Discover some interesting facts about the behind-the-scenes of the High School Musical franchise
On October 24, 2008, “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” arrived in theaters. The film is the last in the original High School Musical franchise and was a farewell to the original cast, which included Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman.
And to celebrate the film’s 15th anniversary, RECREIO brought some interesting facts about the behind-the-scenes of the High School Musical films, which were revealed by Corbin, Lucas It is Monique in a conversation with BuzzFeed News. Check out!
1. Role Swap
Have you ever imagined another actor bringing Troy Bolton to life? Or the Vanessa Hudgens not being Gabriella? Well, that almost happened! This is because many of the actors auditioned for other roles and not the characters we saw them play on the big screen.
One of them was the Corbin Bleu, who had initially auditioned to play Ryan Evans. The actor revealed that at the time, he didn’t even know about the role of Chad Danforth, which would be his character.
And it wasn’t just him who tried out for one role and got another: Ashley It is Monique auditioned to be Gabriella and Lucas tried to win the role of Troy Bolton.
2. Auditions
In addition to proving to be good at acting, actors who wanted to be part of the cast of High School Musical had to go through song and dance auditions. And if the character was on the East High basketball team, the performers would have to audition for basketball, according to Blue.
The actor responsible for bringing Chad to life revealed what his experience was like at the basketball tryout. He said:
I walked in with a basketball, in a basketball shirt and basketball shorts – I looked like a player. And I don’t know how, but by the grace of God, for some reason, that day was just a fluke and I happened to be OK enough to pretend that I could actually play. I’m just not talented at all when it comes to playing basketball.”
The star also commented that after he was cast in the production, he started carrying a basketball 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and even slept with it, to feel more comfortable. He also said that to this day, when he watches the performance of “Get’cha Head in the Game” in the first film, he thinks about how he and the other actors did that.
Remember the number from “Get’cha Head in the Game”:
3. Vocal warm-up
One of the most iconic and most memorable moments in the entire franchise is Sharpay and Ryan’s vocal warm-up scene. What many people don’t know is that whoever brought these voice preparations into the film was Lucas GrabeelRyan’s interpreter.
Grabeel revealed that he talked to his theater friends and asked them what were the cheesiest theater or actor warm-ups they knew. He took everything he was told and showed it on the recording sets and some of it ended up being in the script. The actor also said that the director of the franchise, Kenny Ortega, invented the famous “mah mah”. Remember this moment!
4. Yawn Pot
Ortega established a rule on the recording sets: if someone was caught yawning, they would have to put money in a pot, which was affectionately nicknamed the Yawning Pot. According to Coleman, at the end of filming, the director donated the entire amount in the container to the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Utah, USA.
Every year, for about five years, at Christmas, he [Kenny Ortega] donated to a charity in our name”, highlighted Taylor’s interpreter.
5. Royal School
Many fans already know that the High School Musical films were recorded in a real school located in Salt Lake City, USA. The suspicions were that the recordings had been made during the summer, since all the students at the school would be on vacation and the space would be empty.
However, the first feature film was recorded while classes were taking place at the school, which became a big problem for the production team, who were only able to use certain spaces and rooms while there was no activity taking place there. Because of this issue, of trying to fit the recordings and the students’ routine, Coleman revealed that there was a lot of pressure to record the final number, “We’re All in This Together”, since they ran out of time to use the court:
Once the confetti exploded, you could only do it once because there was no time to clean it up. So the biggest number in the movie, and the biggest moment, could only be captured once… There was no room for anyone to mess up.”
Remember the number from “We’re All in This Together”:
Source: Recreio
