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I'm going to be home late today, Mom.

Why? Is it the Chemistry Club's Clean Your Beaker Day?

No. It happens to be Buff Your Bunsen Burner Day.

But I'm going to be late because I'm going out for a school play.

Oh, that's great, honey, but you don't go out for the theater. You audition.

Go out, audition. What difference does it make?

No one ever picks them anyways.

I think he's got a great shot. Acting runs in the family.

I mean, did I ever tell you that one time I got ten curtain calls? Yeah,

yeah. Oh,

you're doing a play in school? Which one?

Well, I hope Agamemnon by Aeschylus. Oh. You know, I prepared an audition

monologue in the original Greek.

You mean the original geek?

Is it the scene where Aegisthus and Clytemnestra plot against Agamemnon as

returns from Troy?

Duh. That's like the best scene.

The best scene. I know.

Guys, guess what?

I just found out what our school play is going to be.

High School Musical.

Well, it's no Agamemnon, but it's bouncy.

A lot of people tell me I look just like the girl who plays her.

Really?

I don't see it.

Well, she has people who help her look better.

So, who are you auditioning for?

Troy, which in Agamemnon is the city ruled by King Priam, besieged for ten

by the Greeks.

But in this play, it's a cool dude with great hair.

I never got a lead role when I went to Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow.

Every single Christmas, I...

wise man who brought myrrh. What is myrrh, anyway? I don't even know, okay?

But the point is, I want to get a part where I don't have to wear a beard.

Zack, what are you doing here?

I thought you didn't like theater.

Well, you see, I bet Bob my golf ball could break a blackboard. And?

I won!

So for my detention, I either had to work backstage or clean toilets.

I flipped a coin.

What are you trying out for?

Hello?

Sharpay? People say I look just like her.

Really? I don't see it.

I'm here.

Hold the applause.

Hi, Tony.

It's Antonio.

I changed it after my triumphant turn as King Lear at Peter's Puppeteria.

Bet you had to pull some strings to get that part.

Funny, right?

Next.

I'd do a song by Gilbert and Sullivan.

Do you know any songs from this century?

Or the previous one?

No.

Then sing.

When I was a lad, I served a term as office boy to an attorney's firm. I

the window.

Ambition. Stop, stop, stop.

Do the rap and throw it yourself.

That's good. I've heard enough.

That was really great.

And everyone says I look exactly like Sharpay. Really? Yeah.

I don't see it.

I'm here.

Prepare to be dazzled.

Excuse me, but I work alone.

verses. Are they different?

In verse three, there's an extra really in it.

Well, that's really, really great.

Oh, that's me.

Hit it, Louie.

I've got teeth between my teeth.

It would be fun if I had fun.

This is from my unproduced musical.

Floss. Is it? I found it on the internet and thought it was genius.

Finally, someone sees it. Sing, boy, sing!

Better take it up.

I'm out of luck.

I'm at a loss without my...

the part of Sharpay.

Oh, look, Maddie, you're a great singer, but you're just too nice to play the

role of Sharpay. I mean, she's got to be really mean.

I can be mean.

Sometimes, when I give sandwiches to the poor, I don't cut off the crust.

You are motorcycle gang material.

the beginning of the song.

Amateur.

Mr. Blaine! Antonio called me a bad word!

I'm sure he did, sweetheart.

And music!

I believe in dreaming, shooting for the stars!

Baby, sipping number one, you've got to raise the bar.

going to find the instructions.

Great. Great job, London. But to be even greater, you may want to consider

singing lessons.

Well, if you think they'd help... And dancing lessons.

How could she have gotten this part over me?

Don't you read Teen Theater Magazine?

London's father's financing a Broadway run of Mr. Blaine's play, Flaw.

This is so unfair.

I can't believe that London gets everything just because she's rich.

Oh, Mr. Blaine!

My dressing room mirror is broken.

It doesn't...

stand in London's dressing room and tell her how beautiful she is.

That's it.

Okay, no more Miss Nice Gal.

I'm going to tell London the truth no matter how much it hurts her.

I love the theater when it gets catty.

Maddie, did you see? I'm great.

Great? The only reason why you got that part was because your daddy bought it

for you.

I can't believe it.

Yeah, well, it's the truth.

Thank you.

Oh,

can you show me how to do that?

Guys, I've told you no playing basketball inside.

I'm not. I'm rehearsing.

Okay, no rehearsing basketball inside.

Mom, I'm a method actor.

And since I'm playing a jock, I've decided to live the role 24 -7. And even

isn't going to be enough time.

Not true.

I think I'm getting athlete's foot.

Well, so far, that's the only athletic thing about you.

I've been practicing, and I'm starting to look like a real b -baller.

Ice cream, ice cream, cherries on top.

