5 million copies, with 1 million copies of the follow-up novel, High School Musical 2: The Junior Novel, sent to American retailers. High School Musical 3: Senior Year: The Junior Novel came out on September 23, 2008. Shortly after the success of the original novel, Disney announced that the book series, titled Stories from East High , will be published in February 2007 with a new book published every 60 days until July 2008.

Video game

Disney Interactive Studios has produced six games based on the High School Musical series, all of which take the video music game that incorporates songs and plots from the movies.

The reality series

During July and August 2008, ABC broadcast a reality competition based on the Nick Lachey High School Musical: Get in the Picture series. Event winners appear in a music video during the credits of High School Musical 3 . The series aired to a bad rank, with the show coming in fourth place in its timeslot. In the UK, a reality show entitled Hairspray: The School Musical was aired in 2008 on Sky1. It sees vocal coach teams, acting trainers and choreographers holding auditions at regular regular schools where a mix of students can audition for the West End production of the hit Broadway hit, Hairspray . Although the music featured is not High School Musical , this movie is the inspiration behind the show. The show was presented by Denise Van Outen and credited, along with High School Musical , to inspire generations of children in the UK to get into theater work.