High School Musical 3: Senior Year is the third installment in Disney's High School Musical film franchise. Its theatrical release in the United States began on October 24, 2008. Kenny Ortega returned as director andchoreographer, as did all six primary actors. This latest sequel follows high school seniors Troy and Gabriella, who are faced with the ultimate prospect of being separated after graduating from East High. Joined by the rest of their Wildcat friends, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes, and fears about the future. In spite of receiving mixed reviews, in its first three days of release, High School Musical 3: Senior Year grossed $16 million on an opening day in North America for a total of $42 million in North America and an additional $40 million overseas, breaking the record for the largest opening weekend for a musical film. It's the end of the Wildcats' championship basketball game against the West High Knights, where team captain Troy (Zac Efron) immediately rallies their spirits ("Now Or Never"). With the team’s spirit raised, they win, thanks to the winning shot from their newest team member Jimmie "The Rocket" Zara (Matt Prokop). Later, at Troy's after-match party at his house, Troy and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) are seen thinking about their future and wishing that their last few months at East High would not end ("Right Here, Right Now"). Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) meets Tiara Gold (Jemma McKenzie-Brown), a British exchange student whom she hires to be her personal assistant. When drama teacher Ms. Darbus (Alyson Reed) notices that there were so few sign-ups for the spring musical, Sharpay suggests she could do a one-woman show. This alarms Kelsi (Olesya Rulin), who is writing the show, so she signs up everyone in the class for it instead. This results in Ms. Darbus announcing they will create a play about their final days at East High, called "Senior Year." In addition, she reveals that Sharpay, Ryan (Lucas Grabeel), Kelsi, and Troy have all been considered for a scholarship at Juilliard, but only one of them is to be chosen. Sharpay becomes desperate to win the scholarship, and knowing that Kelsi will give the best songs to Troy and Gabriella in the musical, she gets Ryan to try to persuade Kelsi to give them a song, by predicting her (and Ryan's) future ("I Want It All"). The next day, Gabriella and Troy meet on the rooftop and she teaches him how to waltz ("Can I Have This Dance"). Chad (Corbin Bleu) then asks Taylor (Monique Coleman) to go to prom with him. She initially refuses due to his lack of enthusiasm, but later agrees when Chad proves he can put in some effort and asks again in front of everyone in the school. The group rehearses for the musical, a scene about their prom night ("A Night To Remember"). Ryan walks in on Kelsi composing ("Just Wanna Be With You") in the music room, and performs it with her, and then he asks her to prom halfway through. While Troy and Chad reminisce about their past ("The Boys Are Back"), Sharpay and Tiara discover that Gabriella has a chance to go to college early. Sharpay later convinces Troy that he is the only thing keeping Gabriella from her dream, ("Right Here, Right Now (Reprise)"). Troy talks to Gabriella about this over pizza, and after sharing an awkward goodnight, Gabriella ("Walk Away") leaves for college the next day. Troy's dad, Jack (Bart Johnson), talks to him about his academic future. Troy becomes angry, confused, and runs away, storming around East High confused("Scream") until he finally screams at the top of his lungs in the theatre. Ms. Darbus has been there all this time watching and reveals that she sent in his application for Juilliard, as she knew how comfortable he was on stage and how much he liked it. Troy takes no offense and thinks about the advice given to him. Troy later gets a call from Gabriella saying that although she loves him, she will not return to Albuquerque, as she is too used to being away. However, on the night of prom, Troy visits Gabriella at Stanford and convinces her to return, as everyone is not the same without her, ("Can I Have This Dance (Reprise)"). Back at East High, Jimmie receives a text from Troy to tell him to cover for him onstage because he is going to be late. The Juilliard representatives are there, and watch as the show seems to go well, ("Senior Year Spring Musical"). During the opening number, Kelsi and Ryan debut. While during the second number, Chad, Jason (Ryne Sanborn), Zeke (Chris Warren Jr.) and Martha (Kaycee Stroh) debut, Ryan does his number with the many chorus girls; Jimmie then performs with Sharpay, and embarrassed her. Troy and Gabriella appear during the second half of the show and sing their duet together. Tiara then betrays Sharpay and tells her how she is going to take over next year in the drama department. Sharpay finally learns how it feels to be humiliated, but does not wish to go down. While Tiara performs, Sharpay immediately crashes her performance and shows her up. Ms. Darbus reveals that both Kelsi and Ryan have won the Juilliard scholarship ("We're All in This Together (Graduation Mix)"). Taylor will go to Yale University; Sharpay will go to University of Albuquerque along with that, she will also assist Ms. Darbus in running the drama department in the fall (so that Tiara does not get to take over the Drama Department). Troy decides to go to the University of California, Berkeley, where he can play basketball, study drama, and be close to Gabriella. After learning about