Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody to this Park Hopper episode of Magical
Speaker 1: Rewind and we are pretty excited because we're all in
Speaker 1: this together. We know that we've known that now from
Speaker 1: the beginning. We know that doubly now because, of course
Speaker 1: we are here to cover the best sequel in the
Speaker 1: history of the world, My Date with the President's Daughter
Speaker 1: to Halle's Revenge. No, I'm kidding, that is not not
Speaker 1: what it is at all. We are here to talk
Speaker 1: to somebody who is part of the biggest franchise I
Speaker 1: mean arguably the biggest well the biggest movie anyway on
Speaker 1: the channel so far to date. Geez, I know, I
Speaker 1: mean just a Juggernaut Monster House. Of course, we are
Speaker 1: talking about High School Musical two, which we've already covered.
Speaker 1: It is twice the singing and dancing, so man, I
Speaker 1: was twice as happy because everybody knows how much I love.
Speaker 2: That bore my thing.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows they're my jam. That's just when people randomly
Speaker 1: break into song that there's no possible way they could
Speaker 1: know how to the lyrics of the dance I'm in.
Speaker 1: But yes, of course this is the one. This is
Speaker 1: the one. Though This and Cheetah Girls are really starting
Speaker 1: to change my mind. But then we got into zombies,
Speaker 1: and then of course I was wearing the zombie shirt
Speaker 1: and dressing as for it. We're all good, but there's
Speaker 1: no more ado to happen here because somebody pretty fabulous
Speaker 1: is joining us today, So can you please help us
Speaker 1: welcome cast member from one and two. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's in three. I have no idea because I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet. I don't know. I don't. Part
Speaker 1: of me wants to know, part of me doesn't want
Speaker 1: to know, So I have no idea. You know already,
Speaker 1: don't you, and you're not gonna tell me anything.
Speaker 2: I don't actually know. I knew she was in both
Speaker 2: of them, but I'm not quite sure about three because
Speaker 2: I don't I have never seen three.
Speaker 1: She's right, she's also like firmly in your wheelhouse of
Speaker 1: oh Man.
Speaker 2: She known so much for obviously her role in this,
Speaker 2: but what she's doing now. She is on TikTok on Instagram.
Speaker 2: I mean, this girl does not stop dancing. I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm here for it, and I cannot wait to do
Speaker 2: this interview. It's going to be such a good one.
Speaker 1: That is so much fun, So please everyone help us.
Speaker 1: Welcome Casey Strow. Hello, Hello, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us.
Speaker 3: Yes, no, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: We are just so excited to talk to you because
Speaker 1: we just recapped the phenomenon that is High School Musical two.
Speaker 1: No joke. I am a recent transfer to East High
Speaker 1: I had never seen it before.
Speaker 3: Oh, welcome to the families.
Speaker 1: So I know we're all in this together, but I
Speaker 1: had it took it took a while to get there
Speaker 1: for me. So just thank you for joining us to
Speaker 1: talk to us about how this juggernaut came to be.
Speaker 1: This is absolutely incredible. I think we just start with
Speaker 1: the basic how did you first hear about school Musical one?
Speaker 1: We'll get to two, but we got to start at
Speaker 1: the beginning, right, How did you hear about this? How
Speaker 1: did you get the role? What did you have to
Speaker 1: do to get the role? And your tree looks gorgeous?
Speaker 3: Just for the record, Oh, thank you, thank you. I
Speaker 3: know I love all holidays.
Speaker 4: I have a crazy obsession with decorating, so thank you
Speaker 4: for noticing.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: But yes, my story is really a crazy one and
Speaker 4: very very unique. I grew up in the dance world
Speaker 4: as a dancer from a really young age. I started
Speaker 4: dancing at like age two because my big sisters were
Speaker 4: at the dance studio all the time. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: grew up in the competitive dance world, hardcore, and then
Speaker 4: about like fourth grade, I tried out for Dorothy and
Speaker 4: the Wizard of Oz and that was the first time
Speaker 4: that I.
Speaker 3: Ever discovered that you could act, dancing and dance at
Speaker 3: the same time. And it was like my life's mission.
Speaker 3: So that's like where it started for me.
Speaker 4: And then I ran in I was like eighteen nineteen
Speaker 4: at the time, and I ran into an old choreographer,
Speaker 4: the wonderful Bonnie Story, who had done a piece at
Speaker 4: my dance studio, and she said, you know, I've been
Speaker 4: hired to do this little Disney project. It's untitled, but
Speaker 4: they did mention that they wanted, you know, people to
Speaker 4: audition of all shapes and sizes and colors and everything
Speaker 4: to be backup dancers.
Speaker 3: And that's so rare as you can imagine growing up,
Speaker 3: you know, a thicker girl, a plus sized girl in
Speaker 3: the dance industry.
Speaker 4: It was not always welcoming, you know, and even in
Speaker 4: theater it roles were very limited.
Speaker 3: And so at the time I was teaching dance.
Speaker 4: I was teaching dances like a few different studios around
Speaker 4: Salt Lake Valley, and.
Speaker 3: I just had a feeling.
Speaker 4: I was like what if, Like what if this could
Speaker 4: finally be the way that I that I break in.
Speaker 4: And I took my students to the audition to get
Speaker 4: them like a real true experience, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I mean, I think I I think I look young enough.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give it a shot. So I took
Speaker 4: my headshot and my resume and I walked in and
Speaker 4: I was one of five hundred there that.
Speaker 3: Day to audition just to be backup dancers. Just wow.
Speaker 2: So it was just like an open call that they
Speaker 2: had for anyone that wanted to come out, just an
Speaker 2: open call.
Speaker 4: I was literally the last group to go, and I
Speaker 4: had like this life changing moment. After I auditioned, Kenny
Speaker 4: Ortega stopped the music and he walked over to me
Speaker 4: and he grabbed my hand and he said, I love you.
Speaker 3: You're different, and I was it, like that was it.
Speaker 3: And then he was like do you sing?
Speaker 4: Do you act?
Speaker 5: Like yeah, yeah, I look at my resume here, I
Speaker 5: did all this local this local work in theater, you know,
Speaker 5: And he was like I have looked all over for
Speaker 5: our Martha.
Speaker 3: We We've audished in LA, We've audished in New York.
Speaker 4: And I just didn't feel like we founder and I
Speaker 4: think you were hiding here in little Utah. And so yeah,
Speaker 4: that is how I ended up auditioning for the part.
Speaker 4: And they brought me into casting. They they literally handed
Speaker 4: me script. I had like four minutes with.
