New stills from High School Musical 3 surface online

On Ebay, a new bunch of stills from High School Musical 3 were put for sale. In the lot there's some never seen from the prom scene with Monique, Corbin, Zac and Vanessa on a group photo. Checkout below some of the stills

Disney reveals High School Musical 20th Anniversary Logo

On January 20, 2026, High School Musical will turn 20 and Disney shared the official logo for the licensed items available on their stores and other merch items. With the same concept of the movie logo, the 20th features a marquee style design. Check the logo below

Disney's official logo of High School Musical 20th Anniversary

There's also some new shirts with the logo available on Disney's Store on Amazon

Peter Barsocchini talks about High School Musical 20th anniversary and HSM4

On June 2025, Peter Barsocchini talked about a possible High School Musical 20th Anniversary and the interest of Disney on doing something special with the "interest of a certain original cast member doing that" and mentioning HSM4 getting the band back together.

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— High School Musical Fan Archive (@archive_hsm) November 9, 2025

On June 2025, Peter Barsocchini talked on the Legends N Leaders Podcast about High School Musical 20th Anniversary and the interest of Disney on doing something special with the "interest of a certain original cast member doing that" and mentioning High School Musical 4 getting the band back together:

"There is tremendous interest on the part of the people who own the rights, being the Walt Disney Company, to do something for the 20th anniversary of High School Musical that would come out and it will be contingent on a certain cast member being interested in doing that, you know, because everything's more would be more expensive. But we've had discussions. People are willing to get roll up their sleeves and do it if all the pieces can come together. We the people created the movie, didn't do the TV show version of High School Musical. You know, that was a different entity. And though we had all the taste of that, but it was different entity. But if we do High School 4 it's going to be we're going to get the band back together and and do the thing we have. We have an idea for what it would be. It's kind of cool. It's not just a victory lap or you know, because we wouldn't want to piss people off who said, "Oh my God, I invested my childhood in these 3 movies and now they did this". So we don't want to do that. But so we're on the case. We'll see if it happens."

In May 2016, Disney started to cast High School Musical 4 with an event including Corbin Bleu doing an open audition for more than 5000 people. The project was closed and then in 2019, HIgh School Musical: The Musical: The Series premiered on Disney+ with the idea of keeping the franchise name alive and bringing a new generation to the Wildcats world, as mentioned by Peter, HSMTMTS is not property of the same people that worked on the films so there's still a hope on having another chapter to the franchise on the near future.

Disney Channel Stars are just like you - High School Musical Commercial, 2006

In 2006 Disney Channel released a series of videos with the title "Disney Channel Stars are just like you" to show some behind the scenes moments of the actors and actresses from their films just having fun.

Below you can watch High School Musical's cast version of this commercial

Kenny Ortega talks about his best memory while filming High School Musical

During the premiere of Stranger Things: The First Shadow on Broadway, Kenny Ortega gave a interview to People Magazine about his best memory while filming High School Musical trilogy. You can read the transcription below

One big, big memory, there's so many of them, but we were filming High School Musical 1 and we were filming the finale "We're All In This Together" and we had all of this cameras going, the cast and the dancers and I looked in to the gymnasium and said, "Man if Disney does the job we're doing here this is gonna reach a lot of people", and I took the cast and put them in a circle and said, "Get ready, I think your lives are gonna change". [...] Just had this premonition, this feeling that we're up to something that was gonna matter.

You can watch his interview below on @archive_hsm

"I took the cast and put them in a circle and said: 'Get ready, I think your lives are gonna change'" - Kenny Ortega talking to People Magazine on his big memory filming High School Musical pic.twitter.com/frNzXIgYWX

— High School Musical Archive (@archive_hsm) April 25, 2025

The moment mentioned by Kenny was filmed during the making of High School Musical in August 13, 2005.

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Inspirations from 42nd Street in "I Want it All"

The inspirations for the musical sequence from Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale) and Ryan Evans (Lucas Grabeel) dates back from 1933.

On interviews for promotion of High School Musical 3, Kenny Ortega talked about the movies, musical directors and scenes where he took inspiration from Bob Fosse's Chicago, Chorus Line and  Busby Berkeley's 42nd Street. Some elements from this film are also hidden in the background as some easter eggs. See bellow some of the side-by-side comparisons.

I Want It All Taxi Scene with the easter egg 42nd Street sign in the background

The dancing buildings in the background make close reference to a still photography of 42nd Street and to the ending scene of the movie

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The marquees and the dancers are a close reference to the 42nd Street shot. In High School Musical 3 the dancers are inspired by the Radio City Rockettes.

High School Musical Production Logo - 2005

This High School Musical production logo was used in the crew chairs on the set of the film. Production logos are often used when films are still in production and there is not a final title or design for the movie.

This logo different from the final one, gets the look inspired by some school elements are the font and the triangle teams flags, making the union of the music and sports - main plot of the film.

 

East High Plays

Posters and information about East High's plays that are featured over High School Musical movies. Most of the play posters are from Sharpay and Ryan since the idea of those were to make them the popular theater kids with the most successfull and number of play during their High School years. *Posters and photos might be in lower quality and edited from movie screenshots.

Poster	Title	Information
	Twinkle Town	Part of the story of High School Musical's plot this play was the 'high school musical' to be produced during the film and stared by Troy and Gabriella after getting the part with "Breaking Free" callback performance.
	Sibling Piracy	The best poster available from production photos of the movie. The poster display the date of the play on East High Theater on May 12 - 18
	Goodbye, Mr. Kirchner	A novel inspired play set in Paris, France. Text in the poster reads, "Staring Sharpay Evans with Ryan Evans East High Auditorium Jan. 4-22"
	A Night On Curtain Street	Detective inspired play. Poster text reads, "Sharpay Evans in A Night On Curtain Street with Ryan Evans. Music by Kelsi Nielsen".
	Spring Thing	Played by Sharpay Evans. This poster first appeared in High School Musical 2 behind the scenes rehearsals photos
	Final Descent	A Plane inspired play with Sharpay as an flight attendant with a full pink outfit. Poster reads, "A New Musical Comedy [...]. East High Theater October 8.
	Louis Kablooey!	A 18th century inspired play played by Sharpay Evans
	"The Bells of St. Helens"	Sharpay Evans play with alphs inspired plot
	Midnight Tropicale	A summer/beach musical. This poster appears in the taxi dressing room in "I Want it All"
	Man of La Jolla	Ryan Evans' solo play that features a medieval age look from its poster. Some of the posters are spotted during High School Musical 3.
	A Ryan in Winter	Another poster that is visible throughout the movie inside East High. This play Ryan plays the role of a King or a Knight. The poster shows the information Music and Lyrics by Ryan Evans.
	Awhile in the Nile	Egypt inspired play
	Backstage Baby!	Unknown description

Wildcat World - April 16, 2007

Wildcat World is a fictional newspaper created in 2007 for High School Musical 2. Different from the yearbook that is visible in "What Time is It", this newspaper was just a prop used in background scenes.

Fan signed by Ashley Tisdale copy of the Wildcat World newspaper

This issue was created with the date of April 16, 2007, same year of shooting High School Musical 2, although the photo used in this was from mockup photographs from 2005, time period when High School Musical started production.

The subtitle of the picture is the only part visible of the text in this rare photo from the newspaper prop that reads "Sharpay Evans wows the audience with her dazzling performance in this year's Spring Musical. Record breaking tickets sales helped to make it the most successful drama production in East High history."

Wildcat World Logo used in the prop newspaper.