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* Ellen Harvey as Ms. Darbus ([[Denise Nolin]] will play her in the summer)
* Ellen Harvey as Ms. Darbus ([[Denise Nolin]] will play her in the summer)


===Regional productions===
===Regional premieres===
On [[August 1]] [[2006]], [[Playbill]] announced that the [[Stagedoor Manor]] summer [[theater camp]], featured in the movie ''[[Camp (film)|Camp]]'', would be the first venue to produce ''High School Musical'' on-stage.
* On [[August 1]] [[2006]], [[Playbill]] announced that the [[Stagedoor Manor]] summer [[theater camp]], featured in the movie ''[[Camp (film)|Camp]]'', would be the first venue to produce ''High School Musical'' on-stage.{{fact}}


* Theater of the Stars in Atlanta, Georgia was the first professional company to put on High School Musical.{{fact}}
North Shore Music Theater in [[Beverly, MA]] had a stage production of ''High School Musical'' running until the end of [[July 2007]], featuring [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] actor [[Andrew Keenan-Bolger]] and Kate Rockwell, a semi-finalist on ''[[Grease: You're the One that I Want!]]'', as Sharpay. [[Pacific Repertory Theatre]]'s School of Dramatic Arts staged the California premiere in 2007 (which it revived in 2008), and will present the West Coast premiere of [[High School Musical 2: On Stage!]] in January 2009.<ref>pacrep.org/archive</ref>Theater of the Stars in Atlanta, Georgia was the first professional company to put on High School Musical.


* In January of 2007, [[Pacific Repertory Theatre]]'s School of Dramatic Arts staged the California premiere. PacRep's ''High School Musical'' was revived in January of 2008, and in January, 2009, the company presented the West Coast premiere of [[High School Musical 2: On Stage!]]. The 3 productions were directed by PacRep Founder Stephen Moorer, choreographed by Susan Cable, with Musical Direction by Don Dally<ref>pacrep.org/archive</ref>
''[[Legally Blonde - The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods]]'' champion [[Bailey Hanks]] began playing the role of Sharpay Evans in the [[Paper Mill Playhouse]] production of the shown on [[November 5]], [[2008]] and will continue until the end of the show's run on [[December 7]], [[2008]]. Hanks was able to participate in the show due to the closing of the [[Broadway musical]], ''[[Legally Blonde (musical)|Legally Blonde: The Musical]]'' which she previously starred in.<ref>http://www.playbill.com/news/article/122108.html</ref>


[[Neptune Theatre (Halifax)]] produced the professional Canadian premiere of "High School Musical - On Stage". With the first public performance on April 14th, 2009, the show starred some of Canada's most talented performers, including the 3 actors from the children's television series "[[The Doodlebops]]". The production was directed and choreographed by Canadian director/choreographer David Connolly.
* On April 14th, 2009, [Neptune Theatre (Halifax)]] produced the professional Canadian premiere of "High School Musical". The show included 3 actors from the children's television series "[[The Doodlebops]]". The production was directed and choreographed by Canadian director/choreographer David Connolly.{{fact}}


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 03:04, 24 March 2009

High School Musical On Stage!
MusicMatthew Gerrard
Robbie Nevil
Ray Cham
Greg Cham
Andrew Seeley
Randy Petersen
Kevin Quinn
Andy Dodd
Adam Watts
Bryan Louiselle
David N. Lawrence
Faye Greenberg
Jamie Houston
LyricsSame as music
BookDavid Simpatico
BasisDisney Channel Original Movie: High School Musical
Productions2007 US National Tour
2008 UK National Tour
2008 Spain National Tour
2008 Finland
2008-2009 Sweden
2009 The Netherlands

High School Musical on Stage! is a stage musical based on the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, with music and lyrics by Matthew Gerrard, Robbie Nevil, Ray and Greg Cham, Andrew Seeley, Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn, Andy Dodd, Adam Watts, Bryan Louiselle, David N. Lawrence, Faye Greenberg and Jamie Houston, and a book by David Simpatico. It has quickly become a very popular choice for high school musical theatre productions.[1]

Main Characters

List of main characters in their respective groups.

The Jocks

  • Troy Bolton - Coaches son, captain of the basketball team.
  • Chad Danforth - Basketball team member, friend of Troy's.
  • Zeke Baylor - Basketball team member. Passion for baking

The Thespians

  • Sharpay Evans - Lead in every school musical since kindergarten. President of the drama club.
  • Ryan Evans - Sharpay's brother. Performs with Sharpay in musicals. Vice president of the drama club.

The Brainiacs

  • Gabriella Montez - The "New Girl" to East High School, met Troy over winter break.
  • Taylor McKessie - Head of the Brainiacs. Very smart.
  • Martha Cox - Brainiac, who has a passion for hip-hop

The Skater Dudes

  • Ripper - Head of the skater dudes. Passion for the cello
  • Mongo - Skater dude. Rippers's "sidekick"

Other Students

  • Jack Scott - News announcer at East High. Also known as "The Velvet Fog of East High".
  • Kelsi Neilson - Plays the piano for the drama club. Composer for the musical.

