High School Musical: The Concert

High School Musical: The Concert was a concert tour performed by members of the cast of the popular television film series, High School Musical, sponsored by AEG Live and presented by Buena Vista Concerts. The concert toured cities in the United States, Canada and Latin America. High School Musical: The Concert expanded the Disney Channel franchise that had previously produced a triple-platinum selling soundtrack and had planned a movie sequel. (Disney had recently scored a success with another concert based on a TV musical by The Cheetah Girls, who had a sold-out tour in 88 cities)

High School Musical: The Concert
Tour by Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman and Drew Seeley
Associated albumHigh School Musical
V
Headstrong
Another Side
Start dateNovember 29, 2006 (2006-11-29)
End dateMay 30, 2007 (2007-05-30)
Legs2
No. of shows42 in North America
10 in Latin America
52 total
Box officeUS$33.3 million

The films' original cast members Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman took part in the tour, except for Zac Efron, who had a previous engagement filming Hairspray and was replaced by Drew Seeley, who was Efron's singing voice in the first film.

The tour also served to promote the debut album of three members: V by Vanessa Hudgens, Headstrong by Ashley Tisdale and Another Side by Corbin Bleu.

Development
HSM cast during the show in Stockton

The concert, which featured songs from the film, also included cast members Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman. Zac Efron was the only original cast member absent from the tour due to his previous engagement to the filming of the 2007 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Hairspray. Instead, Drew Seeley, Efron's singing voice in the first film and co-writer of "Get'cha Head in the Game", joined the tour in Efron's place. Jordan Pruitt joined the tour as the opening act. Kenny Ortega, the film's director and choreographer, became the show's touring producer, creative director and director. On the night of the last concert, as seen on YouTube, the cast introduced him before singing the final chorus of "We're All in This Together". The concert typically ran two and a half hours (150 minutes) including the opening act and intermission.

Hudgens during the HSM concert in Stockton

The cast toured five countries in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico. Each of the singers had two microphones during the performances: a headset microphone with a nude-colored pad on the tip, and a handheld microphone. The live version of "Start of Something New" recorded at the Houston concert appeared in the Radio Disney Jams Vol. 9 CD. Erin Lareau designed the costumes for the concert tour. "Dance with Me" (from The Cheetah Girls 2, also directed by Kenny Ortega with choreography by Ortega and Charles Klapow) included an extended guitar solo which allowed Monique Coleman to feature in an extended tango number with both backup dancers Jared Murillo and Seeley. Murillo also choreographed "Dance with Me".

Telecasts and recordings
Tisdale and Grabeel performing "Bop to the Top" during the show in Rochester

On May 26, 2007, Disney Channel Latin America showed the concert made in Buenos Aires in Argentina. This performance aired none of Ashley Tisdale's songs, and Vanessa Hudgens only sang "Come Back To Me". On June 9, 2007, Canal 13 showed the concert performed in Santiago, Chile, airing all the solo performances. On June 10, 2007, the concert filmed in Mexico City, Mexico aired on Disney Channel Latin America.

The concert CD/DVD came from a performance in Houston, Texas on December 18, 2006 at the Toyota Center.[1] The album and video was released on June 26, 2007.[2][3] While the CD and DVD were recorded by Disney at the same show, the two feature slightly alternate edits. For example, when Lucas thanks the cast and crew at the end of "We're All in This Together", he says: "Houston, you have been awesome" and thanks the band on the CD version, while the DVD version skips straight into thanking the cast and dancers. He thanks Jordan Pruitt in real life, but on both the CD/DVD combo and the Extreme All-Access Pass DVD, he never does. The same incident occurred with Lucas introducing the cast at the beginning of the show. In real life, he addressed the fact that Efron couldn't make it on stage but on DVD and CD, he never does.

Opening acts

Set list
Jordan Pruitt opening setlist
  1. "Jump to the Rhythm"
  2. "Teenager"
  3. "Outside Looking In"
  4. "Miss Popularity"
  5. "We Are Family"
Main setlist
  1. "Introduction" (contains excerpts of "Start of Something New", "Stick to the Status Quo", and "We're All in This Together")
  2. "Start of Something New"
  3. "Stick to the Status Quo"
  4. "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
  5. "When There Was Me and You"
  6. "Headstrong" (Ashley Tisdale solo)
  7. "We'll Be Together" (Ashley Tisdale solo)
  8. "He Said She Said" (Ashley Tisdale solo)
  9. "Get'cha Head in the Game"
  10. "Dance With Me" (Drew Seeley solo)
  11. "Push it to the Limit" (Corbin Bleu solo)
  12. "Marchin'" (Corbin Bleu solo)
  13. "What I've Been Looking For" (Reprise)
  14. "What I've Been Looking For"
  15. "Let's Dance" (Vanessa Hudgens solo)
  16. "Say OK" (Vanessa Hudgens solo)
  17. "Come Back To Me" (Vanessa Hudgens solo)
  18. "Bop to the Top"
  19. "Breaking Free"
Encore
  1. "We're All in This Together"