Troy's decision, Chad runs offstage and into the school gym. There he and Troy work things out and learn that their college's basketball teams will play each other the upcoming fall. Chad is attending the University of Albuquerque. At the graduation ceremony, Troy gives the class speech. Throwing their caps in the air, the graduates form a giant wildcat before breaking out into song and dance ("High School Musical"). The six stars walk down the field where a curtain closes off the graduation ceremony and turns into a stage. The six stars do their signature jump and then the camera does a close up of each actor. They take their final bow as the curtain closes. The end credits are in the style of a high school yearbook. According to the Salt Lake City Tribune, "...to help lure the production back to where it all began – at Salt Lake City's East High School – the GOED board Friday approved a maximum $2 million incentive for the production, the largest ever given to entice a filmmaker to Utah."[3] Filming began on May 3, 2008. The 41 days scheduled for shooting was a longer period than for the first two films.[4] Stan Carrizosa, the winner of ABC's summer reality show, High School Musical: Get in the Picture appears in a music video "Just Getting Started" that is shown over the end credits of the theatrical release of the film.[5] The show's other 11 finalists were featured in the music video as well. Zac Efron was quoted in People Magazine as saying, "I can tell you that if the script is good and if we all agree on a final script, then there's nothing that is going to hold us back from doing it. We have fun making these movies and that's very rare in this business."[6] Rumors persisted of ongoing salary disputes between Disney and the lead performers, particularly Efron. According to Rachel Abramowitz, as reported online by the Chicago Tribune, "an eclectic cross-section of Hollywood insiders think Efron should get a cool $5 million for High School Musical 3, the theatrical version of the franchise, which Disney hoped to make before the Writers Guild strike and Screen Actors Guild strike shut down Hollywood for several months. Efron declined to comment for the article, and although contract negotiations still are ongoing, sources say Efron is being offered a salary closer to $3 million, not $5 million, for the follow-up, which focuses on senior year at East High. Whatever the price, he's still perceived as a steal."[7] Ortega stated that pre-production would most likely start in January 2008. Filming began May 3, 2008, at East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. He stated that the script had been submitted before the Writers strike started and that they were developing music. He added that filming will happen in Salt Lake City, Utah (as the first two films), hinted that the plot will be something of the nature of the Wildcat's final year in High School and stated, "it looks like we've rounded up the cast."[8][9] Before filming began, the HSM3 board and cast held a press conference at East High School announcing the start of filming. The movie would be released in theaters (in the United States) on October 24, 2008, though the movie was to open in several countries including Great Britain at least one week earlier. The film had a $13.3 million dollar budget and a 40-day shooting period. This film was said at the time to be the final installment with the current cast.[10] Despite early speculation that Vanessa Hudgens would be dropped from High School Musical 3 due to her nude photo scandal, The Walt Disney Company denied the reports, saying, "Vanessa has apologized for what was obviously a lapse in judgment. We hope she's learned a valuable lesson."[11] Although it was reported by OK! Magazine that Hudgens would be replaced by Adrienne Bailon or Sabrina Bryan from the Cheetah Girls in High School Musical 3,[12] Access Hollywood confirmed that the cast was still in negotiations and Hudgens would not be cut from High School Musical 3. Hudgens's representative quoted, "Totally untrue. It is an old rumor," the representative told Access, "OK! Magazine never bothered to check the fact with me, but they did call Disney who said it wasn't true, but yet OK! ran it anyway. Apparently, OK! Magazine was having a slow news day."[13] As of April 2009, High School Musical 3: Senior Year has a fresh rating of 66% at Rotten Tomatoes, who gave it a golden tomato for best musical film of 2008, and has been generally well received.[14][15] The Telegraph praises the changes brought about by the higher budget of a theatrical release: "High School Musical 3 uses its bigger budget to inject colour, scale, and visual depth. The opening basketball game alone is dizzying as the camera swoops high and wide, before a winning point makes the crowd erupt".[16] Stephen Farber, for Reuters UK, says the movie "will please fan base but won't win converts", as the story "never really does kick in" and that "the picture quickly grows tedious",[17] while MSNBC's Alonso Duralde describes it as "a stitched-together Frankenstein monster of an entertainment, featuring major components that were already trotted out the first two times."[18] Peter Johnson describes the movie as so bland that it "makes cellophane taste like chickenjalfrezi", and says that "the sheer squeaky-cleanness of everything is creepy, and when the characters are called upon to dance, they do so with robotic efficiency, and sing in that decaffeinated high vibrato, like 21st-century Hollywood castrati."