The Adults

  • Ms. Darbus - Drama Teacher. Dislikes the Jocks and Coach Bolton
  • Coach Bolton - Gym Teacher and coach of the basketball team

Synopsis

Act I

High School Musical at Rhyl Pavilion Theatre.

At East High School (In Albuquerque, New Mexico) ("Wildcat Cheer"),

Troy Bolton tells his Jock friends, Chad Danforth and Zeke Baylor, about meeting Gabriella Montez on New Year's Eve during winter vacation on a ski trip. Gabriella, who has just moved to Albuquerque, tells Taylor McKessie, Kelsi Nielsen and Martha Cox (her new found Brainiac friends) of her vacation, as does Troy with his friends. We also meet Sharpay and Ryan Evans, the two drama stars of the school. Sharpay is selfish, and Ryan follows her orders but tries to be friends with everyone. Troy and Gabriella have a flashback to New Year's Eve when they met. ("Start of Something New").

One-half of the song is during the flashback, then we return to East High where Chad, Taylor, Kelsi, Ryan, Sharpay, Zeke and other students sing of their New Year's Resolutions.

In homeroom, Mrs. Darbus tells her class of the upcoming Winter Musical, "Juliet and Romeo", a new version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", written by Kelsi Nielsen, a shy East High student. When Ryan, Sharpay, Troy, and Gabriella start using their cell phones, Mrs. Darbus gives them all detention. Chad interferes, telling Mrs. Darbus Troy cannot go because they have basketball practice after school and that they have an upcoming championship game. Mrs. Darbus gives him detention for 30 minutes, as well as Taylor when she remarks that Chad can't even count that high. At Gabriella's locker, Troy runs into her and they show their amazement of how they found each other again. Sharpay walks by and tries to flirt with Troy, but he shows no interest in her. Sharpay observes that he is interested in Gabriella and she is interested in him. Later,the Jocks have basketball practice ("Get'cha Head in the Game").

Meanwhile in a Science class, Gabriella shows her smarts by pointing out a flaw in the teacher's equation. Taylor is impressed and asks, on behalf of her Science Club, if Gabriella could join their team to win the upcoming Scholastic Decathlon, although Gabriella refuses. Sharpay overhears and has Ryan investigate by Googling her.

Pacific Repertory Theatre's School of Dramatic Arts High School Musical Act 1 Finale.

She sees that Gabriella was a very intelligent Brainiac at her old school and puts the printouts in Taylor's locker, and later the students head to the Mrs. Darbus's room for detention, where they are all acting like animals. Taylor then asks Gabriella to join the Scholastic Decathlon team based on the printouts Sharpay planted in her locker and she agrees. Everyone does the ball of noise while Coach Bolton comes to get Troy and Chad for practice and then talks to Mrs. Darbus about it.

The next day, thespians audition for the play ("Auditions").

Sharpay and Ryan audition as well ("What I've Been Looking For").

After the auditions have been declared closed, Gabriella and Troy sing the song as Kelsi intended it - much slower ("What I've Been Looking For (Reprise)").

Although Troy and Gabriella did not intend it to be an audition they are called back for a second audition. When their friends hear the news they spread it via cell phones ("Cellular Fusion").

Meanwhile, Sharpay is furious as she believes that they've stolen the lead roles and broken the 'rules' of East High. Most of the school agrees, and lyrical chaos erupts during a lunch break with students telling their secret obsessions out side of their cliques ("Stick to the Status Quo"),

which culminates in Sharpay getting caked by Zeke, who secretly likes her after Gabriella spins into zeke splating cake everywhere!

The Act ends here with Sharpay shouting "Someone is going to pay for this!"

Act II

Jack Scott recaps events before Troy and Gabriella dance on the rooftop garden ("I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You").

Zeke comes to Sharpay's locker and tries to flirt with her. Meanwhile, the Jocks and Brainiacs plot against the infuriated duo during study hall. Sharpay and Ryan see the Jocks and the Brainiacs mingling together and imagine they are trying to help Troy and Gabriella. So Sharpay lies to Mrs. Darbus saying that Troy and his dad are trying to ruin the auditions because she gave Troy detention. Later at practice, ("Wildcat Cheer (Reprise)")

Mrs. Darbus talks to Troy's dad and then he talks to Troy. Gabriella comes to practice to see Troy while Martha comes and takes her to the lab. Troy's dad thinks Gabriella is the reason why Troy got detention.

The Jocks and Brainiacs put their plan to work, pushing at Troy and Gabriella to 'split up'. Eventually, Troy gives in and pretends that he doesn't like Gabriella, completely oblivious to the phone in Zeke's hand, transmitting Troy's words directly to Gabriella ("Counting on You").

Gabriella Hears and Becomes very upset

Troy and Gabriella, lonely and upset, sing ("When There Was Me and You").

