High School Musical 3: Senior Year

East High's Wildcats basketball team compete against their long-time rival, the West High Knights, in the final game of the season. At the half, East High is severely losing. However, Troy Bolton rallies his teammates and wins the game ("Now or Never"). During the team's celebratory party, Troy and Gabriella Montez discuss their unknown future and the short time they have left at East High. ("Right Here, Right Now") The next day, at school, Ms. Darbus notices the lack of students signing up for the musical and Sharpay Evans suggests a one-woman show. Kelsi Nielsen signs up everyone in homeroom, much to the class' dismay. Ms. Darbus announces that the show will be called "Senior Year", focusing on the future of the graduating seniors, and reveals that Sharpay, her brother Ryan, Kelsi and Troy have all been considered for a scholarship at Juilliard but only one will be chosen. Sharpay becomes desperate to win and, knowing that Kelsi will give the best songs to Troy and Gabriella, gets Ryan to try to persuade Kelsi to give them a song by predicting her and Ryan's future ("I Want It All"). Sharpay later befriends Tiara Gold, a British transfer student, and they begin working together. While on the rooftop, Troy asks Gabriella to prom and she teaches him how to dance ("Can I Have This Dance?"), while Taylor refuses Chad's pathetic attempt to ask her to the dance. She later relents when Chad asks again in front of the other students during lunch. The group rehearses for the musical with a scene about their prom night ("A Night to Remember"). The next day, Ryan and Kelsi rehearse ("Just Wanna Be With You"), which leads to Ryan asking Kelsi to prom, while Troy and Chad reminisce about their past in Riley's Auto Parts ("The Boys are Back"). Tiara learns Gabriella has been accepted into the Stanford Freshman's Honors Program and informs Sharpay, who, in turn, informs Troy and convinces him that he is the only thing keeping Gabriella from going. Troy convinces Gabriella to go and she leaves for college the next day ("Walk Away"). Troy and his father Jack argue about which college he will attend and Troy drives to East High conflicted until he finally screams in anger in the theater ("Scream"). Witnessing this, Ms. Darbus reveals that she sent in his application for Juilliard. Troy gets a call from Gabriella saying that although she loves him, she will not return for prom nor graduation. However, on the day of the prom, Troy visits Gabriella at Stanford and they have their own dance ("Can I Have This Dance? (Reprise)"). Meanwhile, Sharpay prepares for the musical at East High and Troy texts his teammate Jimmie "Rocket Man" Zara to be his understudy because he is going to be late for the show. Kelsi and Ryan start the show ("Senior Year Spring Musical"). As Troy and Gabriella's understudies, Jimmie performs with Sharpay and embarrasses her, although the audience applauds. Troy and Gabriella appear during the second half of the show and sing their duet together. Tiara betrays Sharpay, telling her she will take over the drama department in the next semester. Humiliated, Sharpay ultimately joins Tiara's performance and upstages her as payback. At the end of the musical, Ms. Darbus reveals that both Kelsi and Ryan have won the Juilliard scholarship and Troy reveals he has chosen to attend the University of California, Berkeley to be close to Gabriella, play basketball and perform in theater. Taylor reveals that she will be attending Yale University with honors to study political science and Sharpay and Chad reveal they will attend the University of Albuquerque for performing arts and basketball, respectively ("We're All In This Together (Graduation Mix)"). At the graduation ceremony, Troy gives the class speech after being selected by Ms. Darbus, and everyone celebrates ("High School Musical"). The six students walk toward the stage and take their final bows as the curtain closes.

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