I just helped direct a production of HSM and keep in mind a ton of these moments are just. in the script. HSM: on stage’s script is really really something. Least favorite line: “written by red hot composer babe kelsi nielson” The stage directions are also all written using figures of speech which isn’t really something very normal, stage directions should not be show not tell If any of you have any questions about if a moment is *supposed* to be like *that* just ask lol
I think the one that stole the solo was Kelsie (girl on stage left with a red shirt and black hat) at 8:41. You can slightly see her chin moving and the girl next to her quickly looks at her just as the singing begins. You can also see how she stops moving, possibly because singing as loud as she did would require her to be more tensed than she was before? It's not concrete, but she is certainly a suspect
8:59 The actor playing the Gym Teacher (who I assume is the school's actual gym teacher, the school's principal/vice principal/counsellor who insisted being in the production or a student who was held back like 20-30 times) is the best part about this number
I died when they made the dads who lifted Ryan stay on the stage and do the rest of the “all in this together” dance 😂 😂 just these middle aged men dancing to high school musical 😂😂
shout out to the two adult men I only noticed in We're All in This Together, who I'm pretty sure we're only there for the purposes of lifting that child
In the defense of the auditions song (2:59), it's supposed to sound terrible for comedic effect (I should know this as a current Cathy, aka the one who sang it like a really fast golden-age number). Luckily for this cast tho, they didn't even need to create a fake terrible voice. It was already there!
White as in "the show was double cast but we don't want to call it cast A and cast B so let's pick random colors instead" (maybe since EHS's colors are red and white, the other cast might be the red cast?)
4:39 I’m wondering why is she making that face lmaooo, either it’s because of the bad singing or she’s trying to remember her lines, cause that’s the face I make when I try to jog my memories.
LMAO im doing this musical in my school and the show dates in one week im so glad weve been practicing for the last 5 months and actually have good choreo 😭
My school recently did a production of High school musical and I played Taylor and I just have to say watching this video was a very “interesting” experience…