The next day, Sharpay and Ryan were rehearsing for their callback while Sharpay talks to Ryan about her role in the school. Then Troy comes in looking for Gabriella and Ryan tells him that she is in the theatre. Troy went to the theatre and told Gabriella that they were set-up and he didn't mean what he said and sings to remind her of New Year's ("Love You and Love Me (Acoustic Version)")

Hearing that the callback date has been moved up by request of Sharpay to the same time as the big game and the Scholastic Decathlon, Troy and Gabriella announce to the Jocks and Brainiacs that they are going to not do the callback, but instead help their respective teams for their events. The Jocks and Brainiacs say they should do the callbacks. Troy and Gabriella refuse, but the teams decide to lend a helping hand anyway ("We're All In This Together (Acoustic Version)").

Act 2 Finale of Pacific Repertory Theatre's School of Dramatic Arts production of Disney's High School Musical.

On the day of the big game/Decathlon/callbacks, the students are excited for the festivities. Sharpay and Ryan perform their callback song ("Bop to the Top"),

which at the same time happens with the basketball championship and the science decathalon.

during which Taylor engineers an electronic meltdown in the decathlon and light malfunctions in the game, which forces all the students to move to the theater. Chad and Taylor explain to Troy and Gabriella that this is their only chance. Mrs. Darbus, hesitant to allow Troy and Gabriella an audition due to their lateness, has no choice but to let them audition as the auditorium fills with students ("Breaking Free").

Mrs. Darbus gives Troy and Gabriella the parts on the spot with everyone watching.

The end of Act II brings us to the gym where all the main characters wrap up their plots (Chad asks out Taylor, Zeke gets Sharpay to be nice to him, Jack Scott and Kelsi literally fall head over heels for each other, and Sharpay makes up with Gabriella and Troy.) the Wildcats win the big game and the Decathlon. The students celebrate ("We're All in This Together (Reprise)")

And there is a recap of all the major songs in the show ("Megamix").

Finally, everyone takes their bows. And the curtains close!

Songs

High School Musical 2 On Stage!

High School Musical 2, the sequel to the popular movie High School Musical, is also being spun off into a stage musical. Like the original, the show has been adapted into 2 different productions: A 1-act, 70-minute version and a 2-act full length production. This stage production includes the song "Hummuhummunukunukuapua'a" that was left out of the original movie but included in the DVD as a bonus feature. Music Theatre International, Disney Theatrical is licensing the theatrical rights.Musical Theatre International had originally recruited 7 schools to serve as tests for the new full-length adaptation, but due to complications with multiple drafts of both the script and the score, all but two schools were forced to drop out of the pilot program. The Woodlands High school was the first School to produce HSM 2 on May 18, 2008, and in July, 2008 James Hubert Blake High School was the second. Harrell Theatre in Collierville, Tennessee was chosen as the first community theatre to perform this production. The show ran from July 17-August 3, 2008. The production featured two casts, a senior cast and a junior cast. The West Coast premiere will be presented by Pacific Repertory Theatre's School of Dramatic Arts from January 15 - February 15, 2009 and will be directed by PacRep founder Stephen Moorer.[2] The UK Premiere will be performed by StageDaze Theatre Company in Cardiff from 6th - 18th April 2009. [3]

Songs

Productions

United States tour

Disney Theatrical staged a US tour that began on August 1, 2007 and ended on August 10, 2008.

Principal Cast

  • John Jeffery Martin as Troy Bolton
  • Arielle Jacobs as Gabriella Montez
  • Shakiem Evans as Chad Danforth
  • Shaullanda Lacombe as Taylor McKessie
  • Chandra Lee Schwartz as Sharpay Evans (after 2/17/08 - Helene York)
  • Bobby List as Ryan Evans
  • Michael Mahany as Jack Scott
  • Olivia Oguma as Kelsi Nielson
  • Ben Thompson as Zeke Baylor
  • Lizzie Weiss as Martha Cox
  • Ron Bohmer as Coach Bolton
  • Ellen Harvey as Ms. Darbus (Denise Nolin will play her in the summer)

Regional premieres

  • Theater of the Stars in Atlanta, Georgia was the first professional company to put on High School Musical.[citation needed]
  • In January of 2007, Pacific Repertory Theatre's School of Dramatic Arts staged the California premiere. PacRep's High School Musical was revived in January of 2008, and in January, 2009, the company presented the West Coast premiere of High School Musical 2: On Stage!. The 3 productions were directed by PacRep Founder Stephen Moorer, choreographed by Susan Cable, with Musical Direction by Don Dally[4]
  • On April 14th, 2009, [Neptune Theatre (Halifax)]] produced the professional Canadian premiere of "High School Musical". The show included 3 actors from the children's television series "The Doodlebops". The production was directed and choreographed by Canadian director/choreographer David Connolly.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ TIME magazine reported in its May 26, 2008 issue, p. 51, that this musical ranked as the fifth most frequently produced musical by U.S. high schools in 2007.
  2. ^ http://www.pacrep.org/Disneys%20High%20School%20Musical%202
  3. ^ http://www.hsm2onstage.co.uk
  4. ^ pacrep.org/archive
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