High School Musical Page #4

Synopsis: Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez are two totally different teenagers who meet at a party while singing karaoke on New Year's Eve. One week later Troy goes back to his high school, East High, in New Mexico to find that Gabriella is a new student there. They quickly become close friends and accidentally audition for the school musical. After getting a callback, drama queen Sharpay Evans and her sidekick brother Ryan are furious. Then Chad, Troy's best friend and basketball teammate, and Taylor, Gabriella's new friend on the decathlon team, must find out a way to make Gabriella hate Troy.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Director(s): Kenny Ortega
Production: Walt Disney Pictures
  Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 8 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
56%
TV-G
Year:
2006
98 min
23,994 Views


- She has an amazing voice,

- Perhaps the next musicale,

So, you're a composer?

You wrote the song

Ryan and Sharpay just sang?

And the entire show?

Well, that's really cool,

l can't wait to hear the rest of the show,

So, why are you so afraid of

Ryan and Sharpay?

- l mean, it is your show,

- lt is?

lsn't the composer of a show kind of

like the playmaker in basketball?

Playmaker?

The one who makes everyone else

look good,

Without you there is no show,

You're the playmaker here, Kelsi,

l am?

Do you wanna hear how the duet's

supposed to sound?

b"What I've Been Looking For"

REPRISE/b

lt's hard to believe that l couldn't see

You were always there beside me

Thought l was alone with no one to hold

But you were always right beside me

This feeling's like no other

l want you to know

That l've never had someone

that knows me like you do

The way you do

And l've never had someone

as good for me as you

No one like you

So lonely before l finally found

What l've been looking for

Ooh-ooh-ooh

Wow, That's nice,

Bolton, Montez - you have a callback,

Kelsi, give them the duet

from the second act,

- Work on it with them,

- All right,

lf you guys wanna rehearse, l'm usually

here during free period and after school,

and even sometimes during biology class,

You can come and rehearse anytime,

Or come to my house for breakfast,

l have a piano, we can rehearse there,

After school, before school - whatever

works, After basketball class...

What?

Callback?! Aah!

''Callback for roles Arnold and Minnie

next Thursday, 3:30pm,

Ryan and Sharpay Evans,

Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton,''

ls this some kind of joke?

They didn't even audition!

- Maybe we're being punked?

- What?

Maybe we're being filmed right now,

Maybe we'll get to meet Ashton!

Oh, shut up, Ryan!

What's wrong?

What?

How dare she sign up! l picked out

the colors for my dressing room,

She hasn't even asked our permission

to join the drama club,

- Someone's gotta tell her the rules,

- Exactly,

- And what are the rules?

- Ohh!

b"Stick to the Status Quo"/b

You can bet there's nothin' but net

when l am in a zone and on a roll

But l got a confession,

my own secret obsession

And it's making me lose control

Everybody gather 'round

lf Troy can tell his

secret, then l can tell mine,

- l bake,

- What?

l love to bake! Strudels, scones,

even apple pandowdy,

Not another sound

Someday l hope to make

the perfect crme brle,

No, no, no, no!

No, no, no

Stick to the stuff you know

lf you wanna be cool

follow one simple rule

Don't mess with the flow

no, no

Stick to the status quo

Look at me and what do you see?

lntelligence beyond compare

But inside l am stirring,

something strange is occurring

lt's a secret l need to share

Open up, dig way down deep

Hip-hop is my passion,

l love to pop and lock and jam and break!

ls that even legal?

Not another peep!

lt's just dancing,

l think it's cooler than homework,

No, no, no, no!

No, no, no

Stick to the stuff you know

lt is better by far

to keep things as they are

Don't mess with the flow,

no, no

Stick to the status quo

Listen well, l'm ready to tell

about a need that l cannot deny

Dude, there's no explanation

for this awesome sensation

But l'm ready to let it fly

Speak your mind and you'll be heard

lf Troy wants to be a singer,

then l'm coming clean,

- l play the cello!

- Awesome! What is it?

- A saw!

- No, dude, it's like, a giant violin!

Not another word

- Do you have to wear a costume?

- Coat and tie,

No, no, no, no!

No, no, no

Stick to the stuff you know

lf you wanna be cool,

follow one simple rule

Don't mess with the flow,

no, no

Stick to the status quo

No, no, no

Stick to the stuff you know

lt is better by far

to keep things as they are

Don't mess with the flow,

no, no

Stick to the status quo

This is not what l want

This is not what l planned

And l just gotta say

l do not understand

Something is really

- Something's not right

- Really wrong

And we've gotta get things back

where they belong

- We can do it

- Gotta play

- Stick with what you know

- We can do it

- Hip-hop hooray

- She has got to go

- We can do it

- Crme Brle

Keep your voice down low

- Not another peep

- No

- Not another word

- No

- Not another sound

- No

Everybody quiet!

Why is everybody staring at you?

- Not me, you,

- Because of the callbacks?

l can't have people staring at me,

l can't,

No! No, no, no

Stick to the stuff you know

lf you want to be cool,

follow one simple rule

Don't mess with the flow,

no, no

Stick to the status quo

No, no, no

Stick to the stuff you know

lt is better by far

to keep things as they are

Don't mess with the flow,

no, no

Stick to the status

stick to the status

Stick to the status quo

Aah!

l am so sorry,

You do not want to get into that, man,

- Too much drama,

- Yeah,

What is going on here?

Look at this! That Gabriella girl

just dumped her lunch on me!

On purpose! lt's all part of their plan to

ruin our musical,

And Troy and his basketball robots

are obviously behind it,

Why do you think he auditioned?

After all the hard work you've

put into this show,

lt just doesn't seem right,

- What's up?

- What's up? Oh, let's see...

You missed free-period workout

to audition for a heinous musical,

And now suddenly people are confessing,

Yeah, and Zeke,

Zeke is baking... crme brle,

What's that?

Oh, a creamy custard

with a caramelized surface,

- lt's really satisfying,

- Shut up, Zeke!

Look... do you see

what's happening here, man?

Our team is coming apart

because of your singing thing,

Even the drama geeks and

the brainiacs suddenly think that they can...

...talk to us,

- Look, the skater dudes are mingling,

- Yo!

Suddenly people think that they

can do other stuff,

Stuff that's not their stuff,

You're thinking about show tunes,

when we've got a playoff game next week,

Whoa!

Whoa!

- Ooh!

- Head's up!

- All right, Cards on the table right now,

- Huh?

You're tweaked because l put your stars

in detention and now you're getting even,

What are you talking about, Darbus?

Your all-star son

turned up at my audition,

Now, l give every student an even chance,

which is a long and honorable

tradition in the theater,

Something that you wouldn't understand,

But, if he is planning some sort of practical

joke in my chapel of the arts...

- Troy doesn't even sing,

- Oh, well, you're wrong about that,

But l will not allow my Twinkle Town

musicale to be made into farce,

- Twinkle Town?

- See? l knew it!

- Hey...

- l knew it!

Sounds like a winner,

Good luck on Broadway!

ls Sharpay really, really mad at me?

l said l was sorry,

Look, no one has beaten out Sharpay for

a musical since kindergarten,

l wasn't trying to beat anyone out,

We didn't even audition,

we were just singing,

You won't convince Sharpay of that,

lf that girl could play both Romeo and

Juliet, her own brother would be aced out,

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Peter Barsocchini

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