, 11, Mississauga, ON
What’s up, Wildcats? It’s time for a fabulous new movie, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR, which opens in theatres today!
The Canadian ‘PROM-iere’ happened this past Wednesday, October 22, at the Scotiabank Theatre in downtown Toronto and I was lucky enough to attend.
The event was AMAZING! The crowd was ‘wild’ and cheerleaders were ‘pumping up the party’. There was lots of excitement and plenty of media on hand to greet the stars. In fact, I had the chance to talk to Jacintha Wesselingh of CTV before the stars arrived. She was super nice and gave me some ‘red carpet’ interviewing tips that came in real handy later.
The celebrity attendees and the stars were fashionably late…but, it was all good…when they arrived, everything started happening at once. Stars and attendees were being interviewed and pictures were being snapped. Some of the celebrity attendees included:
•The Judges from SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA (Tre Armstrong, Luther Brown, Blake McGrath, Jean Marc Genereux)
•The Cast from THE LATEST BUZZ (Zoe Belkin, Demetrius Joyette, Justin Kelly, Vanessa Morgan, Munro Chambers)
•Benji Schwimmer, winner from SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Season 2
•Aaryn Doyle, who plays ‘Lola Scott’ in CAMP ROCK
•Argiris Karras, who plays ‘Riley Stavros’ in DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION
•Mike Lobel, who plays ‘Jay Hogart’ in DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION
Then…the CAST arrived…in a yellow school bus (cool eh! )…
Olesya Rulin and I
•Olesya Rulin, who has played ‘Kelsi Nielsen’ in all the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL movies to-date
•Matt Prokop, who plays ‘Jimmy Zara’ in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR
•Justin Martin, who plays ‘Donny Dion’ in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR
•Kenny Ortega, the director of all of the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL movies
When I had my chance to talk to the some of the stars, they were all wonderful and super nice. Here is what they had to say:
Director Kenny Ortega
If there is a High School Musical 4, will the main cast be returning?
Kenny Ortega: I think it’s time for a new and wonderful cast with some new faces and new energy.
Kelsi Nielsen (played by Olesya Rulin) plays the piano and she is great at it. Olesya, how long have you been playing the piano?
Olesya Rulin: Actually, other than the basics, I don’t know how to play the piano. In the movie, when I play the piano, the hands are not mine. The hands that you see playing in the movie belong to a wonderful pianist…I don’t play at all. I am actually a classically trained ballerina, but, I would love to be able to play piano as well.
What was the first thing you did when you got the part in High School Musical 3?
Justin Martin: Well, when I first auditioned they told me that I was too short. When I got a call personally from Kenny Ortega, the director, I thought it was a prank from one of my friends but it wasn’t – it really was Kenny telling me I got the part!
Now that the red carpet was finished…it was time for popcorn and the movie.
The movie focuses on Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) who can’t imagine the thought of leaving each other after they graduate from high school and head off to college. They go through the ups-and-downs of choosing their college while, at the same time, trying to handle the pressures surrounding senior prom and the year end musical production starring all of the seniors we love. They sing, they dance, they do it all. Yes, the movie is sometimes cheesy…but, hey, that’s the High School Musical we love!
The movie was ‘FABULOUS’ and my first red carpet was simply ‘AMAZING’!!!