Shows
List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Attendance Revenue
North America[4]
November 29, 2006 San Diego United States iPayOne Center 9,736 / 9,803 $525,518
December 1, 2006 San Jose HP Pavilion 12,408 / 13,103 $647,409
December 3, 2006 Glendale Jobing.com Arena 11,328 / 12,325 $604,891
December 5, 2006 Sacramento ARCO Arena 8,407 / 10,225 $448,163
December 6, 2006 Stockton Stockton Arena 7,711 / 9,054 $414,484
December 8, 2006 Bakersfield Rabobank Arena 7,428 / 7,829 $403,528
December 10, 2006 Portland Rose Garden Arena 7,880 / 13,195 $423,779
December 11, 2006 Seattle KeyArena 8,116 / 11,534 $432,505
December 16, 2006 Bossier City CenturyTel Center 6,149 / 9,007 $332,158
December 17, 2006 Dallas American Airlines Center 12,590 / 14,012 $657,699
December 18, 2006 Houston Toyota Center 12,416 / 12,811 $638,822
December 20, 2006 Tampa St. Pete Times Forum 13,091 / 14,190 $677,327
December 21, 2006 Orlando Amway Arena 10,802 / 11,516 $575,982
December 22, 2006 Columbia Colonial Center 9,149 / 12,096 $477,117
December 23, 2006 Charlotte Charlotte Bobcats Arena 10,937 / 11,101 $560,025
December 27, 2006 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 10,532 / 14,595 $545,802
December 28, 2006 Washington, D.C. Verizon Center 14,278 / 14,546 $731,209
December 29, 2006 Uniondale Nassau Coliseum 26,258 / 26,993 $1,444,431
December 30, 2006 Manchester Verizon Wireless Arena 8,956 / 9,283 $502,429
December 31, 2006 Uniondale Nassau Coliseum (Look above)
January 2, 2007 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 15,041 / 15,841 $701,317
January 3, 2007 Rochester United States Blue Cross Arena 10,507 / 10,863 $548,724
January 4, 2007 Hartford Hartford Civic Center 12,673 / 12,824 $663,195
January 6, 2007 Pittsburgh Mellon Arena 12,570 / 13,100 $616,083
January 7, 2007 Albany Times Union Center 12,028 / 12,301 $622,798
January 8, 2007 East Rutherford Continental Airlines Arena 15,660 / 15,723 $865,997
January 9, 2007 Worcester DCU Center 10,738 / 11,016 $569,467
January 11, 2007 Philadelphia Wachovia Spectrum 12,545 / 13,210 $653,193
January 12, 2007 Charlottesville John Paul Jones Arena 10,053 / 12,162 $527,621
January 13, 2007 Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena 11,445 / 11,633 $614,895
January 14, 2007 Cleveland Wolstein Center 10,350 / 10,569 $564,911
January 16, 2007 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 15,043 / 15,385 $775,157
January 17, 2007 Indianapolis Conseco Fieldhouse 11,590 / 13,159 $600,484
January 18, 2007 Columbus Schottenstein Center 13,286 / 13,649 $683,026
January 19, 2007 Rosemont Allstate Arena 13,442 / 13,442 $696,237
January 21, 2007 Milwaukee Bradley Center 13,997 / 14,499 $706,182
January 22, 2007 St. Louis Scottrade Center 15,206 / 15,487 $772,296
January 23, 2007 Kansas City Kemper Arena 13,768 / 14,039 $711,456
January 26, 2007 Anaheim Honda Center 12,019 / 12,367 $651,591
January 27, 2007 Fresno Selland Arena 6,776 / 7,414 $395,140
January 28, 2007 Las Vegas Thomas & Mack Center 12,374 / 12,374 $637,669
January 29, 2007 Los Angeles Staples Center 13,804 / 13,910 $717,482
Latin America[5]
May 15, 2007 Buenos Aires Argentina River Plate Stadium — —
May 16, 2007
May 18, 2007 Santiago Chile Estadio Nacional 16,570 / 25,000 $891,140
May 20, 2007 São Paulo Brazil Estádio do Morumbi 37,406 / 41,205 $2,186,358
May 22, 2007 Caracas Venezuela Estadio Universitario de Caracas 8,918 / 14,809 $507,376
May 24, 2007 Monterrey Mexico Auditorio Coca-Cola 16,192 / 18,396 $1,287,564
May 25, 2007
May 27, 2007 Mexico City Foro Sol 35,139 / 51,215 $1,981,077
May 29, 2007 Guadalajara Arena VFG 19,120 / 19,440 $1,081,651
May 30, 2007
Total 616,432 / 692,250 (89%) $33,273,365

