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Its formally calledHigh School Musical: the Musical.
Former Broadway performer Tim Federle, who wroteFerdinand, is executive-producing the series withPretty Little Liars Oliver Goldstick.
Each week, the show will include an original song as well as a song fromHigh School Musical.
Disney is currently casting the series, and has also released descriptions of the shows main characters.
RICKY A snarky sweetheart, a B-minus student, and our star.
Rickys been dating fellow junior Nini for a year.
Rickys class-clowning covers a deep fear that hes not actually great at anything, except coasting by on charm.
Constantly attempting get-rich-quick schemes with best friend and fellow skater Big Red.
Stays up too late bingeing GoPro stunt videos on YouTube.
Voted Most likely to sleep through his alarm.
NINI The other star.
Unfortunately, Nini also found a new boyfriend at camp.
Fiercely loyal to her two moms, shes stronger than she first appears: an iron butterfly.
Voted Most likely to have a HAMILTON lyric as her senior quote.
Ninis new love interest, the jot down of ambitious entrepre-nerd who brings homemade props to auditions.
if you get something he wants like a starring role, opposite his girl Nini.
The son of two high-powered corporate attorneys, E.J.
is supremely confident but secretly prone to anxiety attacks when anything goes off-plan.
A future producer more than an actor, E.J.
calls the Steve Jobs biography his bible and keeps a copy on his nightstand.
Voted Most likely to report another student for cheating on a test.
ASHLYN Brash and gutsy, Ashlyns mouthy attitude covers new kid self-doubt.
A slightly woo-woo horoscope reader, shes finding her place in the school hierarchy.
(It helps that her cousin E.J.
is a senior.)
Worships Sara Bareilles and is an aspiring songwriter on the sly.
Cant wait till shes old enough to vote, and shell march and protest in the meantime.
Whether shes cast in the musical or not, shes got her eye on student council.
Voted Most likely to read your palm.
BIG RED Rickys lifelong wingman.
Big Red is weirdly devastated by Ricky and Ninis breakup his surest role is as their wisecracking third wheel.
He joins the backstage crew to be Nini-adjacent.
Wants to start a garage band, but keeps forgetting to learn an instrument.
Hes addicted to true crime podcasts and THE WALKING DEAD, and yet hes afraid of the dark.
Voted Most likely to believe aliens are real, bruh.
GINA Dont call her an understudy, call her a wonderstudy.
Gina is an entitled princess, but her ambition pales in comparison with her stage mothers.
Gina worries that she peaked in 6th grade, when she starred in a Canadian tour of ANNIE.
Posts Instagram videos of her singing that go viral and makes Nini seriously start to doubt her own talent.
Voted Most likely to push you down a flight of stairs.
VIKRAM Captain of the color guard and the student choreographer of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.
All of this, even though Vikram still sleeps with a stuffed elephant, and is terrified of failure.
His most-used app is Starbucks.
Voted Most likely to stage a flash mob on a field trip.
MISS JENN The schools new drama teacher, Miss Jenn is high-energy and low-reality.
She truly believes musicals can save lives.
If only she believed in telling the truth on her resume.
Suffers serious imposter syndrome and would ultimately do anything for these kids.
Her most-used (and most-loathed) app is Tinder.
Honestly, like cast Vanessa Hudgens as Miss Jenn.