Speaker 2: It, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: And then and then they put me on tape and
Speaker 3: so the original like pop and lock and jam and.
Speaker 4: Break was just me like ad libbat oh wow, Like
Speaker 4: I didn't know what movement they wanted.
Speaker 3: And then they handed me the song like a little
Speaker 3: CD player.
Speaker 4: I got to listen to it for like five minutes
Speaker 4: and they're like, all right, we're gonna record it and
Speaker 4: send it to Disney.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, wow, my life. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I was like a baptism by this.
Speaker 1: All in one day. You came into Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: So I did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, callback was at least, you know, I had some time.
Speaker 4: In fact, it was almost painful. I had too much time.
Speaker 4: It was like two weeks and I was like, why did.
Speaker 2: They calling back?
Speaker 4: I was like, why did I might have this like
Speaker 4: life altering moment of like, yeah, I'm different for a
Speaker 4: reason and it was all meant to be and then
Speaker 4: like cricket, cricket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome industry, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: So it's super painful.
Speaker 4: But then yeah, I ended up being the very last
Speaker 4: person cast because of it, and I was like three
Speaker 4: days everything was like locked and loaded and signed, and
Speaker 4: then I was on set after like after that.
Speaker 2: So this was the dream for you. I mean, this
Speaker 2: was something that you had on vision boards. You like,
Speaker 2: you thought about it, you talked about it with your friends,
Speaker 2: everyone at your studio, that kind of idea. You've seen
Speaker 2: it in movies, you know, go into that perfect audition
Speaker 2: and damn you like you lived in.
Speaker 4: Them.
Speaker 3: Was like grab a pillow and scream at a pillow moments. Man,
Speaker 3: I just know how.
Speaker 4: It would like happen for me living in Utah, and
Speaker 4: I'm very like family.
Speaker 3: Oriented, and I well, yeah, how am I gonna?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 4: Am I the person that's brave enough to pack up
Speaker 4: my crap and move to l A. I was always
Speaker 4: so scared of that.
Speaker 1: And then it was we'll come to you. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about it, We'll come to you.
Speaker 2: What's amazing is there's just a huge industry of dance
Speaker 2: out in Utah. There really was, and it was untapped, yes,
Speaker 2: for years, until I feel like it was like, so
Speaker 2: you think you could dance? And there just started becoming
Speaker 2: so many, so many amazing everything.
Speaker 1: Disney we noticed this shot in Utah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they had not really done a lot of
Speaker 2: dance stuff in Utah. Okay, high school musical, I mean
Speaker 2: between high school musical and like I said, so you
Speaker 2: think you can dance if you look at so many
Speaker 2: of the top people that end up even going from
Speaker 2: that to dancing with the stars and being the pro.
Speaker 4: Dancers, the Julianne Julianne, Derek Huff.
Speaker 2: Whitney, I mean, there's Jennie.
Speaker 1: You're saying all these names I've never heard.
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, okay with the Stars bros.
Speaker 4: But ye will, it's a whole nother world. It is
Speaker 4: entertainment business. And then there's the entertainment business of dancers
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: And it's just yeah, Utah really has put themselves on
Speaker 3: the map.
Speaker 4: Asing these dancing and performing machines. And I always love
Speaker 4: it when we surprise people and it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: Derek Huff can sing.
Speaker 3: Julianne can sing like Casey Stars, not just a dancer
Speaker 3: like I act and sing. And I think that's really
Speaker 3: really fun and was really unheard of.
Speaker 4: I feel like before that's like dancers just stay in
Speaker 4: the dance lane.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, not a lot of triple threats, not a
Speaker 2: lot of kind.
Speaker 1: Well, that's also I think a lot of that has
Speaker 1: to do with the entire industry changing too, thankfully, because
Speaker 1: even back in the day, it was if you're a
Speaker 1: television actor, you're a television actor.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: If you're in movies, you do movies. If you're a dancer,
Speaker 1: you do dancer yees? Commercial yeah yeah, commercial commercial. Now
Speaker 1: it's they nobody wants to hire nine different people to
Speaker 1: do one thing, so they go, how what can you do?
Speaker 1: Can you do work? Oh? You can do everything? Awesome,
Speaker 1: We're gonna do with that right.
Speaker 2: On the channel. Had you been a dcom fan before
Speaker 2: you auditioned for this, was this where you would like
Speaker 2: just a lover of that like Friday night d coom situation.
Speaker 4: So that's what's really funny for me is I wasn't
Speaker 4: because I literally like threw my.
Speaker 3: Full life into like acting and seeing and dancing. You guys.
Speaker 4: Every day after school, I went straight from school to
Speaker 4: like the studio or to acting.
Speaker 3: And I was there till like nine o'clock at night.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: And so I remember when it came out and I
Speaker 4: was like thrust into this Disney Channel world. I remember
Speaker 4: watching it for the first time and being like, oh wow,
Speaker 4: that's that's really wholesome and cheesy.
Speaker 3: I'm wonderful. I wonder if I'll ever work again.
Speaker 2: That's so true, that's funny.
Speaker 4: But but then it like was this beautiful world that
Speaker 4: was unlocked to me. And I went and I watched
Speaker 4: like Halloween Town and I watched like all these.
Speaker 3: Like classic you know, Disney Channel movies.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what, I was sleeping on all of that, right,
Speaker 4: and you had all this joy and she's in my life.
Speaker 1: What is when you're stuck in your the world? I'm
Speaker 1: starting to notice, especially the entertainment industry, it's all microworlds.
Speaker 1: So when you're stuck in your own microworld, whether it's
Speaker 1: dance or sitcom, whatever it is, you don't often see
Speaker 1: what's going on in some of the other little microworlds
Speaker 1: around you. And then when you jump ship into a
Speaker 1: new one, it's it just opens its own. We're doing
Speaker 1: that now with these dcoms where I'm like, look, a
Speaker 1: little kid can turn into a mermaid. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, it's brilliant.
Speaker 2: Wow. So when did you get a chance to be
Speaker 2: able to meet the rest of your cast then? Was
Speaker 2: it just at the rehearsals or were you Were you
Speaker 2: ever flown to la to do anything prior to the
Speaker 2: shooting of the film.
