High School Musical

High School Musical (2006)

Timing: 1:38 (98 min)

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All about film

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Photo 79

Actors and characters

Release date

2006-01-20

Country

United States

Production

Salty Pictures, First Street Films

Genre

Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance, TV Movie

Budget

$4 200 000

Revenue

$3 746

Website

http://tv.disney.go.com/disneychannel/originalmovies/highschoolmusical/index.html

Director

Kenny Ortega

Actors

Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Bart Johnson, Alyson Reed, Chris Warren, Olesya Rulin
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Don Schain, Bill Borden, Barry Rosenbush

Operator

Gordon Lonsdale

Composer

David Lawrence

Artist

Audition

Natalie Hart, Jason La Padura, Jeff Johnson

Editing

Seth Flaum, Shauna Miller Schain
All team (30)

• High School Musical-1 entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the first television film to have nine songs simultaneously appear on the Billboard Hot 100's list of the 100 most popular songs.
• The television film's soundtrack received an award from Billboard Music Award as the best soundtrack of 2006, achieving four times platinum status in Ireland, double platinum in Spain and the United Kingdom, platinum in Italy, and gold in France, Germany, and Portugal. Since its release on January 10, 2006, six individual songs from High School Musical-1 have become "Gold Singles". In the US, the film's music album not only became the #1 album of 2006 but also the #1 soundtrack and the #1 children’s album of the year.
• In Russia, the main characters of the film were voiced by singer Sergey Lazarev (Zac Efron) and participants of the television project "Star Factory" Ksenia Larina (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) and Mikhail Veselov (Lucas Grabeel), as well as Evgenia Otradnaya (Ashley Tisdale), a participant in the Russian qualifying round for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.
• Other translations of the film include "School Musical", "Higher Music School", and "Musical in High School".
• Initially, Ashley Tisdale auditioned for the role of Gabriella Montez.
• In the first installment, Zac Efron does not sing himself.
• Corbin Bleu auditioned for the role of Ryan.
• The premiere of the film on the American cable channel Disney Channel attracted an audience of 7.7 million viewers, becoming its largest in 2006.
• The title "High School Musical" was initially conceived as a placeholder to avoid filming without a title. But no matter how much the creators wracked their brains, they couldn't come up with anything suitable. They reluctantly had to approve it as the final one.
• The soundtrack of the television film received a Billboard Music Award as the best soundtrack of 2006, and went four times platinum in Ireland, twice platinum in Spain and the UK, platinum in Italy, and gold in France, Germany and Portugal. Since its release on January 10, 2006, six individual songs from High School Musical-1 have become "Gold Singles." In the US, the album from the television film not only became the #1 album of 2006, but also the #1 soundtrack and the #1 children's album of the year.
• In Russia, the main characters of the film were voiced by singer Sergey Lazarev (Zac Efron) and participants of the television project "Star Factory" Ksenia Larina (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) and Mikhail Veselov (Lucas Grabeel), as well as Evgeniya Otradnaya (Ashley Tisdale), a participant in the Russian qualifying round for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.
• Other translations of the film include "School Musical," "Higher School of Music," and "Musical in High School."
• The title "Classy Musical" was conceived as a working title to avoid filming without a title. But no matter how hard the creators tried, they couldn't come up with anything worthwhile. They reluctantly had to approve it as the final one.