Other media

Live album
High School Musical: The Concert
Live album by
High School Musical
ReleasedJune 26, 2007
RecordedDecember 18, 2006
Houston, Toyota Center
GenrePop
Length51:44
LabelWalt Disney
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Amazon link
CD (CD / DVD released on May 1, 2007)
  • Disc 1 [CD]
  1. "Start of Something New" – Drew & Vanessa ft. Ashley, Lucas, Corbin, & Monique
  2. "Stick to the Status Quo" – Ashley, Lucas, & Cast
  3. "I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" – Drew, Vanessa, Ashley, Lucas, Corbin, & Monique
  4. "When There Was Me And You" – Vanessa
  5. "Get'cha Head In The Game" – Drew & Corbin (with backup dancers)
  6. "What I've Been Looking For" – Drew & Vanessa
  7. "What I've Been Looking For (Encore)" – Ashley & Lucas
  8. "Bop To The Top" – Ashley & Lucas
  9. "Breaking Free" – Drew & Vanessa
  10. "We're All in This Together (Encore)" – Drew, Vanessa, Ashley, Lucas, Monique, Corbin, & Cast
Bonus tracks
No.TitleRecording artist(s)Length
11."Push It To The Limit"Corbin Bleu3:29
12."Say OK"Vanessa Hudgens3:32
13."Dance With Me"Drew Seeley3:58
14."We'll Be Together"Ashley Tisdale3:46
  • Disc 2 [DVD]
  1. Five performances of High School Musical hits ("Start of Something New", "Get'cha Head in the Game", "Bop To The Top", "Breaking Free", "We're All in This Together")
  2. Exclusive cast interviews (Concert Highlights DVD)
  3. Preview for High School Musical: The Concert Extreme Access Pass

Video album
  1. The Start Of Something New – Drew, Vanessa, Ashley, Lucas, Monique, & Corbin
  2. Stick To The Status Quo – Drew, Vanessa, Ashley, Lucas, & Cast
  3. I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You – Drew, Vanessa, Ashley, Lucas, Monique, & Corbin
  4. When There Was Me And You – Vanessa
  5. We'll Be Together – Ashley
  6. Get'cha Head in the Game – Drew & Corbin (with backup dancers)
  7. Push It To the Limit – Corbin Bleu
  8. Marchin' – Corbin
  9. What I've Been Looking For (Version A) – Drew & Vanessa
  10. What I've Been Looking For (Version B) – Ashley & Lucas
  11. Say OK – Vanessa
  12. Bop To The Top – Ashley & Lucas
  13. Breakin' Free – Drew & Vanessa
  14. We're All in This Together (Encore) – Drew, Vanessa, Ashley, Lucas, Monique, Corbin, & Cast

Bonus tracks

  1. Jordan Pruitt's show-opening act ("Jump to the Rhythm", "Teenager", "Outside Looking In", "Miss Popularity")
  2. High School Musical: On the Road
  3. U Direct ("Start of Something New", "Get'cha Head in the Game", "Bop To The Top", "Breaking Free", "We're All in This Together")
  4. High School Musical 2 trailer

Chart positions

See also

Notes

    References
    1. "Release of CD". Amazon. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
    2. Mixup Music Store Archived 2007-05-19 at the Wayback Machine
    3. High School Musical: The Concert – Extreme Access Pass (DVD)
    4. Box score:
    5. "Billboard Boxscore – Concert Grosses". Billboard. Vol. 119, no. 24. 16 June 2007. p. 14. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
    6. "Top 100 México - Los más vendidos 2007 > Peak" (PDF) (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
    7. "HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL - THE CONCERT - Charts" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
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