Not Sticking to the Status Quo

I had so much fun last night watching CTA's Production of High School Musical. So fun! The cast had a blast and I got inspired again. Kim was amazing! I think that she's better than Gabriella, but i'm biased. I don't think her or Danny's mic worked all night, but in that small theater, it didn't matter. I kinda kept thinking how does one go from being in a big production of MS to going into this production. She must be one truly awesome and down-to-earth person to not let that effect her. She looked like she had a great time with the role. Troy was pretty good too. I couldn't quite fathom that The Foreman/Berkeley Police Officer was going to play Troy, but he did well. It was nice chatting with him @ half-time.
testing my really bad memory, which is worse than my spelling. the show opened up with cheerleaders starting the Wildcat Cheer, the guys talking about the upcoming basketball game, and gabriella is introduced. the flashbacked into the ski lodge where troy and gab met and the karaoke contest. :) oh, then to mrs. darbus's drama class where sharpay, ryan, gab, troy, and chad get detention for using their cellphones in class. off to the hallway, where gab and troy talk about the posting for a musical, but they don't have any interest in it. sharpay tries to flirt with troy. GETCHA HEAD IN THE GAME was cool. i think that there were 6 basketball players on stage while they did the song. Oh then we go into the Chem Lab where gab corrects the teacher on an equation on the board. all the while sharpay is trying to tell gab how selfish troy is so that gab won't like him. doesn't work as she just concentrates on the problem. Then off to the theater where sharpay leads the warmup drills. then another exercise where mrs. darbus gives them the assignment to pretend to be an animal. OMG. there was this actor who pretended to be an earthworm. i was dying. i don't remember anything else because i was just trying to figure out what he was and then when i did realize what he was, i couldn't take my eyes off of him. so funny when troy and chad flipped him over and he just sqirmmed. OMG! hilarious! Then after that scene was the auditions! HILARIOUS. the students lined up in a row with their backs to us and when it was time to audition to WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR they'd each turn around. each were hecka funny like in the movie. Then Sharpay and Ryan did their thing and it was hecka good as well. hecka good! After they leave, troy and gab sing WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR, the Kelsi version. Nina good! Then there was another new song called CELLULAR FUSION but i don't remember that :( then my favorite scene came up - in the cafeteria STICK TO THE STATUS QUO. it ended with the guy who bakes (my fave part in the song) accidentally splatting sharpay with a cake he made. intermission.

at intermission me and cayote went across the street to get some much needed breath mints/gum. oh, and he got mocha flavored kit kats. oo, so good.

act two
scene opens up at the rooftop garden. troy and gab have their little scene. i don't know why, but everytime gab starts with the "kindergarten" speech, it always cracks me up. i don't know why, just does. then they sing a new duet called I CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF OF YOU as they are on each side of the stage. cute. I'm skipping a couple of scenes to COUNTING ON YOU where the jocks and the braniacs sing to troy and gab about how they need to concentrate on the science thing and basketball game. at the end of the song, to shut them up troy tells the jocks and cheerleaders that the singing doesn't mean anything to him... and neither does gabriella. unfortunately, someone had a cellephone that caught troy saying this, and gabriella heard all this. :( now, i'm most likely mixing this scene with something else, but when another new song called WHEN THERE WAS ME AND YOU came on, it was a duet with troy and gab, and it ended with the cast around the two leads with the lights off, with the exception of the spots, with their cellphones lighting around them. good idea. i'll steal that. maybe. everything after that is a blur. realizing that gab and troy are miserable, the jocks and the braniacs come up with their plan to get them to audition WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. before they arrive, we see sharpay and ryan's audition BOP TO THE TOP. that ryan kid was really good and played the part over the top, but fun. moonwalked too! then troy and gab show up to sing BREAKING FREE.

overall, i had fun. didn't really have to think that much which is fun sometimes. some insights. sharpay's character played more of the protagonist. i also liked it when sharpay tells ryan that if she didn't get the lead then she no longer filled that only role that she sees herself in. sad to think that a person can box themselves into, but it's really a part of growing up. sadly, there are adults who feel that way too. "i'm nothing if i can't be this." ryan turns out to be a good guy, not only but telling sharpay that she is more than the role that she puts herself into, but also ratting sharpay out. i'm inspired to know that this kind of music is needed and can work for today's musical.

i'm excited for another musical in ny that just opened last week on broadway called SPRING AWAKENINGS. i'm a little put off that it's another rock musical. like that's the new buzz word - rock musical. it's cool, but it's been done. RENT comes to mind. the 2 musicals that breaks this "mold" is an asian-american musical called MAKING TRACKS, though the writer claims to make the musical more rock, but sounds more pop to me. and HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL. it's more my kind of genre - pop. i'm not going to deny it because that's what i grew up with. well that and r&b. i know that these kinds of musicals have been done, but i haven't seen it yet. i take that back, i have on dvd... and when i think of the titles i'll let you know.

thanks sis for letting me know about this!