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April 29, 2019

Zeke Baker

Zeke Baker is part of the East High Wildcats basketball team. He is good friends with Troy and Chad. Throughout the High School Musical series we see him branching out and revealing more of who he is. He is a very good example of someone who can be themselves without worrying about what his friends and other people think about him. Zeke is not afraid to be himself and do what he loves.

In HSM 1, Zeke hasn’t yet expressed his love for baking. However, when Troy confesses that he has become a singer and is auditioning for the school’s musical, Zeke gains the courage to tell his peers that he bakes. At first his friends take this as a joke. By the end of the movie however, Zeke becomes accepted as a baker by his friends.

During the summer before Zeke’s senior year, he gets the job as assistant to the head chef at Lava Springs Country Club. Zeke is very excited for this opportunity and is also very pleased because he gets to see a lot of Sharpay, his crush. Zeke constantly tries to impress her but unfortunately is not very successful. Zeke has a really fun time performing with his fellow Wildcats during the Lava Springs Talent Show.

In Zeke’s senior year, he and the Wildcats bsketball team were able to pull together and win the championship. He is still trying to impress Sharpay and she finally notices and goes to prom with him. Zeke participates in the East High Musical with a lot of his friends. He has a super fun time being with all his classmates one last time before they graduate. Zeke ends HSM 3 with a huge smile and diploma!

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019

Jimmie Zara

Jimmie Zara, a.k.a. “The Rocket Man”, is only in the third and final high school musical. He is a bench warmer on the basketball team. He looks up to Troy, Chad, and the rest of the seniors. As Troy and the seniors are finishing up their final season, Jimmie is preparing to “take over” the team. However, Troy and Chad want Jimmie to earn this.

During the championship game the Wildcats are down one point with only time for one more possession. The other team knows that Troy is going to be the one to shoot the last shot so they triple team him. Troy wants Rocket Man in the game because the other team will never expect him to take the final shot. Troy’s plan works and Rocket Man wins the championship game for the Wildcats! This boosts Jimmie’s confidence and makes him think more about his roll on the team once Troy has gone to college.

When Jimmie and his other friend ask for Troy and Chad’s basketball lockers in the locker room, Troy and Chad are happy to give the lockers to them. However, they want them to earn them. So, while Jimmie and his friend are in the shower, Troy and Chad steal their clothes and Jimmie has to chase them all around the school to get them back. This is very humiliating for them, but ultimately they get the lockers and know that it was all just a joke.

While the Wildcats are working on the Senior Year Musical, Rocket Man is assigned to be Troy’s understudy. He doesn’t really know what this means but someone tells him that the understudy never has to go in. Because of this Jimmie doesn’t take it very seriously. However, when Troy and Gabriella are late to the musical Jimmie is called to go in with Sharpay (Gabriella’s understudy). He is not very good, but he enjoys himself while he is preforming. Eventually, Troy and Gabriella come in the save the day.

In the end, Jimmie is a character that shows a lot of growth throughout the movie. He starts out as a pretty shy highschooler and throughout the year he gains a lot of confidence. We can see him shape into a personality that is similar to Troy’s and know that he will be very successful and popular in his final years at East High.

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019

High School Musical 1 Review

High School Musical 1 is the first movie in a three movie series. It was released on January 20, 2006 and become Disney Channel’s most successful original movie. It was the first Disney Channel Original Movie to have a theatrical sequel. The soundtrack from High School Musical 1 became very popular in the United States and reached number 1 on America’s charts in 2006. High School Musical 1 was written by Peter Barsocchini and directed by Kenny Ortega. It stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Lucas Grabeel, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, and Monique Coleman.

In High School Musical 1 Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) transfers to East High School after winter break. She had met the basketball team star (Zac Efron) during vacation and is surprised, and happy to run into him at her new high school. They quickly become friends and try out for their school’s musical. However, Troy’s teammates aren’t thrilled with his new hobby. Troy’s best friend (Corbin Bleu) and Gabriella’s best friend (Monique Coleman) come up with a plan to make sure can’t be in the musical. Unfortunately, this ruins all of their friendships and they must work together to make things right.

Gabriella Montez is very bright. She is also very adventurous and open to trying newthings. Troy Bolton is the basketball star. He is always found playing basketball until he meets Gabriella. She opens him up and shows us a different side of him. Chad Danforth is the funny sidekick. He always makes us laugh and seems fun to be around. Taylor McKessie is also very smart and is the president of the academic decathlon. She is a very good friend to Gabriella. Sharpay Evens is bossy and rich. She feels like she runs the school and isn’t very friendly to many people. Ryan Evens is Sharpay’s brother he is always following her around and at times seems very clueless to what’s going on.

High School Musical is mainly about friendship. In the movie we see how friends can be torn apart and how that changes the people individually. A theme from High School Musical is nothing is more important than friendship. In the movie when Troy and Gabriella are mad at each other they are both very sad. Even though Taylor and Chad’s plan worked, neither of them are happy to see their best friends so miserable. In the end they realize that what they wanted (Troy and Gabriella not to be in the musical) wasn’t what their friends wanted. Taylor and Chad decide that it is more important for Troy and Gabriella to be happy and friends again than it is if they sing in the musical or if they don’t.

Overall I think High School Musical is a great movie. It is definitely a feel-good one. All the songs and fun characters always leave you walking away with a smile. The songs are really what makes the movie so great. Once you have watched the movie a couple of times you find yourself singing along with every single song. I think this is what makes this movie so enjoyable and easy to watch over and over again.

October 6, 2018October 6, 2018

Sharpay Evens is probably seen as the main antagonist in the High School Musicals. However, she may just be misunderstood. Sharpay knows what she wants and has the resources to get it almost all the time. The problem comes when she acts without thinking about how she is affecting her peers.

In HSM 1, Sharpay is just doing her normal thing, trying out for the winter musical(knowing she’s going to get the main role) and flirting with Troy. When newcomer Gabriella tries for the musical out with Troy, Sharpay is immediately put off to Gabriella. She tries multiple things to make sure that Gabriella and Troy can’t get the part. Despite all her clever “tricks”, Troy and Gabriella still find a way to get the part. Sharpay is embarrassed but is able to get over it and ends up feeling happy for Troy and Gabriella.

In the summer before their senior year, almost all of Troy’s team, Gabriella, and many of her friends go to work at Lava Springs. When they get there, they realize Sharpay’s parents own the resort. Sharpay can basically do and get whatever she wants here. She soon realizes that she can give Troy something that he has been really insecure about: college. Sharpay’s father is on the board of directors at Troy’s dream college and he can insure Troy a spot on that basketball team with a scholarship. Sharpay uses this to make Troy promise to sing with her. During all of this she is basically breaking Tory and Gabriella up. In the end, she is let down by Troy but they all figure out what they really want, and work things out.

In HSM 3, their senior year, the main focuses are on the Senior Year Musical. This year, the musical is more of a team effort. Gabriella and Troy are the main role, and Sharpay is Gabriella’s understudy. When Gabriella has to leave high school to go to an early enrollment program at Stanford, Sharpay finally has her chance to sing with Troy. However, she doesn’t realize that Troy is gone too! She ends up having to sing with “Rocket Man” who is, let’s just say, not Troy. At the end of the year, Sharpay announces that she is going to go the University of Albuquerque and is going to come back to East High to help out with the musicals.