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Director: Kenny Ortega/ Original Air Date: January 20, 2006 / Running Time: 98 Minutes / Rating: TV-G

1.33:1 Fullscreen (Original Broadcast Ratio), Dolby Digital 5.1 (English)
Subtitles: English; Closed Captioned
DVD Release Date: May 23, 2006
Single-sided, dual-layered disc (DVD-9)
Suggested Retail Price: $26.99

  About The Movie                                                                                                                

Two high-schoolers, Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens), who are randomly selected from a New Year's Eve party crowd to participate in mandatory karaoke. It turns out that they're both pretty good, something they've both known but kept to themselves to escape the judgment of their peers. A week later, Gabriella transfers to Troy's school, where she's a too-smart-for-her-own-good newbie and he's the star of the basketball team, which his dad just happens to coach. They end up auditioning for the school musical, much to the dismay of Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) and Ryan Evans (Lucas Grabeel), a pair of shoe-ins whose cozy sibling dynamic is slightly disturbing. As they pursue their interests, the rest of the student body begins to feel more comfortable with their true selves as well, slowly unraveling the dividing lines that govern high school society. The cast is attractive in that teen hearthrob kind of way, an attribute always sure to pique a young audience's interest. Ashley Tisdale, Disney's newest diva-in-training, wears that crown well in her role as Sharpay Evans. As one of the four central characters on the hit Disney Channel series "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody," she brings relative star power to the project. It helps that to promote the film, Efron and Hudgens made guest appearances on "Suite Life." Grabeel, too, is familiar to his audience as Ethan Dalloway in the popular Halloweentown High.

Cast                                                                                                                                      

Zac Efron (Troy Bolton), Vanessa Anne Hudgens (Gabriella Montez), Ashley Tisdale (Sharpay Evans), Lucas Grabeel (Ryan Evans), Alyson Reed (Ms. Darbus), Corbin Bleu (Chad Danforth), Monique Coleman (Taylor McKessie), Olesya Rulin (Kelsi Nielsen), Chris Warren Jr. (Zeke), Bart Johnson (Coach Jack Bolton), Ryne Sanborn (Jason), Socorro Herrera (Mrs. Montez), Joey Miyashima (Principal Matsui), Leslie Pomeroy (Mrs. Bolton), Kaycee Stroh (Martha Cox)

Bonus Features