Drew Seeley, Corbin Bleu, Lucas Grabeel, Kenny Ortega, Bart Johnson and Vanessa Hudgens. Courtesy of Drew Seeley/Instagram
Wildcats endlessly! Practically 16 years after High School Musical premiered on Disney Channel, it still feels like kindergarten between the stars.
“Like no time has handed. #HSM reunion in Paris 🇫🇷👌,” Drew Seeley, who supplied the singling vocals for Zac Efron’s Troy Bolton within the first movie, captioned a Saturday, November 12, Instagram selfie along with his former costars.
The Another Cinderella Story actor, 40, met up with Vanessa Hudgens, Corbin Bleu, Lucas Grabeel, Bart Johnson and director Kenny Ortega on the “Again to the Musical World 2” conference in Paris. The Dream It occasion reunited the choreographer, 72, with the casts of Excessive Faculty Musical, Descendants and Julie and the Phantoms, all of which he directed.
The HSM squad later thrilled conference attendees as they recalled memories filming the Disney Channel hit on the mainstage. Seeley and the Princess Change star, 33, even sang an acoustic rendition of Troy and Gabriella’s ballad “Breaking Free,” per social media footage.
Excessive Faculty Musical premiered on Disney Channel in 2006, starring Hudgens as prodigy Gabriella Montez reverse Efron’s basketball-playing Troy Bolton. After the twosome sparked a karaoke connection over winter break, they had been shocked to study that Gabriella and her mother had simply relocated to his native Albuquerque, New Mexico, and enrolled her on the similar college of East Excessive. The franchise — which sparked sequels in 2007 and 2009 — additionally starred Grabeel, 37, Bleu, 33, Monique Coleman and Ashley Tisdale. Whereas the entire crew both acted and sang in the franchise, Seeley notably crooned all of Efron’s solos within the first film. (The Canada native reprised the function of Troy throughout the “Excessive Faculty Musical: The Live performance” tour.)
“Within the first film, after all the things was recorded, my voice was not on them,” Efron, 35, instructed the Orlando Sentinel in July 2007 of not singing within the first flick. “I used to be not likely given an evidence. It simply form of occurred that means. Sadly, it put me in an ungainly place. It’s not one thing I anticipated to be addressed. Then, High School Musical blew up. I’m very lucky that Drew has gotten correct credit score and likewise that I’ve gotten the chance to come back again [in the second and third films, respectively] and check out it once more with my very own voice.”
The Hairspray actor was able to provide his own vocals in Excessive Faculty Musical 2 and Excessive Faculty Musical 3: Senior Yr, whereas Seeley by no means regretted his personal expertise.
“Any actor would have cherished that function, however Zac did an important job. He was the proper man for the job,” the songwriter said in an August 2021 TikTok. “[I] did get to do the excursions. Everyone wins, a lot love.”
