Mandatory Parent Meeting for Families
Parents of all casts members must attend the PARENT MEETING Tuesday, February 3rd at 6:30 p.m. where you will receive important information critical to the success of your cast member and show. A drawing for FREE show tickets when you sign up for a number of volunteer roles that evening! Failure to attend this meeting will result in an absence that will count against the three absences allowed per child during the entire rehearsal period.
Rehearsals
Rehearsals for leads and cast members new to EDMT will begin Monday, February 16th. Entire cast rehearsal will begin Tuesday, February 17th. Our regular rehearsal schedule will be Mondays (leads), Tuesdays (everyone) and Thursdays (everyone). It is extremely important that you download a calendar from the website and mark any schedule conflicts and present them with registration forms on audition day. Please do not register if your schedule has more than 3 conflicts on NON-mandatory dates. NO absences are allowed during mandatory rehearsals, tech week or performance dates.
Mandatory rehearsals begin Monday, April 6th and the show runs from April 17th -26th at the theater at Folsom High School.
Refund Policy
Registered cast members will receive a full refund of tuition, minus a $40.00 processing fee if they remove themselves from the cast prior to audition day or on audition day. The parent participation deposit will be refunded in full. Auditioned registrants will receive one half refund of tuition, minus a $40.00 processing fee, and their parent volunteer deposit, if they remove themselves after audition day but before the cast list is posted. The parent participation deposit will be refunded in full. NO refunds in tuition will be made once the cast list is posted on the EDMT website except in extenuating circumstances such as death in the family, or a medical injury, serious illness or surgery not known about prior to auditions. The parent participation deposit will be refunded in full. NO refunds of tuition or of parent volunteer deposits will be given to cast members removed from the cast by EDMT staff for behavioral reasons.
Note: Auditionees and their parents are aware that rehearsals are strenuous and require the cast member to have the ability to focus for 45-60 minutes at a time.
Show Overview
It's the last day of junior year, and the East High gang can't wait to get the summer started. Things have been smooth sailing for Troy and Gabriella since their star turn in Juliet and Romeo, but Sharpay vows to win Troy's heart this summer - by any means necessary. With all of the Wildcats desperate for cash, Troy gets a surprise phone call that work has arrived! At the Lava Springs Country Club, owned by the Evans family, Sharpay revels in her summer kingdom, surrounded by the club staff and her adoring "Sharpettes". The celebration is cut short when not only Troy, but the entire Wildcats gang, shows up for duty! Mr. Fulton, the assistant club manager, assigns them jobs, starting with cleaning up the kitchen. Enjoying a picnic lunch on the golf course, Troy confesses his fear of the future to Gabriella, who for once just wants to have some summer fun. Ryan and Sharpay spy on them and Sharpay tries to sabotage the couple's fun with sprinklers. In the dining room on her break, Kelsi plays a song she wrote for Troy and Gabriella and gets Troy and the Wildcats to promise to sing it in the talent show. Troy and Chad head off to caddy for Sharpay and Ryan on the golf course, where Sharpay dangles a "college scholarship" carrot in front of Troy (her dad is on the influential alumni committee). After the 18 holes, Fulton informs Troy that he's been promoted to junior golf pro, which comes with honorary membership status and an extreme makeover. During the commotion Sharpay coerces Troy to promise to sing with her. Later that night, as Ryan and Sharpay rehearse for the talent show and the Wildcats await their turn, we discover that Sharpay has secretly plotted to replace Ryan with... Troy! Emotions explode, numbers are pulled from the talent show, and Troy is left torn between two promises.
A few days later, Troy reluctantly rehearses Kelsi's revamped song with Sharpay and the Sharpettes. On the basketball court, Gabriella points out that in the midst of his new job and practices with the college basketball team, Troy has begun to neglect his friends. At the staff baseball game, the Wildcats are missing their team leader, but Gabriella has recruited a new ninth man - Ryan. The dubious Chad challenges "dancer boy" Ryan, who not only gets Chad to dance, but helps the Wildcats win the game. Now officially part of the team, Ryan teaches the gang a new number for the talent show. Sharpay, feeling her Star Dazzle Award under siege, directs Fulton to yank the "staff" from the talent show, and then basks in her victory. This is the last straw for Gabriella, who confronts Sharpay, quits her job, and breaks up with Troy. The confused and heartbroken Troy faces all the voices in his head. Backstage at the Midsummer Night's Talent Show, Troy decides to set things straight. He gets his old job back from Fulton, tells Sharpay that as an employee he can't sing with her, and apologizes to the Wildcats. Finally seeing the error of her ways, Sharpay arranges for Gabriella to come back and sing with Troy and gives the Star Dazzle Award to Ryan and the Wildcats.
Cast of Characters
Troy Bolton
Gabriella Montez
Ryan Evans
Sharpay Evans
Chad Danforth
Taylor McKessie
Kelsi Nielsen
Zeke Baylor
Jack Scott
Martha Cox
Mr. Fulton
Blossom, Violet, Peaches: the "Sharpettes"
Ensemble cast members will include additional Wildcats, Pool Boys, Makeover Artists, Lava Springs Members, and Talent Show Contestants
Musical Numbers:
Prologue/Countdown - Company
What Time Is It - Company
What Time Is It (Reprise) - Company
Fabulous - Sharpay, Sharpettes, Pool Boys, Ryan
Work This Out - Wildcats
You Are the Music in Me - Kelsi, Gabriella, Troy, Wildcats
Fabulous (Troy's Transformation) - Kelsi, Gabriella, Troy, Wildcats
Humuhumunukunukuapua'a - Company
Act One Finale - Company
You Are the Music in Me (Rock Version) - Sharpay, Sharpettes, Troy
I Don't Dance - Ryan, Chad, Wildcats
Everyday (Rehearsal) - Wildcats
Fabulous (Sharpay's Triumph) - Sharpay, Sharpettes
Gotta Go My Own Way - Gabriella, Troy
Bet On It - Troy, Company
Every Day - Ryan, Wildcats
All For One (Finale) - Company
High School Musical 2 Megamix - (Bows) Company
For any additional questions or information about "High School Musical 2", please contact Producer, Tanya Bonds at Bonds004@sbcglobal.net or call the EDMT office at (916) 941-SING (7464).