Speaker 4: I was not, No, nothing, nothing like that. And so
Speaker 4: it was like, literally i walk on set and I'm like,
Speaker 4: with all of these child actors who have been doing
Speaker 4: this since they came out of the womb, and I'm nineteen,
Speaker 4: and although I had had tons of experience, like with
Speaker 4: stage and theater and stuff like that, you know, when
Speaker 4: a camera's in your face, it's a whole different world. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and yeah, I'm nineteen and like Zachamanessa are like fifteen,
Speaker 4: and they're crushing it. I'm like, just follow everybody's lead,
Speaker 4: don't panic, don't be faking it to make it baby,
Speaker 4: that's what.
Speaker 2: What was the first scene that you filmed? Was it
Speaker 2: the cafeteria scene?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Was that the.
Speaker 1: Very big, huge dance numbers? The first thing you did
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Show kid, Yeah, exactly. That was like
Speaker 1: day one.
Speaker 4: So once again a lot of things for me that
Speaker 4: you know, the fans love and are so iconic. We're
Speaker 4: actually in the moment improv things and it was like
Speaker 4: come up with your own choreography on the table, Casey,
Speaker 4: like just throw it out.
Speaker 3: There, you know. Uh yeah, and then I'm like singing
Speaker 3: live and I'm miked.
Speaker 4: In front of all these in front of all these
Speaker 4: new people. So yeah, pressure was like really on, it
Speaker 4: was really hot.
Speaker 1: Well, you're singing, so you're actually singing live as you're
Speaker 1: doing all the dancing, You're you're you're not singing to
Speaker 1: a track. You're actually singing, you're not lip syncing.
Speaker 3: So we are.
Speaker 4: We were singing to a track, but Kenny also likes
Speaker 4: to just sing why you're.
Speaker 3: Doing it and live and everything, So yeah, I know
Speaker 3: it was it was really great.
Speaker 4: And that was supposed to be it for my character Martha,
Speaker 4: like it was just that was her moment, that was it,
Speaker 4: and then I'm gonna I'm gonna age myself right now.
Speaker 3: They sent in the dailies, they fed him, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: so they so.
Speaker 4: They send in the dailies and Disney was like, oh
Speaker 4: my goodness, we love her. We wish we would have
Speaker 4: booked her sooner, and that she was throughout the show more.
Speaker 4: And so after we wrapped on that scene, I got
Speaker 4: a phone call a little bit later and they were like, Hey,
Speaker 4: there's this dance that they.
Speaker 3: Do at the end called raw This Together.
Speaker 4: If I just send you Bonnie's story like doing it,
Speaker 4: can you learn the dance quick and show up tomorrow
Speaker 4: and we're gonna throw you in the finale.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, what.
Speaker 2: Take Yeah, tell her what time. I'll be an hour early. Guys,
Speaker 2: I'll be there.
Speaker 3: I will preport that man nice. So yeah, so and
Speaker 3: and Kenny was so kind to me.
Speaker 4: He always was very strategic with his placement and he
Speaker 4: always just loved.
Speaker 3: That I was a strong dancer. And he was like,
Speaker 3: I know, if I put her like right by Zach
Speaker 3: and Vanessa or like right by them, like she'll be
Speaker 3: fine right and I won't have to worry about her
Speaker 3: bess at the shop.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got so you so we I mean, we've
Speaker 2: we all love Kenny. He's just a legend. And obviously
Speaker 2: you being a dancer, and you had to have known
Speaker 2: about this icon prior to even seeing him at this
Speaker 2: at this audition, which I'm sure made it that much
Speaker 2: more nerve racking, But what was it like for you
Speaker 2: on set with him?
Speaker 4: So actually, that's a that's a story. That's a story,
Speaker 4: so Brita right there, that's his story in itself. So
Speaker 4: I get there. Nobody's told me it's Kenny Artega. Oh no,
Speaker 4: at that audition, I had no idea.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, no idea.
Speaker 3: So I am like trying to keep myself calm. I'm like,
Speaker 3: you got this.
Speaker 4: You've done ten bazillion dance auditions in your life.
Speaker 3: You're fine.
Speaker 4: And some little twerp looks over at me and is like,
Speaker 4: I can't believe we're gonna dance for the man who
Speaker 4: did Newsies, And I was like.
Speaker 2: My Christian Bale, where's Christian?
Speaker 3: My soul up my body, my soul up my body?
Speaker 3: And then she's like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and hocus Pocus and like everything, and I was like,
Speaker 4: are you freaking kidding me? These are the shows like
Speaker 4: I grew up on dreaming of reviving musicals and you
Speaker 4: just tell me that, and I've gotta walk in like
Speaker 4: right now to this guy.
Speaker 3: I was like, I could have gone a lifetime without
Speaker 3: knowing that in.
Speaker 2: Man, that person was trying to psych you out, casey right,
Speaker 2: just that little.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so then of course knowing that now after
Speaker 4: the audition to answer your question, Yeah, like walking in
Speaker 4: on set, like the stakes were so high for me,
Speaker 4: and it was just like all my hard work.
Speaker 3: Since I was two years old, and all these dreams,
Speaker 3: everything I had wanted so bad. It was like, here's
Speaker 3: your one shot girl.
Speaker 4: Like shine, you gotta shine. And I was just so grateful.
Speaker 4: I'm so blessed that Kenny loved it, Disney loved it,
Speaker 4: and then even more shockingly, after it came out, the.
Speaker 3: Fans loved my character. And that's really who got me back.
Speaker 3: That's who got me back in high school. Usical two
Speaker 3: and three.
Speaker 1: And so you are in three. I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1: I'm going in order. I haven't seen it. Okay, you
Speaker 1: are in three, aren't good? I said that to Sabrie.
Speaker 1: I'm like she had three. She's like, I'm not saying anything.
Speaker 4: I was like, okay, okay, you'll have to watch will,
Speaker 4: but I will tell you that get even better as
Speaker 4: they go.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw that with number two. I love it.
Speaker 2: I love that they are developing your stories as you go,
Speaker 2: which is one of the things I love about Kenny's
Speaker 2: work is he really goes into your character development and
Speaker 2: where you would in this in a second movie, where
Speaker 2: you would be now you know since time is passed.
Speaker 1: Well, it's part of it. They've really made a team.
Speaker 1: There's like part of a team now and there's six
Speaker 1: or seven members of the team. You're part of the team,
Speaker 1: and it's just that's what you see.
Speaker 2: See even a lot of the dancers. I mean, like
Speaker 2: obviously Chucky is his right hand man assistant choreographer, but
Speaker 2: like Chucky seemed like he seems like his own character.
Speaker 2: He never talks, but he's in it.
Speaker 1: Yes, who's which one's Chucky?
Speaker 3: Chucky was the other choreographer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's another choreographer that has worked with Kenny forever.