[19] Entertainment Weekly on the other hand was positive toward the movie, praising the stars' energy: "the beauty of Efron's performance is that he's a vibrant athletic hoofer who leaps and clowns with the heartthrob vigor of a young Gene Kelly, yet he's also achingly sincere. His fast-break alertness makes him the most empathetic of teen idols; he's like a David Cassidy who knows how to act, and who can swoon without getting too moist about it. Apart from Efron, the breakout star is Ashley Tisdale, whose Sharpay makes narcissism a goofy, bedazzled pleasure."[20] The Fort Worth Star-Telegram stated that the latest installment was "critic-proof" and "everything fans could hope for and more." They go on to say that "the kids finally look like true performers rather than Disney Channel mainstays desperately trying to remain relevant, and they deserve the lucrative careers that lie ahead" and gave the film a rating of four out of five stars. The movie was also well received in the UK.[21] Hudgens was recognized as Favorite Movie Actress at Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards, Efron was voted Best Male Performance at the 2009 MTV awards and Tisdale was voted Breakthrough Performance Female at the 2009 MTV Movie awards. The film opened $16.9 million on Friday behind Hannah Montana: The Movie for the biggest opening day for a musical film of all-time, which made at #1 with a domestic opening weekend of $42,030,184 from 5,900 screens across 3,623 theaters, for a $11,601 per theater average and a $7,124 per screen average, and breaking the record, previously held by Mamma Mia! The Movie and next year's Hannah Montana: The Movie, for the biggest opening ever for a movie musical.[22] The film also opened at #1 overseas, with an international opening of $40,000,000. As of February 8, 2009, High School Musical 3: Senior Year made $90,559,416 in domestic and $160,502,011 in other territories leading up for a total of $251,061,427 worldwide.[23] Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2009 On November 7, 2008, High School Musical 3: Senior Year: The Sing-Along Edition with lyrics highlighted on the screen was released in selected theaters.[24] High School Musical 3: Senior Year was released in Region 1 DVD and Blu-ray on February 17, 2009[25], in Region 2 DVD on February 16, 2009[26] and in Region 3 DVD on February 24, 2009.[27] The DVD was released in single- and two-disc editions.[28] In Region 2 the 1-Disc edition DVD featured most of the 2-Disc edition bonus features such as Bloopers, Deleted Scenes, Extended version of the Movie, Sing along and cast goodbyes.[29] In Region 3, only the 1-Disc edition DVD released with all of the 2-Disc bonus features as well the extended edition of the movie. Region 4 DVD release (Australia) was released on 8 April 2009. Features:High School Musical 3: Senior Year 
Theatrical release posterDirected by Kenny Ortega Produced by Bill Borden
Barry Rosenbush
Don Schain (co-producer)Written by Peter Barsocchini Starring Zac Efron
Vanessa Hudgens
Ashley Tisdale
Lucas Grabeel
Corbin Bleu
Monique ColemanMusic by David Lawrence
Matthew Gerrard
Robbie Nevil
Shankar Mahadevan
Jamie HoustonCinematography Daniel Aranyò Editing by Seth Flaum Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures Release date(s) North America
October 24, 2008Running time Original cut
112 min.
Extended cut
117 min.Country United States Language English Budget $11 million[1] Gross revenue $251,061,427(worldwide)[2] Preceded by High School Musical 2 [edit]Plot
[edit]Cast
Students Adults [edit]Musical numbers
Song Lead Singers Scene Notes Now or Never Troy & Gabriella The Championship Game Right Here, Right Now Troy & Gabriella After-party at Bolton Residence Reprise later visited on DVD/Blu-Ray only I Want It All Sharpay & Ryan Sharpay's Dream Sequence Can I Have This Dance? Troy & Gabriella Gabriella teaches Troy the waltz A Night To Remember Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Ryan, Chad, Taylor,
Kelsi, Zeke, Jason, MarthaRehearsal for musical number Just Wanna Be With You Ryan & Kelsi; Troy & Gabriella A declaration of love The Boys Are Back Troy and Chad Riley's Auto Salvage Junkyard Walk Away Gabriella Gabriella's move to Stanford University Scream Troy Troy's decision to stay in theater and basketball Can I Have This Dance?
(Reprise)Troy and Gabriella Troy convinces Gabriella to move back Senior Year Spring Musical Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Ryan, Chad, Taylor,
Kelsi, Zeke, Jason, Martha, Jimmie, TiaraThe Spring Musical performance Featuring: Last Chance, Now or Never, I Want it All,
Just Want to be with You, A Night to RememberWe're All In This Together
(Graduation Mix)Wildcat Chorus East High Graduation Ceremony A reprise from the first installment High School Musical Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Ryan, Chad, Taylor East High Graduation Ceremony [edit]Production
[edit]Development
[edit]Vanessa Hudgens photo controversy
[edit]Reception
[edit]Critical reaction
[edit]Box office performance
[edit]Awards and nominations
[edit]Other releases
[edit]Sing-Along
[edit]Home release
Single-disc Two-disc Three-disc (Blu-ray Edition) The theatrical cut of the film (1:52:15) An extended cut of the film (1:57:17) Cast Goodbyes (5:39) Sing-along Deleted scenes (6:30) Bloopers (2:45) Featurettes:
1. Cast Goodbyes (5:39)
2. It's All in the Dress (2:30)
3. Night of Nights (7:26)A DisneyFile digital copy (Region 1 DVD only) Extended Edition DVD [edit]References
High School Musical 3
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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