High School Musical: Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are You Thirty-Something Women Who Love This Movie!
I’ve plotted all week long. How will I see “High School Musical 2”? Since moving down south we no longer get the Disney Channel. Should I go to our workout center and hope I’m the only one there so I can pick the channel and run on the treadmill for 2 hours? Do I call up my friend who lives 30 minutes away and brave my way through the tail end of rush hour traffic possibly disturbing her husband playing Wii or watching a game with his guy friends? Then what? Do I say, “Excuse me, I absolutely need to, have to, want to, got to watch “High School Musical 2” so could you go somewhere else? It’s about to begin.”
It all started in 2006. Disney channel put out a high school movie. I love high school movies. Whether it was “Pretty in Pink”, “Lucas”, “First Kiss”, “The Breakfast Club”, “Heathers”, “Mean Girls”, or the all time worst “Bad Girls from Valley High” that I caught on the CW one afternoon and couldn’t bring myself to turn the channel on the total B movie mess, I loved them all. It didn’t matter if it was good or bad, it was what it was and for some reason high school movies make me laugh. How could anyone not love “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” or “The Goonies”?
I had caught other Disney channel movies before and had enjoyed them whether it was when Tyra Banks played a real life Barbie in “Life-size” or AJ and Ally as rich girls in “Cow Belles”. But then a strange thing happened to me. I couldn’t stop watching “High School Musical”. I watched it while I ironed. I watched it while I folded clothes. I watched it while I sorted through the eight piles in my house of paper, bills, mail, and finished school work. I watched it while I made jewelry. I watched it with my kids who were 3 and 5 at the time. I loved it. I loved the dancing, the singing, and the pure fun that it was. I loved that Troy, the jock and star of the basketball team fell for the shy and bookwormish Gabriella. I loved that Ashley Tisdale played Sharpay with her flashy costumes and full of herself attitude, a character so opposite the one she plays on the “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”. I loved brainy Kelsi with her darling curly hair, glasses, and smart girl outfits grooving out on the piano for Troy and Gabriella. Finally, I loved the finale as they sang “We’re All in This Together”. I loved it so much it became my ring tone and as I perused Wal-Mart, Shopko, and other fine stores I almost bought key chains, book bags, folders, and pencils for me and my best friend who is also a “High School Musical” junkie and who also is in her thirties with small children.
Yes it is true! I am a thirty-something mom who loves “High School Musical” and I know there are others out there. I even found myself pondering what kind of mother I was as we exited Wal-Mart and my children got free light blue lanyards with “High School Musical 2” all access passes to promote the movie and I began to plot how to make them my own and mail them to my best friend who for sure would appreciate my gesture. We could wear them together, although in different states as we watched the second installment of our beloved movie. But, I didn’t swipe my children’s new prized possessions that were hanging delicately around their necks like “Swiper” on “Dora” surely would have done even though I know they had no clue the significance of the treasures they had just received.
So yesterday as I ran on the treadmill and watched behind the scenes footage with Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) I got all excited for the August 17 debut of “High School Musical 2” and thus began my plotting of how I would make a way to catch the new flick since I have no means of watching it in my home. I still have some hours left in my day. I’m sure I will make a way to view the much anticipated sequel and I’m sure that I will fall in love all over again.
© Copyright 2007 Blindigo Magazine | Article written by Niki Tschirgi
