High School Musical on Stage!

Act One

The scene opens on the steps of East High as the school gathers to celebrate the first day back after winter break. The cheerleading squad perform and the cliques (jocks, thespians, brainiacs, and skater dudes) gather together (“Wildcat Cheer”). Troy Bolton, the basketball team’s leader, and Chad Danforth, his number two, celebrate the start of the season while twins Sharpay and Ryan Evans make a flamboyant entrance. Taylor McKessie enters with the rest of the brainiacs and mocks Sharpay’s diva tendencies. Taylor introduces herself to Gabriella Montez, the new girl at the school, and Gabriella tells her about a boy she met over the winter break. The scene freezes as the students become the Party Kids in a karaoke flashback. It is love at first sight as Troy and Gabriella are thrown together to sing karaoke (“Start of Something New”). Back at school, all the students agree that the new year will be a great one. As the school announcer, Jack Scott, relays the school news, the