If you grew up within the 90s/2000s, there’s a really small probability you’ve heard of High School Musical. Over the years of watching Disney Channel, what number of occasions did you activate the TV and listen to “We’re all in this together!” or the well-known music, “Gotta Go My Own Way.” Dubbed a multi-billion-dollar success (per Variety), with a legacy that continues on over 16 years after its preliminary, humble launch on Disney Channel, the High School Musical franchise gained large. The franchise consists of High School Musical, High School Musical 2, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, and Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure.
The sequence is so well-liked that, again in 2019, they launched a TV present spinoff, titled High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, with Season 4 across the nook. Originally, the film adopted Troy Bolton (Zac Efron), a basketball group captain auditioning for a faculty musical lead function with Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens), the extraordinarily clever, however shy, switch scholar. This causes a rift within the faculty’s social hierarchy, creating battle, an upset within the stability of energy, love tales, and new friendships. With all of the success High School Musical has introduced our fundamental characters, we surprise years later: the place is the forged at this time? Are they nonetheless “all in this together?”
Zac Efron
Zac Efron performed the notorious Troy Bolton in High School Musical. Troy was the varsity’s basketball captain, secret lover of music and theatrics, and the love curiosity of Gabriella Montez. After his main function within the movie, Efron went on to play quite a few characters throughout quite a lot of genres. In the years since High School Musical, he has performed roles in Baywatch (2017), The Greatest Showman, Neighbors, 17 Again, The Lucky One, and Charlie St. Cloud. He not too long ago completed a brand new movie, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, which options the true story of a person who ventured from New York to Vietnam to convey beer to his associates serving within the battle.
Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Hudgens performed the candy Gabriella Montez in High School Musical. She was a shy however type switch scholar, who auditioned for the musical with and have become the love curiosity of Troy Bolton. Since HSM, Hudgens has discovered wild success throughout voice performing and conventional performing. You can discover her in quite a lot of movies, resembling The Princess Switch, The Knight Before Christmas, Beastly, Sucker Punch, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, and Spring Breakers. Her most up-to-date enterprise contains enjoying a number one function in Downtown Owl, a ebook to movie adaptation a few sleepy city in rural North Dakota.
Ashley Tisdale
In High School Musical, Ashley Tisdale performed Sharpay Evans, the snobby wealthy lady in want of a actuality verify. Today, she lives a really totally different life than her HSM character, mentioning she would by no means play Sharpay Evans once more (by way of BuzzFeed). “I simply really feel like I would not be capable to actually do this once more and provides it justice,” she states. Since High School Musical, Tisdale has produced movies, resembling Cloud 9, Daphne & Velma and Picture This. She additionally produced soundtracks, resembling “Trophy Boy” from Charming and “Be Good To Me” from Bring It On: In It To Win It. Of course, she nonetheless has a powerful performing profession as effectively. You can discover Tisdale in Picture This, Aliens within the Attic, Before We Made It, Scary Movie V, and Amateur Night.
Corbin Bleu
Corbin Bleu was forged because the lovable Chad Danforth in all three High School Musical motion pictures, even returning to play a task in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series in season 3. Since his departure from the franchise, he is performed varied roles in different motion pictures, like Love, for Real, To Write Love on Her Arms and The Monkey’s Paw.
Lucas Grabeel
In HSM, Lucas Grabeel performed Ryan Evans, the snobby brother of Sharpay Evans and accomplice in all her schemes. In the years since High School Musical, Grabeel has dabbled in manufacturing. He served as the manager producer in Regarding: Beauregard, affiliate producer of Dancing Ninja and co-producer of Little Women. As far as his performing profession goes, he is doing fairly effectively. You can discover him enjoying roles in Little Women, Dancing Ninja, Virginia, I Kissed A Vampire, Lock and Roll Forever, Alice Upside Down, and College Road Trip.
Monique Coleman
Monique Coleman performed the function of Taylor McKessie in High School Musical, the clever and type good friend to Gabriella Montez and Captain of the Scholastic Decathlon Team. Since the tip of HSM, she will be present in loads of motion pictures, resembling Give Me an A, A Christmas Dance Reunion, Phobias, Witness Infection, Broken Star, and We Are Family. In 2018, she additionally wrote and produced Gimme Mo, a TV sequence made to reveal the issues younger individuals face and supply insights into supporting them.
KayCee Stroh
Settling into the quietet life on the listing, now we have KayCee Stroh, who performed Martha Cox, a cheerleader and worker of Lava Springs nation membership in High School Musical. Since HSM, Stroh has starred in a number of TV exhibits, resembling Shapetown, USA, the place she was an affiliate producer, The Suite Life Of Zack and Cody, and Andie Mack. Despite these few TV exhibits, she hasn’t taken on any roles in movies.