How many girlfriends do I got?

Well, if you keep that...

with my singing. Oh, I'd be happy to help. Thanks.

Do you know any good singers?

London, I happen to be a professional singer.

I sing in the lounge every night.

I thought that was karaoke and you hugged the mic.

Now, learning how to sing a song is easy if you can handle a scale. No problem.

You just step on it and subtract...

No, not that kind of scale. A musical scale. Here, sing this.

Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do.

How am I supposed to remember all that?

Well, you could try thinking of things that remind you of each note.

Do.

That's easy. Do means money.

Okay, well, let's keep going.

was making that drowned out your wonderful singing.

Nice save.

London, shall we get this dance lesson started? I want you to get your money's

worth. How much is she paying you? Three diamonds an hour.

I'm only getting two. I got robbed.

Hey, are we going to dance or what?

Yes, yes. Now, London, a good dancer dances from his soul.

Like this.

Step, step, kick, and shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy. One, two, boogie, and

shorty door.

You're a natural.

Your dancing shoe?

Mm -hmm.

Okay, people, it's opening night. We have to practice all of our numbers. Oh,

let's start with number eight. It looks hard, but you just draw a snowman.

I meant musical numbers.

Places!

Lower the gym set.

wait for Captain Schnook. Let's do Bop to the Top.

Just relax and breathe, okay?

I will not risk my professional reputation performing with that amateur.

I have talent scouts coming to see me, and London is bopping me right to the

bottom.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

You have talent scouts coming?

Yes. Okay, I think Antonio's right.

As captain of this team, I think we should bench London.

Yeah, definitely.

So we all agree that London thinks like a dead fish on a city bus.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Absolutely not. There is no way that I am taking

London out of this production.

Not if I want to see floss on Broadway.

But if I'm as rotten as everyone says... Oh, you are.

What you do should be classified as a capital crime in all 50 states and

Rico.

I don't want to embarrass myself in front of Daddy.

Um, Daddy?

Yeah, he's coming to the show tonight.

Daddy's coming.

Does he be good?

That's a good question.

I got it.

We'll do Singing in the Rain.

We have to learn a whole new musical? I barely know this one.

We'll do what they did in the movie Singing in the Rain. You'll lip sync

Maddie is behind the curtain doing the actual singing.

That's a brilliant idea.

What's so brilliant about it?

I do all the work and you get all the credit?

Yeah, that's the brilliant part.

of this park, but Daddy has never been to a single one of my school

performances. In kindergarten, when I played a raindrop in the Itsy Bitsy

Spider, I looked down into the audience where all the other raindrops Daddy's

were, and he wasn't there.

He sent the butler instead, and not even the good one.

You had a bad butler? Everyone does. Ask around.

Come on, Maddie. Pretty please with caviar on top?

Okay, okay, fine.

But I'm not just doing it for you.

I'm doing it for all my fellow actors who never caught a break in this top

Turvy World Week called show... Save your voice. I want to sound good.

It's going just like I wrote it. Perfect. Hey, good job, Cody.

You know, you even kind of look like Zac Efron.

We had a rehearsal pianist do an arrangement.

Mr.

Tipton, when you see London's dancing, it may look a bit rough and unrehearsed.

Well, that's just the style these days.

Bad singing, that's also the style.

I'm so proud of you.

Now, tell me, does your father look happy?

Yep. I got a thumbs up from Daddy and his bodyguard. Oh, joy, it's working.

You know, Maddie is doing all the work.

Nuh -uh.

Moving your lips is work.

No, Maddie, you've got to be... Zip it, mister.

Not another word or I'm putting you on that pirate ship.

Okay, Maddie.

Are we ready to bop to the top? Because remember, we're all in this together.

Okay, you're pushing it to the limit.

So.

Mucho gusto.

Que fabulosa.

Ay, ay, ay.

Quiero bailar.

Quiero puke.

I believe in three men shooting for the stars.

Baby, to be number one, you've got to raise the bar.

Cody, help me show everyone it's Maddie singing.

The riding on my best.

Maddie singing, take the climb. Don't do that one!

Oh! The worst part tells off every day.

Get up! The show must go on! Not with me!

But we can't do this number without you!

Yes, we can.

Taliente!

I don't want to embarrass myself in front of Daddy.

They're very good. They love it. They're supposed to love me.

to the hustle.

I told you you couldn't do it.

Now, Maddie, you really are nice.

No wonder you didn't get the role of Sharpay.

Way to go, Maddie.

Five, six, seven, eight.

I'd like to see. Let's try it again, okay? Ready?

Five, six, seven, eight.

That's big enough.

I'm out of luck.

I'm out of luck.

Without my blood.

Now we're getting it. One more time. Here we go.

Five, six, seven, eight.