Speaker 2: He also worked on Chetah Girls too with us. He
Speaker 2: helps choreograph and place. But in high school musical, he's
Speaker 2: in it, and he's in gets you ahead in the game.
Speaker 2: He's in it all the big Okay, So if you
Speaker 2: saw a picture of Checky and we're trying to get Chucky,
Speaker 2: we want to do an interview with CHECKI.
Speaker 1: For sure, I'll get you Chucky gets Chucky, get us
Speaker 1: Chucky tonight.
Speaker 2: Yes, we want to do it, just because he's really
Speaker 2: essentially a huge part of the creative you know, team
Speaker 2: and the creative you know, momentum of the movie. But
Speaker 2: he's actually to me, I feel like Chuckie's his own character,
Speaker 2: just doesn't have a name or an he doesn't talk,
Speaker 2: but he's in every major It's amazing.
Speaker 3: It's so true.
Speaker 4: And it's amazing that the fans like fell in love
Speaker 4: with you, didn't like yeah, with Chucky, with like the
Speaker 4: principal dancers, they all have like these backstories of who
Speaker 4: they think those characters are.
Speaker 1: It's incredible.
Speaker 3: It is such a cool thing.
Speaker 1: Now I have a technical question. Now, yes, when you
Speaker 1: started the interview, so you were dancing since you were two,
Speaker 1: and then you said something about competitive dancing. Were you
Speaker 1: competitive dancing at that age?
Speaker 3: I did my first competition at age.
Speaker 1: Two two years ago. Okay, well that's I.
Speaker 3: Walked down a very special moment in a production.
Speaker 4: Number where I put my hands on my head and
Speaker 4: I shook my little tish.
Speaker 3: And okay, so the history I'm going to save raise
Speaker 3: the dancer.
Speaker 1: So how different since this was the first time you said,
Speaker 1: they put a camera in your face, and it's so different.
Speaker 1: How different is dancing in something like a competition or
Speaker 1: a studio or whatever, and then dancing with cameras in
Speaker 1: your face? I mean, are you doing the entire dance?
Speaker 1: Are you just doing sections of the dance so they
Speaker 1: can film it? I mean, how different is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a very very different process, and especially because
Speaker 3: as a performer live you're always taught to keep your
Speaker 3: eyes on the audience or connect with.
Speaker 4: The judges and things.
Speaker 3: Like that, and then you have a camera right in
Speaker 3: your face and don't look at it. Look at that camera.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty it's right here in front of your face
Speaker 1: with a giant X on it. Do not look at it.
Speaker 3: It's just gonna slide right across her face. But God forbid,
Speaker 3: don't look, oh man. So that's a big part of it.
Speaker 4: And then with Kenny, I think the reason why he
Speaker 4: is such a creative genius is he's very passionate and
Speaker 4: he's a perfectionist. So with every dance scene, it took
Speaker 4: ten million takes to get.
Speaker 3: The one that he loved.
Speaker 4: And yes, we would do it in chunks, but many
Speaker 4: times he wanted to get like the one shot, you know,
Speaker 4: or a long shot, And so we were doing those
Speaker 4: dances over and over. There was a lot of blood,
Speaker 4: sweat and tears, and let's just want.
Speaker 1: To say, how does your body hold up for something
Speaker 1: like this over and over and over again?
Speaker 2: Will will we saw? Well, you've got to remember too,
Speaker 2: you're like talking, I mean anywhere from like fourteen fifteen
Speaker 2: to twenty two probably are the dancers. They're in their prime.
Speaker 2: I mean they are so condish to do that over
Speaker 2: and over again. And let me tell you, Kenny Ortega
Speaker 2: walks on set, You're doing nothing but full out. You
Speaker 2: are going to the night every time that music starts
Speaker 2: and finishing.
Speaker 3: It speaking truth and she knows that you.
Speaker 2: Even think about marking a second of those eight counts.
Speaker 2: So it's and you're like, that's the dream. Like you've
Speaker 2: been wanting to do this in front of someone like
Speaker 2: Kenny Ortega forever and so you're just stoked. Your body's
Speaker 2: just like on complete adrenaline. Like, yeah, you're tired later,
Speaker 2: but in the moment you are.
Speaker 4: Yes, Like it's like if all you have for three months,
Speaker 4: you can die after, yes, exactly over dead after, but
Speaker 4: by you're going to push through for.
Speaker 2: This, be honest in this industry because that might be
Speaker 2: all you got.
Speaker 4: That's right, Yeah, you never you do, so do it right,
Speaker 4: geez Amen's sister Amen.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the first the first movie comes out. It's
Speaker 1: obviously nobody expected because we've talked to, you know, other
Speaker 1: people involvement project. Nobody expected. How could you what it
Speaker 1: was going to become? How does your life change from
Speaker 1: pre high school musical to post high school musical.
Speaker 3: It was pretty wild. It came out, and then I
Speaker 3: was still just like teaching dance in the basement of
Speaker 3: the mall and like all these different dance studios.
Speaker 4: And it was about a week later I received a
Speaker 4: call from Ashley Tisdale's manager, Bill Perlman, and he was like, Hey,
Speaker 4: I saw you on set and I watched you do
Speaker 4: your stick to the status quo, and I really think
Speaker 4: there's something special there. I think you're You're really unique.
Speaker 4: I don't have anyone like you that I represent, And
Speaker 4: it like, is this really your dream? And I'm like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, since I was like a baby, like this
Speaker 4: is my dream. And he's like, well, grab your parents
Speaker 4: obviously come out to Beverly Hills and meet me and.
Speaker 3: Like see if you you know, if this is a
Speaker 3: good fit. I mean I'm like, oh my gosh, like
Speaker 3: a manager. And it was truly one of the funniest
Speaker 3: stories of my life. Like my mom and my sister
Speaker 3: actually came with. We packed up our car. It was
Speaker 3: like the Clampets heading the Beverly Hills.
Speaker 4: We like, we spent all this money to get a
Speaker 4: really nice hotel because we're like, oh, we were never
Speaker 4: going to do this again, like what if this never
Speaker 4: happens again? And little did I know, I roll up
Speaker 4: to this hotel. I'm like in my county's like road trip,
Speaker 4: you know, and we're like, hey, where do we park.
Speaker 3: They're like it's.
Speaker 4: Valet, only we've stopped at like Walmart to get groceries
Speaker 4: to save money on the trip.
Speaker 3: They're carrying out like yeah, that so much. That's awesome.
Speaker 3: I mean that that is yeah, but it was such
Speaker 3: a cool experience. I met with.
