[HPFGU-OTChatter] "High School Musical"

[P. Alexis Nguyen]

Petra wrote:
> I belong to a community theatre troupe in San Francisco (where I live)
>  and I think the group is trying to get the rights to produce a show
>  known as "High School Musical."
<<SNIP>>
>  I ask because I'm trying to decide what my feelings are about getting
>  involved...and if I should sit this one out.  If I get involved, I would
>  have to live with the songs running 24/7 in my head for weeks on end!
>  Whether I like them or not.
>
>  Anyone here know if that would be a fate worse than death?

I'm not surprised you haven't heard of this.  It started as a Disney
made-for-TV production that really expanded to become this youth pop
culture hit.  Since I avidly watch the Disney Channel - I'm not
ashamed to admit that ^_^ - I have seen this, and the show is really,
really fun.  However, I'm quite surprised that a local theatre troupe
would try to produce it simply because the musical, or at least the
concert version of it, is currently on tour; moreover, because the
thing was written and produced only a year or so ago and there's a
sequel in production, the fact that anyone would attempt thing so
contemporary is something odd to me.  (I liken it to seeing a local
production of Cats while the show was still on Broadway.)

Anyway, get your hands on the DVD - there's a sing-along & dance-along
thing with the DVD, and that'll get you a feel of what it might be
like to be involved in a musical production of it.  I think you'll
really enjoy it, but then again, who am I to be arbiter to taste?  (I
hate Romeo & Juliet, and there are others that insists that the story
is the greatest star-crossed lovers story ever.)

~Ali