EnglishDisneyPlus - High School Musical : the musical : Christmas Special : Our review
By Mulder, 05 december 2020
High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special will be available on the streaming platform on Friday, December 11th. It will feature an excerpt from The Perfect Gift, a new song written and performed by Joshua Bassett, who plays Ricky in the series. Other surprises await fans in this special episode, including an excerpt from Something in the Air, the first major choreography of the new season of High School Musical: the .
Actors Joshua Bassett, Olivia Rodrigo, Matt Cornett, Sofia Wylie, Larry Saperstein, Julia Lester, Dara Reneé, Frankie Rodriguez, Joe Serafini, Mark St. Cyr and Kate Reinders will also share anecdotes related to their childhood memories - from the best to the most embarrassing - as well as gifts, favorite holiday traditions, family photos and good resolutions.
High School Musical: the musical: Special Christmas allows you to find the different protagonists of the series interpreting traditional Christmas carols and / or new songs through a selection of titles very appropriate at the end of the year:
- This Christmas (Hang All the Mistletoe) - Sofia Wylie
- The Perfect Gift - Joshua Bassett - also author composer
- Feliz Navidad - Frankie Rodriguez and Joe Serafini
- The Hanukkah Medley - Julia Lester
- Last Christmas - Matt Cornett
- White Christmas - Larry Saperstein
- Little Saint Nick - Joshua Bassett and Matt Cornett
- Believe - Dara Reneé
- What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Kate Reinders and Mark St. Cyr
- River - Olivia Rodrigo
- Something in the Air - the actors of the second season of High School Musical, the series
- That's Christmas to Me - Frankie Rodriguez, Kate Reinders, Julia Lester and Joe Serafini
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Dara Reneé
On November 23rd, we were able to discover this 45-minute show, allowing us to meet the cast of the Disney + High School Musical: The Musical series, interpreting many Christmas carols separately in different places but also as a group. Of course we would have really appreciated an approach in the sense of the excellent documentary film Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, that is to say, to really see his artists singing accompanied by musicians and not in playback, which takes away much of the magic of his beautiful songs.
It would also have been interesting to propose a real special episode on the Christmas theme like this clip (the most successful of this show) allowing to discover a song of season 2 on the Christmas theme. Remains a show that can be watched and that allows us to wait for the second season of this series that we appreciate even if we continue to prefer the films at the origin of this new series and the unforgettable presence of Vanessa Hudgens in the role of Gabriella Montez.
The soundtrack of High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special is available since Friday, November 20 on all streaming services. Currently available on all streaming services, the soundtrack of the first season of High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special has generated nearly 750 million audio and video downloads. The single, All I Want - written and performed by Olivia Rodrigo - has sold more than 500,000 copies in the United States, Norway, Sweden and Australia. It has sold over one million copies in Ireland and Canada.
Tim Federle (Golden Globe and Oscar nominee for Ferdinand), creator and producer of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and Ashley Edens (the show Dancing With the Stars) are executive producers of High School Musical: The Musical: Christmas Special.
(Source: press release)