Speaker 4: Bill and I'm literally in his living room, you know,
Speaker 4: talking about the logistics of this, and he gets a
Speaker 4: phone call from one of his other clients and he's like.
Speaker 3: You know why I have you on the phone. Do
Speaker 3: you remember that girl in high school musical who like
Speaker 3: got up on the table and she popped and locked
Speaker 3: and stuff. She's like, oh my gosh, I loved her.
Speaker 3: She was like one of my favorites. She's like, well,
Speaker 3: she's in my living room right now, and I think
Speaker 3: I'm going to represent her, Like do you have any
Speaker 3: interest in like looking at her, like with your agency
Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and she's like, yeah, tell her
Speaker 3: to come on down.
Speaker 4: And it was like, within like two days of being
Speaker 4: in La, like I had like a manager and an agent.
Speaker 1: This is after just walking into a dance audition where
Speaker 1: they said we're going to make the part bigger because
Speaker 1: so essentially you've just been killing the industry from the seconds.
Speaker 2: Silent Killer, A silent killer from Utah just.
Speaker 1: Come and slain a manager agent. Then I was at
Speaker 1: my agency and they just handed me a bucket full
Speaker 1: of cash. I know.
Speaker 2: It really was like he gave us a new car
Speaker 2: to drive home.
Speaker 1: It's so great.
Speaker 3: I wish, I wish, but isn't it wild? Like so
Speaker 3: then it's hard when people are like, oh, I want
Speaker 3: your advice on how to get do the industry. And
Speaker 3: I was like, well.
Speaker 1: Be and God smiled upon me.
Speaker 3: So like sorry, I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 4: So but then, like you know, you know, the industry.
Speaker 4: The hard knocks came after that, when I like shocked.
Speaker 3: Up and I moved down and everything.
Speaker 4: But I was really blessed and being part of the
Speaker 4: Disney family already, I was able, like to book a
Speaker 4: recurring role on the Sweet Life of Zack and Cody
Speaker 4: and get some more experience on said and things like.
Speaker 2: The buddy work with Ashley. That's all yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I was just very very blessed.
Speaker 4: But then like it was really funny when they called
Speaker 4: me back for High School Musical too, because then now
Speaker 4: I'm living in LA I've got Thereat Life of Zack
Speaker 4: and Cody, and I got totally robbed blind.
Speaker 3: I had no representation on the first film, like.
Speaker 4: I think I made like a couple grand you know,
Speaker 4: and then I'm like, oh, you'd like me.
Speaker 3: For High School Musical two?
Speaker 1: Would you please speak to my manager and my agent?
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Thank.
Speaker 3: You for making me. Did you're going to charge you
Speaker 3: a lot more?
Speaker 4: Now? Yeah?
Speaker 2: So this is the thing because back then, you guys
Speaker 2: didn't do a two movie deal, like you know, the
Speaker 2: The Descendants. I think zombies.
Speaker 1: Well, it's because no one knew what High School Musical
Speaker 1: was going to be. They would have signed these kids
Speaker 1: until twenty ninety two if they had known what it
Speaker 1: was going to be.
Speaker 2: The damn what an idea that they would end up
Speaker 2: doing a sequel. They just didn't know. But there was
Speaker 2: talks about it.
Speaker 1: Oh really before it even started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because again remember like the timeline goes Cheetah Girls
Speaker 2: one while we were doing Cheatah Girls too, was when
Speaker 2: the first one was premiering and they were already talking
Speaker 2: about a second one. Oh okay, isn't it wild to
Speaker 2: think now? Like Descendants Zombies, like they're when they're getting hired,
Speaker 2: they're doing without being known, two movie deals, and it's like,
Speaker 2: what do you think about?
Speaker 1: That's normal. I mean when I started Boy Mets World,
Speaker 1: I had to sign a seven year contract. So it
Speaker 1: was oh, of course, of course that's what we had
Speaker 1: to sign for seven years before we ever entered the
Speaker 1: final audition. You were signed and the contract is done
Speaker 1: before you can audition, and you had to sign essentially
Speaker 1: for the entire series, god willing. So these that's standards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it's six with an option for seven that's standard. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that's a total scom.
Speaker 2: Deal and you can't do it. You guys weren't able
Speaker 2: to renegotiate anything.
Speaker 1: No. I mean it's Hollywood, so you can renegotiate all
Speaker 1: the time. But they can always say we're gonna hold
Speaker 1: this to you. I hold you to this. But if
Speaker 1: the show takes off and does something, then hey, I
Speaker 1: want a little more. I want this, I want that.
Speaker 1: They're usually pretty cool with that, but you're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: You're You're you're signed. So I mean the idea when
Speaker 1: I hear two movies, I'm like, that's fourteen weeks or
Speaker 1: whatever shooting is. We signed for seven years?
Speaker 3: Will you were iron class?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You were stuck with those.
Speaker 2: They were like, do you give this the remainder of
Speaker 2: your childhood and into your twenties.
Speaker 1: Thank god I became best friends with the people on
Speaker 1: that show. Or that really would have sucked.
Speaker 3: Because it's like a total nightmare.
Speaker 1: Yes, your strat's what happens. You could be strapped to
Speaker 1: people for years you don't really like. Okay, so then
Speaker 1: High School Musical one comes out, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: They now call you to do High School Musical two.
Speaker 1: What are the differences between the productions that you noticed
Speaker 1: from the small movie that no one knew about to now, okay,
Speaker 1: we know what this is going to be. What was
Speaker 1: shooting the second one, like is in comparison to the first.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it was really fun because I feel
Speaker 4: like we knew, like budget was going up, so we
Speaker 4: could go.
Speaker 3: A little bit more all out with our production and
Speaker 3: we had longer rehearsal times and things like that, where
Speaker 3: they were able to pay us for that rehearsal time,
Speaker 3: where before I felt like it was like, let's just
Speaker 3: do some rehearsals and wing this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: God, So it was really nice.
Speaker 4: We were able to be a lot more prepared and
Speaker 4: costumes were more you know, thought out, and of course,
Speaker 4: like Sabrina said, with Kenny involved, like the arc in
Speaker 4: our characters, it is so fun. And when I look
Speaker 4: at the arc from the first to the third, it
Speaker 4: was almost like Kenny like knew what my message to
Speaker 4: the world, what I wanted to give to the world,
Speaker 4: and he was so kind and he like wove it
Speaker 4: in too, like Martha's story. So that was a big
Speaker 4: part for me too, where it's like I had like
Speaker 4: a few lines in the first one, and then the
Speaker 4: second I was like one.
Speaker 3: Of the team.
Speaker 4: I was one of the crew. I was talking about
Speaker 4: you know, summer jobs and.
Speaker 3: Things like that. So very very big difference for me,
Speaker 3: and I feel like High School Musical two was the
Speaker 3: closest that I've ever been like with the cast, I
Speaker 3: feel like that's when we really.
Speaker 2: Like to ask, how did you guys stay in touch
Speaker 2: with each other?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Was there even group chats back then?
Speaker 1: Like it was it was everyone sitting in a room
Speaker 1: and chatting sidekicks?
Speaker 2: Did you guys all have sidekicks?
Speaker 4: Say you had the little messaging table reads?
Speaker 2: Okay, right, sorry, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: No, you are right.
Speaker 3: That actually brought back like flashbacks for me because I
Speaker 3: remember like Ashley and Vanessa having sidekicks sidekicks and being like, whoa,
Speaker 3: those are the coolest things I have ever seen in
Speaker 3: my life. I don't even know where you get one
Speaker 3: of those.
Speaker 2: But tea mobile.
Speaker 3: Team mobile baby. I feel an ad coming on.
Speaker 1: So, I mean Zach and Vanessa at this point too,
Speaker 1: were kind of like the the giants. Yeah, not only that,
Speaker 1: but the tabloids were kind of home after them a
Speaker 1: little bit. And I mean this was been a whole
Speaker 1: different kind of set than the first one.
Speaker 4: Right, Oh, yes, we had we had a love affair
Speaker 4: going on, and.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we'd have some arguments and it was just normal drama,
Speaker 3: you know. But it was like watching the soap opera.
Speaker 3: It was really great.
Speaker 1: No, they were.
Speaker 4: They were very sweet and good and very professional. But yeah,
Speaker 4: everything was just so different, and relationships had formed, and
Speaker 4: there were crushes and dating and all sorts of things,
Speaker 4: and lots of different people and dancers mixing with main
Speaker 4: cast y'all. It was it was gonna it was everyone
Speaker 4: was everybody an.
Speaker 1: Adult by this point, everybody over eighteen is No one's
Speaker 1: doing school or any of that kind of Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: they still under age, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And like you said, and the first one they were
Speaker 2: like what fifteen ish? Yeah, and your guys just turn around,
Speaker 2: especially with like Hollywood standards that to the second movie?
Speaker 2: How quick was that? Wasn't there not a very big
Speaker 2: time gap between finish?
Speaker 4: There wasn't, And yeah it was I can't remember exact years.
Speaker 4: It's all a blurk I but but yeah, no, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Like a very long two year situation in between. No,
Speaker 2: because they look I mean, the only thing that looks
Speaker 2: different to me is Vanessa's hair is shorter. Other than that,
Speaker 2: she looks exactly the same.
Speaker 1: Teenagers. You've got to shoot as fast because you guys, know,
Speaker 1: you can't shoot five years later and say you're still
Speaker 1: in high school.
Speaker 2: There was definitely a bigger gap between High School Musical
Speaker 2: two and the third one, right, and that had a
Speaker 2: lot to do with them. A lot of it it
Speaker 2: was contracts, because I remember hearing being in the channel
Speaker 2: and going and there was so much controversy over new
Speaker 2: contracts for the third one. There was times where some
Speaker 2: of the cast members didn't want to do it. Really,
Speaker 2: they weren't sure right and they were yeah, like I'll
Speaker 2: only do it if it's this or that and whatever.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, and only if I get so many songs
Speaker 4: and only if I do this right.
Speaker 3: Like, there was like a lot of logistics.
Speaker 2: Going on, and rightfully so, because at that point, you
Speaker 2: guys were all giants. I mean, you guys were all huge.
Speaker 4: Yes, this was now a well oiled machine, and and
Speaker 4: the fans wanted us back, and Disney wanted us.
Speaker 3: Back, and so yeah, everyone was you know right in
Speaker 3: their moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the driver's seat. I mean, that's the way
Speaker 1: it is. And we've we've said this before. We could
Speaker 1: all say this, and I don't think this we're talking
Speaker 1: out of school at all. Working for Disney or the
Speaker 1: Channel or just Disney in general is a wonderful thing there, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's it is like a family. They do take care
Speaker 1: of you. You get to do some things you'd never
Speaker 1: get a chance to do. But they're very frugal. That's
Speaker 1: the way they're gonna pinch. They're gonna scream a cord
Speaker 1: or you know, pinch a quarter until the eagle screams
Speaker 1: as they say. They're just that's what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: That's what Disney has always been about. And it is
Speaker 1: a bit of smoke and mirrors because you're at Disneyland
Speaker 1: and Disney World and you don't have to wait in
Speaker 1: line and it's the coolest thing the world. And then
Speaker 1: they don't pay you for your movie.
Speaker 3: So yeah, exactly, part of the parade and your name's
Speaker 3: on the back of the car and you're waving to
Speaker 3: fans and all these things, and then yeah, will you
Speaker 3: said it perfectly.
Speaker 4: It's like I always was like, well, I've got the same,
Speaker 4: but not really the.
Speaker 1: Fourth Yeah, that's the which again it's as when you're
Speaker 1: a young actor, it's you. You are. You can be
Speaker 1: dazzled by the lights, which is not the worst thing
Speaker 1: in the world, because they are a ton of fun
Speaker 1: to work with.
Speaker 4: They are they are amazing, and they've started so many
Speaker 4: incredible careers and it's like, I will always forever be.
Speaker 3: Grateful, you know, to them, as I know we all
Speaker 3: we all are so. But yeah, it's definitely something that
Speaker 3: it's not everyone from the outside understands. So like, oh,
Speaker 3: I assume you live in a.
Speaker 4: Multimillion dollar mansion and I'm like, I bought a house
Speaker 4: that's fifteen hundred square feet in California.
Speaker 1: That's the way. When do you take your golden jet
Speaker 1: to your other home in Paris? Like Nope, nope, not
Speaker 1: how that works.
Speaker 2: I know you got all I guess one hundred percent
Speaker 2: of you guys that the cast wasn't like over eighteen,
Speaker 2: But we did hear about some of those real life
Speaker 2: pool parties and those one am dinners at Denny's, Like,
Speaker 2: can you tell me.
Speaker 3: A little bit of dinners?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: That like, oh the nostalgia for me?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so we really would like, oh, it was
Speaker 4: so great you guys not filming. That was so special
Speaker 4: because we would like, after you've been filming all day,
Speaker 4: we're exhausted, but we're hungry, and the only place in
Speaker 4: Saint George, Utah is Denny's.
Speaker 3: It's open, so we'd sneak off to Denny's.
Speaker 4: And you'd always have those people that were just like
Speaker 4: like mouth drop and like the whole cast of high
Speaker 4: school Musical Oason, like you have misteak and eggs please.
Speaker 1: Well, they're expecting they're not going to be able to
Speaker 1: finish their meal because you're all going to break into
Speaker 1: dances and push the plates off the table and come on,
Speaker 1: like no, wait, come on, don't do that.
Speaker 2: Don't do that.
Speaker 3: Man, isn't that where what we do everywhere we are?
Speaker 3: Don't exact? Wasn't that your high school?
Speaker 1: It was much more smoking cigarettes in the bathroom in
Speaker 1: mine than in high school musical, that's for ship.
Speaker 2: Was there any kind of like pressure, well, you guys,
Speaker 2: I mean it sounds like you guys it was just
Speaker 2: like kind of a long reunion for all of you
Speaker 2: to be able to be together and keep developing your friendships.
Speaker 2: But was there like a sense of pressure like high
Speaker 2: school musical was so mega on that second movie. Did
Speaker 2: it feel like I mean, the stakes are.
Speaker 4: High, absolutely, And I think we felt that the most,
Speaker 4: Like in rehearsals, Okay, we were like learning the dances
Speaker 4: and everything, and I remember like Zach wicking over at
Speaker 4: me at one point and he's.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, dear, these dances are a little harder.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I did notice that it did seem like the
Speaker 2: dances were a lot more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the dances were harder.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The songs were really beautiful.
Speaker 4: Now that I look back on them, I'm like, wow,
Speaker 4: these were like really good, like really emotional or like
Speaker 4: some really good bangers.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And but it was cool because not only did we
Speaker 4: have that time and like rehearsal to bond and just
Speaker 4: forget about that pressure, but then when we were filming
Speaker 4: in Saint George, Utah, we were in these like little casitas,
Speaker 4: and the main cast we were all attached so our
Speaker 4: doors like attached, oh cool to each other, and that
Speaker 4: was really cool. I feel like that helped take some
Speaker 4: of the pressure off. Is us really feeling like we
Speaker 4: were bonding? We were away at summer camps?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it comes around there, it is, We
Speaker 2: got it.
Speaker 1: That's what it is.
Speaker 3: That's what it is. You nailed it. That was the moment.
Speaker 1: Okay. So I'm going to put you on the spot
Speaker 1: for two questions that I'm not happy to ask him.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be happy to answer him, because I've
Speaker 1: got to We've got it, what you think? So, first
Speaker 1: of all, favorite High School Musical movie?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay, So, like I'm saying, High School Musical two was
Speaker 4: my favorite to film.
Speaker 1: Okay, but to watch back.
Speaker 4: My favorite is High School Musical three. Once again, I
Speaker 4: feel like we had those just the sky was the limit.
Speaker 4: The sky was the limit for us with all the
Speaker 4: with all the production value and all the costumes. And
Speaker 4: then for me, like I said, the arc of my
Speaker 4: character Martha, I went from the first film being shy
Speaker 4: and insecure and wanting to tell my secret, and then
Speaker 4: in the third film, Kenny had this genius idea to
Speaker 4: have Martha be head cheerleader and my wow, yeah, and
Speaker 4: so it was like this coming of ages, like I
Speaker 4: spoke my truth and now look at me, I'm like
Speaker 4: a natural born leader and I'm like confident and and
Speaker 4: it was like very much similar to my story and
Speaker 4: to what I wanted to leave Young Girls with that,
Speaker 4: you know, and I love that my body was never
Speaker 4: mentioned ever.
Speaker 3: I was never the brunt of a joke. I was
Speaker 3: never And that is what I.
Speaker 4: Want on television and film for our young girls. And
Speaker 4: it's so rare to find those roles, and so I
Speaker 4: love that, like Kenny did that. So the third just
Speaker 4: has like kind of a special place in my heart
Speaker 4: for that and for Martha and her message, but also
Speaker 4: just thank you guys.
Speaker 3: I can't wait for you to watch it. Well. I
Speaker 3: expect a text message after because I think you'll see
Speaker 3: what I'm.
Speaker 4: Talking about with like the numbers are so flashy, that
Speaker 4: costumes are so big, like we could just go all out.
Speaker 1: Okay, So there's first question. Second question, singing, dancing or acting.
Speaker 1: You're only allowed to do one for the rest of
Speaker 1: your life. What do you pick?
Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh, I would die. I would die.
Speaker 4: Gosh.
Speaker 3: That's really hard.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 4: I would probably have to say just because it's like
Speaker 4: born and bred into me, I'd have to say dance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it like it really was my therapy growing up.
Speaker 4: And I'm also like a choreographer, and that's a lot
Speaker 4: of how I like do my stort, like storytelling and
Speaker 4: things like that.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 4: So if I couldn't use like acting and skits and
Speaker 4: like social media, which I love now, then I.
Speaker 3: Would have to I'd have to pick dance.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: Dance is cool though, because like, you can act without
Speaker 2: having a smidge of dance, but you can't really dance
Speaker 2: without having a smidge of music and acting, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. I feel like dance is the best
Speaker 2: choice because you're still getting to do both aspects, just
Speaker 2: maybe not as predominant as you are moving your body.
Speaker 2: So I love that, and I do.
Speaker 4: I will say one of my favorite compliments I ever
Speaker 4: received from a judge at a dance competition because they
Speaker 4: were like, wow, you are one of the best storytellers
Speaker 4: I have ever seen, and she compared me to Debbie Reynolds.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, I can die a happy a
Speaker 3: happy girl. But it was because I was doing a
Speaker 3: tap dance and my tap shoe flew off. I lost a.
Speaker 4: Shoe and it literally landed on the judge's table.
Speaker 3: This is how God keeps me humble guys for days,
Speaker 3: for days, I swear. I don't know if it's Murphy's
Speaker 3: Well all with me, but I'm like every time I
Speaker 3: think I'm maybe getting cool I to get humbled, real
Speaker 3: bad happened, but yeah, and so I had to like
Speaker 3: play off this whole tap dance with one shoe and
Speaker 3: they were like, oh, you are such a phenomenal like storyteller.
Speaker 3: And then when the shoe came off, I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm watching Debbie Reynolds, like this is great.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, thank you so much for joining us here,
Speaker 1: and can we I mean, I don't want to say
Speaker 1: count on you, but can we hope that you'll come
Speaker 1: back after we watch the third one?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Okay, good, okay, good, okay.
