High School Musical Hits the Road
The kids of High School Musical are going on a field trip.
Stars of the mega popular Disney Channel movie have announced plans to hit the road for a 40-city concert tour, kicking off Nov. 30 in San Diego.
Most of the stars from the tween phenomenon will take part in the aptly-named High School Musical: The Concert tour, which will feature all the hit numbers from the TV movie musical.
Monique Coleman, who at least through the end of the day is a contestant on Dancing With the Stars, Lucas Grabel, Corbin Bleu, Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgens and Drew Seeley are all on board to hit the road this winter. Though much to the chagrin of 12-year-olds the nation over, Zac Efron will not be participating.
Which, for non-HSM fans, is a little like the American Idol tour taking place without Taylor Hicks. Or someone pre-teen girls might actually find attractive.
Efron will sit out the tour due to scheduling conflicts—the would-be star will be shooting the big screen remake of Hairspray during the gig dates.
Despite the enormous impact it has made, there's nothing too revolutionary about High School Musical.
It centers on an academic girl and basketball captain boy who meet at a karaoke contest and fall in seriously like with both singing and each other. Their plans to try out together for their own high school musical get thwarted by their respective cliques only to have it all come around in the end with some kicky musical numbers.
The movie was a breakout hit when it premiered on the Disney Channel in January of this year, and has aired more than 13 times since. The movie is perhaps surpassed in popularity only by its own soundtrack.
Disney quickly capitalized on the success of the TV movie by releasing the High School Musical Soundtrack, a CD that is already the top-selling album of the year and on track to finish out 2006 on top, beating out sales figures from other much higher-profile releases from heavy-hitters like Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and The Killers.
Bob Cavallo, the chairman of Buena Vista Music Group, which released the soundtrack, chalked up the appeal of the movie—and hopefully, concert tour.
"A full-scale musical, a burst-into-song musical, was made so that youngsters feel it was made for them," he said. "It was their subjects, their issues, their music. It was well made, a story with heart."
The tour hopes to follow in the path of The Cheetah Girls, another Disney concert based on a TV musical that has achieved phenomenal success. The Cheetah Girls are currently in the midst of a 60-city sold-out tour.
As for the High School Musical gang, they'll make stops in Seattle, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Anaheim, Chicago and Pittsburgh, before ending their run Jan. 28 in Las Vegas.
Tickets for the tour go on sale Nov. 4.
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