"High School Musical"

[kkersey_austin]

Petra, I haven't seen "High School Musical" myself but last fall one
of our local high schools was among a handful selected to do a preview
production (sort of like a movie sneak preview, so the script and
music was still being finalized during that production). A couple of
kids in my son's first grade class saw it and loved it - really,
really loved it.

The stage version is based on a Disney TV movied that came out last
year. Apparently the Disney marketing machine wasn't satisfied with
the DVDs, books, video games, ice shows, etc. and decided to corner
the real-life high school musical market as well. They are expecting
2000 productions this year alone.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A416093

I just checked and wikipedia has huge articles on the movie and the
stage show versions. I'm sure that with all the hype I've seen (and I
don't even have a TV, much less the Disney channel) it shouldn't be
hard to find song or video clips so you can judge for yourself.

Elisabet