Speaker 4: Good, all right, I will come back anytime. I love
Speaker 4: what you guys are doing, and I think this is
Speaker 4: the sweetest and most genius podcast, so I will be
Speaker 4: there with bells on my Yes.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go watch. Hopefully they're singing and dancing in
Speaker 1: the third one, and I'm in.
Speaker 2: You gotta tell everyone where to find you because your tiktoks,
Speaker 2: your ig like you are continuously dancing, creating the most
Speaker 2: fun content for people that not just love high school
Speaker 2: musical but love dance and entertainment in general. So please
Speaker 2: let them know where they can find you.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Sabrina that that means the world to me.
Speaker 4: I love creating, I love doing little skits.
Speaker 3: I love dancing. I love that I can do in
Speaker 3: my living room.
Speaker 2: I love that your husband gets involved in them too.
Speaker 2: That's really fun.
Speaker 4: Lesson Tart, you're getting nice and he's got two daughters
Speaker 4: to deal with.
Speaker 1: He is number.
Speaker 3: Less Ben Higginson.
Speaker 4: But yeah, everyone please follow me on Instagram. It's just
Speaker 4: Case Strow k A y C S t r O H.
Speaker 4: I know that's weird, but it's my nickname Case. And
Speaker 4: of course because I got on social media after high
Speaker 4: school musical, so.
Speaker 2: I have not in mind because of the same and
Speaker 2: they will not give it back. No, I know, Manytimes,
Speaker 2: I ask, I know.
Speaker 4: It's so it's Case Strow on Instagram and on TikTok
Speaker 4: and on YouTube, and I love. I love being able
Speaker 4: to connect with with fans and just spread a little
Speaker 4: sunshine in a dark wall.
Speaker 3: So I thank you.
Speaker 2: We got to get together and do one together because
Speaker 2: that's I want to see that.
Speaker 3: I want to, Yes, Sabrina, I am going to hold
Speaker 3: you to that. Well you're doing him.
Speaker 1: I don't social media.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have social media, but he loves dancing.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter to dance.
Speaker 1: I also want to point out you're wearing your cheeateadh
Speaker 1: girl top tonight. I noticed that.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, so glad you caught it.
Speaker 2: Will I feel like I wear my wild Cat like
Speaker 2: sweater that I would wear on the typical Monday at
Speaker 2: the Wildcat Gymnasium for a basketball game.
Speaker 4: I would be wearing this.
Speaker 3: I love that. Well girls, girl supporting girl everyone.
Speaker 4: I love it and I love you guys, so thank
Speaker 4: you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Cases so appreciate it, and we
Speaker 1: will see you for high school musical three sounds awesome.
Speaker 1: Seeya bye bye.
Speaker 2: So funny.
Speaker 1: Well, she's unpleasant to talk to. Yeah, right, she's like
Speaker 1: an interview of sweetest, nicest person every I know.
Speaker 2: And how I mean, what amazing humble beginnings and finding
Speaker 2: your way to such an a big project in the
Speaker 2: any anyone that is a dancer in the industry. What
Speaker 2: she experienced is the dream.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it sounds like it's perfect. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: you go into.
Speaker 2: A cattle call, she's saying, a cattle call where there's
Speaker 2: five hundred kids and you get pulled out to then
Speaker 2: not just read a little bit of line, but to
Speaker 2: eventually have like a character that gets developed over three movies.
Speaker 1: Yeah by Kenny Ortega.
Speaker 2: By Keny Early points you out, holds your hand and
Speaker 2: says you are special, you are different, and you were amazing,
Speaker 2: you were everything.
Speaker 1: And then managers calling you, managers and agents going like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: you should come to Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2: You're not begging, you're not taking you, just please give
Speaker 2: me five minutes to talk to you know. They're like,
Speaker 2: please let me represent you. And by the way, I'm
Speaker 2: going to find you an agent. Yeah. Right o. Guess
Speaker 2: what someone's calling me here you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hollywood Dream, Hollywood Dream, right dream.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Well, thank you for joining us on our
Speaker 1: little Hollywood dream right here, which is of course the
Speaker 1: magical rewind Pod. So yes, thank you so much, Casey
Speaker 1: Strow for for joining us here talking to us, telling
Speaker 1: us everything about the joy that is High School Musical.
Speaker 1: I now have to like maybe drink myself into, you know, blackout,
Speaker 1: because I don't want to remember anything she told about
Speaker 1: High School Musical three Like I already no, I don't
Speaker 1: want to know. I don't want to know. But it's great.
Speaker 1: That they finish her character story arc and all that
Speaker 1: kind of just totally cool. So and of course go
Speaker 1: for to follow her on all of her TikTok Instagrammy,
Speaker 1: she's the stuff I've kept hearing from everybody at iHeart, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, she's got the biggest following and she's
Speaker 1: a huge dancer and all that good kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So has she done Dancing with the Stars?
Speaker 2: No, she no, she has it.
Speaker 1: It's like perfect for her.
Speaker 2: She would do incredible on it. She would incredible, They
Speaker 2: would love her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she seems like she is just absolutely made for
Speaker 1: that show.
Speaker 2: We disser a bit because she is considered a dancer,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people on the show don't think
Speaker 2: dancers should go on Dancing with the Stars. But you
Speaker 2: didn't anyway, I know, but a lot of us that
Speaker 2: have dancing background. That is a big backlash when you
Speaker 2: go against somebody who is a tennis player or you know,
Speaker 2: has no no dance background, you do get a little
Speaker 2: bit of a backlash a lot actually from the fans
Speaker 2: of this show.
Speaker 1: Well, then she should be one of the dance one
Speaker 1: of the professional dancers. Yeah that man, Well, I have
Speaker 1: none of that dance dance quality. So thank you everybody
Speaker 1: once again for joining us on this Park Copper episode,
Speaker 1: and thank you Casey for joining us and letting us
Speaker 1: into the world that is East High. Wow so crazy.
Speaker 1: But join us next time when we're gonna be watching
Speaker 1: Go Figure.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think you're right, which I think.
Speaker 1: Is just somebody sitting there going hmm, But no, it's
Speaker 1: not actually that. I think it's a figure skating movie.
Speaker 1: If i'm I am assuming it is too. But again,
Speaker 1: I keep going back to thirteenth year. We thought it
Speaker 1: was about a bar mitzvah and it just wasn't. So
Speaker 1: thank you everybody, and we will see you next time. Bye.