High School Musical (2006) on Netflix
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Troy Bolton captains the East High basketball team. Gabriella Montez, a transfer student, meets him singing karaoke at a ski lodge. Their audition for the school musical divides the cliques.
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Plot summary
On New Year's Eve at a ski lodge, a party pairs Troy Bolton, East High's basketball captain, with Gabriella Montez, a transfer student, for a karaoke duet. After the winter break, Gabriella is a new student at East High, where Troy shows her around and the two become friends. They decide to audition for the school musical, and an impromptu performance of a song from the show earns them a callback and puts them in competition with Sharpay Evans, the drama club president, and her twin brother Ryan. Troy's friend Chad Danforth and decathlon captain Taylor McKessie worry that the musical will pull Troy and Gabriella away from the basketball championship and the academic contest.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about High School Musical (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The role of Troy was written for a tenor and Efron, who is a baritone, could not properly sing most of the parts, so Drew Seeley provided the majority of the character's singing voice, with Efron singing the first and last few lines of "Start of Something New" and the beginning of "Breaking Free".
- The premise came from a memory of Barsocchini's: a high school basketball teammate, Lynn Swann, confessed his aspirations of being a ballet dancer, which inspired the idea of a basketball player with ambitions of becoming a musical theater performer.
- The premiere broadcast drew 7.7 million viewers in the U.S., breaking the then-record for the network's highest premiere, and as of 2019 over 225 million unique viewers worldwide had watched the film.
- The film created a sales record when 1.2 million DVD copies were sold in its first six days, making it the fastest-selling television film of all time.
- The film was made on a budget of US$4.2 million, and its success allowed Disney Channel to increase the budgets on its future television films.
