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HELD OVER!! ~ High School Musical 3Friday, Saturday & Sunday, November 21, 22, & 23
G (Running Time 109 min.) Tickets - $3
Disney’s High School Musical phenomenon leaps onto the big screen in High School Musical 3: Senior Year (rated G for all audiences; and with a running time of 109 min.), in which the world’s favorite high school students (ZAC EFRON, VANESSA HUDGENS, ASHLEY TISDALE, LUCAS GRABEEL, CORBIN BLEU and MONIQUE COLEMAN) hit senior year. Amidst a basketball championship, prom and a big spring musical featuring all of the Wildcats, Troy and Gabriella vow to make every moment last as their lifelong college dreams put the future
of their relationship in question. A crew of sophomore Wildcats (MATT PROKOP, JUSTIN MARTIN, JEMMA MCKENZIE-BROWN) joins in the fun as the film’s incredible new music and exciting dance numbers take maximum advantage of the big screen.
Other actors reprising their roles from the first two Disney Channel movies include OLESYA RULIN, CHRIS WARREN JR., RYNE SANBORN, KAYCEE STROH, BART JOHNSON and ALYSON REED.
Walt Disney Pictures presents “High School Musical 3: Senior Year,” directed and choreographed by Emmy Award®-winning Kenny Ortega. Ortega, who helmed the first two films for Disney Channel, also adds new duties as executive producer. “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” is produced by Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush; Don Schain serves as coproducer. Peter Barsocchini, veteran HSM writer, penned the screenplay. Behind-the-scenes talent includes director of photography Daniel Aranyó (Disney Channel’s “High School Musical 2,” “The Cheetah Girls 2”), production designer Mark Hofeling (“High School Musical,” “High School Musical 2,” “Minutemen”), editor Don Brochu (“The American Mall,” “The Fugitive”), and costume designer Caroline B. Marx (“The Killing Room,” TV’s “Gilmore Girls”). Director Ortega shares choreographer duties with Charles “Chucky” Klapow and Bonnie Story—the three earned an Outstanding Choreography Emmy® for “High School Musical.” Composer David Lawrence and music supervisor Steven Vincent also return. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes.
The phenomenon of “High School Musical” started out as an idea in producer Bill Borden’s living room. “I wanted to make a musical that I could sit down and watch with my kids. It was that simple,” says Borden.
Although the musical had seen somewhat of a revival with the success of adult fare such as “Moulin Rouge!” and “Chicago,” no one was making musicals for the teen audience. “Bill and I are true believers in this particular genre—the musical for teens,” says Borden’s producing partner Barry Rosenbush. “With the first movie, we weren’t trying to invent the wheel…we were trying to reintroduce the wheel.
“Movie history is filled with musical comedy for teens,” continues Rosenbush. “The movies back in the ‘30s and ‘40s, the movies that we grew to love—‘Westside Story,’ ‘The Sound of Music,’ and later ‘Grease’—were all for young people.”
Borden and Rosenbush were already working with writer Peter Barsocchini on another project when the idea for “High School Musical” gained momentum; they tapped him to write the screenplay.
“They said they were doing a Disney project that involved music and sports,” says Barsocchini. “The world of music and sports was familiar to me—I played basketball during my youth and I was a music critic in the late ‘60s in San Francisco.”
Multi-talented director/choreographer Kenny Ortega then joined the trio to bring this musical idea to the small screen. “Kenny has many unique talents which make him a really fantastic director,” says Borden. “He is a musician. He’s a great dancer. He’s a choreographer. He’s an actor. He really does mold the screenplay. He can take a concept and make it come alive in a musical like no other person in the world. Kenny really is an amazing force of nature.”
“All I’ve ever tried to do here with ‘High School Musical’was to enjoy telling a story from a musical point of view in a lighthearted and joyful way without having an overly complicated story and overly complicated characters,” says Ortega. “I just try to bring it to life with as much fun and joy and color and excitement as possible.”
The team fathered a creative phenomenon that would come to include cable television’s highestever-rated telecast, the two highestever-rated Disney Channel movies, two multi-platinum soundtracks, a concert tour, an ice show, numerous awards and accolades, and a source of inspiration to teens worldwide. “There’s something about teenage life that is the same all around the world,” says Borden.
--taken from the production notes of High School Musical 3, courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures
