‘Excessive College Musical’ Authentic Forged Reunites in Paris: Picture

Wildcats eternally! Practically 16 years after Excessive College Musical premiered on Disney Channel, it nonetheless looks like kindergarten between the celebs.

“Like no time has handed. #HSM reunion in Paris 🇫🇷👌,” Drew Seeley, who offered 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 One other 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 College Musical, Descendants and Julie and the Phantoms, all of which he directed.

The HSM squad later thrilled conference attendees as they recalled reminiscences filming the Disney Channel hit on the mainstage. Seeley and the Princess Swap star, 33, even sang an acoustic rendition of Troy and Gabriella’s ballad “Breaking Free,” per social media footage.

Excessive College 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 be taught that Gabriella and her mother had simply relocated to his native Albuquerque, New Mexico, and enrolled her on the identical faculty 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 complete crew each acted and sang within 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 College Musical: The Live performance” tour.)

“Within the first film, after the whole lot 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 type of occurred that method. Sadly, it put me in an ungainly place. It’s not one thing I anticipated to be addressed. Then, Excessive College Musical blew up. I’m very lucky that Drew has gotten correct credit score and in addition 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 in a position to present his personal vocals in Excessive College Musical 2 and Excessive College Musical 3: Senior Yr, whereas Seeley by no means regretted his personal expertise.

“Any actor would have cherished that function, however Zac did an amazing job. He was the appropriate man for the job,” the songwriter stated in an August 2021 TikTok. “[I] did get to do the excursions. All people wins, a lot love.”