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In HSM Kelsi is the nerdy girl that isn’t very popular.  She is a musical artist and is choreographing all the music for the Spring Musical.  In the first HSM Kelsi is pushed around by Sharpay in the beginning.  She is very shy and not very confident in her music.  Throughout the first HSM we see Kelsi gain some confidence with the help of Troy and Gabriella.  In the end, Kelsi grows a lot and becomes more outgoing.

In the second HSM Kelsi gets a job at Sharpay’s parent’s country club as a pianist.  She and Ryan Evens have a great time planning a number for the country club’s talent show for their peers.  However, when the staff is told that they are not allowed to participate in the talent show, Kelsi helps figure out a solution and in the end all the staff does a number and has a great time.

In Kelsi’s senior year she is nominated for a scholarship to the Julliard School of the Performing Arts.  She and Ryan again work together to choreograph the Senior Year Musical.  Kelsi and Ryan go to the prom together and help their friends have a very enjoyable senior year.  Kelsi is given the scholarship to Julliard and is very excited for the new opportunities and adventures that are in store for her.

 

In the High School Musicals, Jack Bolton is known as Troy’s dad and the basketball coach at East High.  He is very hard on Troy and knows what he is capable of and what Troy needs to do to accomplish his goals.  However, Coach Bolton is faced with a challenge when his son decides that he likes to sing.  Jack sees this new hobby as a distraction for Troy and Troy’s hopes to get a basketball college scholarship.

In the first HSM, Troy misses a basketball practice to audition for the Winter Musical.  This is when Jack first hears about Troy’s new hobby.  He notices that Troy seems distracted and not fully concentration on basketball.  Coach Bolton also thinks that Gabriella is a hindrance of Troy accomplishing all he should be able to accomplish in that basketball season.  Coach Bolton tries persuade Troy to not be in the musical.

However, during their championship game Troy and Gabriella cause a diversion so they are able to go to their call backs for the musical.  Coach Bolton comes in to see them singing together.  He sees  his son so passionate and comfortable on stage.  He never expected to see this and has a new view on Gabriella and Troy’s singing.  Jack sees that Troy is happy with Gabriella and realizes that Troy is very talented in something other than basketball.

Coach Bolton now really likes Gabriella and is okay with Troy singing with her.  He now knows that it’s alright to have multiple focuses in life.  He doesn’t think his son should do only basketball.  He is more supportive of Troy and his hobbies.  He is still hard on Troy when it comes to basketball and wants to see him succeed, but he understands that his son doesn’t only play basketball: he is a singer and performer too.

Jack Bolton still wants to see Troy do really good things in basketball.  Most of all, he wants to see his son go to his alma mater to play basketball.  However, Troy chooses to go to a college where he can play basketball and perform.  This is hard for Coach Bolton to accept, but he is able to be happy for Troy and support him in his decision.

In High School Musical 1 Taylor McKessie becomes Gabriella’s best friend.  When Gabriella first comes to East High, Taylor immediately tries to get Gabriella to join her academic decathlon.  However, this gets in the way of their friendship when she and Chad try to get in between Troy and Gabriella.  Taylor becomes self centered and doesn’t think of Troy and Gabriella’s feelings.  In the end of the movie, Taylor is able to realize this and repair her and Gabriella’s friendship.  In addition, she and Chad start to like each other.

In the summer of their senior year, Taylor and many of the other Wildcats get a summer job at Lava Springs.  Taylor becomes in charge of the schedules but is afraid of the boss who is intimidating.  When he makes an announcement that staff is not allowed to perform in the staff talent show, she is able to help the rest of the her peers perform and have a great time.

Senior year comes with lots of excitement.  Senior prom is coming up and the East High Musical.  Taylor and the rest of her friends get involved and start planning a great musical.  At the same time, Chad is trying to get the courage to ask Taylor to the prom.  She is giving him a hard time while he is trying to ask her.  Taylor finally says yes and they have a great time together a prom.  The Wildcats have a great end of the year and are all very excited for their futures.  After graduating, Taylor attends Yale University.

 

Gabriella Montez is one of the most well-known characters in High School Musical.  She came to East High in the middle of her junior year.  She was always very smart and known as the genius girl.  She won lots of different awards, and was always recognized at her school for her smarts.  Gabriella was never sure if she was anything more than that, the school’s scholar.

Gabriella felt like there was something else to her than just being smart.  She felt something in her heart trying to come out.  In the first movie, she asks her friend Taylor, “Do you ever feel like there’s a whole other side of you just dying to come out?”  Gabriella clearly feels like there’s something about her that she just hasn’t figured out yet.  Thanks to Troy Bolton, she’s able to discover that side of her.

In the beginning of High School Musical 1, Troy and Gabriella are forced to karaoke together.  At first Gabriella is very hesitant and feels out of place.  However, by the end of the song, she is very comfortable and is enjoying herself.  Throughout the year, she and Tory practice for their musical.  They sing in almost every break and really start to enjoy it.

That new interest in singing made Gabriella feel like she was a whole new person.  She realized that she had found something, besides school, that she really enjoyed.  She thought that her singing was a new way to express herself.  She felt good doing it and it made her happy.

Through the next two High School Musicals, we see Gabriella embody the new person singing had made her.  She realized that singing was one of her passions.  Gabriella felt more confident and it was contagious.  Everyone around her became more involved and had more fun because of what she learned about herself.  Even though Gabriella didn’t have singing in her profession, she still found a new hobby and something that filled her with joy.