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The Emmy Award-winning television film was one of the most successful DCOMs ever produced, with one sequel already confirmed, as well as a number-one soundtrack that is certified triple-platinum, making it one of the most commercially-successful records of the year.

 

The Story:

Troy and Gabriella, two complete strangers, both attend a New Year's Eve party. They are chosen to sing "Start of Something New," for karaoke, and have amazing chemistry. Afterwards, they introduce themselves and exchange numbers, promising to call each other. Troy loses track of Gabriella after they part ways but they meet again when Gabriella moves to Albuquerque, New Mexico due to her mother's work transfer. In a mysterious twist of fate, Troy and Gabriella now attend the same high school. Troy is also the star player of the school's basketball team; his father, Jack Bolton, is the coach.

During homeroom, Ms. Darbus, the theater teacher, announces the upcoming auditions for the winter musical. Troy sees Gabriella at the back and tries to call her on his cell phone but is caught, along with Gabriella, his best friend Chad, scholastic decathlon captain Taylor, and Ryan and Sharpay, who are involved in the drama club.

After homeroom, Troy and Gabriella see each other and start to chat. They see the sign-up sheet for the musical auditions. Sharpay finds them and assumes that Gabriella wants to sign up. She and Ryan look up Gabriella Montez in a web search engine and find that she is a whiz kid. They put the article about Gabriella's academic achievements into Taylor's locker. During detention, Taylor approaches Gabriella and invites her to join the school's scholastic decathlon team.

As a result of the detention, both Troy and Chad miss their basketball practice, much to the annoyance of Coach Bolton. During a confrontation between the coach and Ms. Darbus, it is made clear that neither of them has any real respect for the work that the other does. Troy eventually takes part in practice, but he can't seem to stop thinking about Gabriella, which is reflected by the whole team singing "Get'cha Head in the Game."

On the day of the auditions, Chad tells Troy that there is a basketball practice during free period. However, Troy chooses to go to the auditions instead. Gabriella meets Troy there. They both watch a series of bad auditions, followed by Sharpay and Ryan's rendition of "What I've Been Looking For." Gabriella decides to audition; Ms. Darbus says that it is too late and that the singles auditions were long over. Troy offers to sing with her, but Ms. Darbus rejects them.

After a confrontation with Sharpay, Kelsi, the composer of the musical, trips and drops her notes. Troy and Gabriella rush to help her, and she offers to let them hear how the song was supposed to sound. Troy and Gabriella start singing a slower version of "What I've Been Looking For." Ms. Darbus hears them from behind a wall and gives both Troy and Gabriella a callback. Sharpay sees the callback sheet and is furious. Chad and all the basketball players find out that Troy skipped basketball practice to sing and they all are shocked.

At lunch, everyone has learned that Troy is singing, and thus, people start confessing. In the cafeteria, most of the students break out into song, singing "Stick to the Status Quo." While Sharpay is having a stroll through the cafeteria, Gabriella slips in a puddle of milk and her lunch spills all over Sharpay's shirt. Sharpay tells Ms. Darbus that Gabriella did it on purpose and says Troy and Gabriella are trying to destroy the musical. Ms. Darbus informs Coach Bolton and ends up having yet another argument with him. Gabriella goes to her locker and finds a note inside from Troy asking her to meet him in his secret hideout.

Chad meets up with Taylor and decide that they need to devise a plan so that everything can go back to normal. The basketball team tricks Troy into saying that Gabriella isn't important while she watches them through a Wi-Fi link. Gabriella is hurt and sings "When There Was Me and You." When Troy sees Gabriella and starts talking to her like nothing happened, Gabriella tells him she does not want to do the musical anymore.

After seeing that Troy and Gabriella are no longer talking to each other and not feeling up to performing in a basketball championship and a decathlon meet, respectively, Chad and Taylor decide to tell them the truth. Chad, Zeke, and Jason find out about Troy's secret hideout and tell him what they did. Taylor and the scholastic decathlon team tell Gabriella that they knew they could get Chad to force Troy into saying things he did not mean, however, Gabriella is still angry and hurt because of what Troy said, saying nobody forced Troy to say anything She basically refuses to forgive Troy. That night, Troy goes to Gabriella's house and her mom opens the door. Troy asks if Gabriella is there, unaware that she was on the stairs telling her mom "no." Ms. Montez tells Troy that she is busy with homework. Troy goes to Gabriella's backyard and calls her, telling her that the guy she met on vacation is much more than the guy here. She turns on her light and Troy climbs onto her balcony. She is not aware of his presence until he said that he is going to sing and she should too because of what he brought her. He tells her to turn around and she sees him and opens the door. Troy starts singing the harmony of "Start of Something New." Gabriella then forgives him, and they start practicing the pairs audition.

In order to secure their places in the musical, Sharpay and Ryan persuade Ms. Darbus to change the callbacks time to coincide with the championship game and the scholastic decathlon so Troy and Gabriella cannot be there. When Kelsi finds out, she and the others are devastated, but the scholastics and the jocks work together to come up with a plan.

On the day itself, Taylor and Gabriella send a virus into the system to disrupt the basketball game, then boil a bad-smelling chemical to stall the decathlon. Troy and Gabriella then run to the theater.

Sharpay and Ryan finish performing Bop to the Top. But when Troy and Gabriella show up after Ms. Darbus has called their names twice, she tells them again that they are too late. People start streaming into the theater to support them and Ms. Darbus has no choice but to allow them to perform "Breaking Free." In the end, Ms. Darbus gives the parts to Troy and Gabriella. After winning both the scholastic decathlon and the basketball game, the entire school gathers in the gym to perform "We're All in This Together."

After everyone has left the gym, except for Zeke, Sharpay then enters the gym and tells Zeke that the cookies he made for her are genius and the best things she has ever tasted. She then asked Zeke if he could make more for her, Zeke answered that he can even make her a crème brûlée.