Zac Efron In GOLD (2022) I Did My Part, I Protected It!

happy pride to kenny ortega

spilled

gender is stored in troy bolton

“But here’s the one thing about High School Musical, that a lot of people forget or don’t realize. It affected a lot of people, its resonance, culturally, was massive … and at the same time, it was in every sense of it, the luckiest break in the world. The wrong thing to do—and that’s what all these interviews now are trying to get me to say— is to turn on it, to like shit on it, call it crap. But that’s insane. There are hundreds of people who began doing one thing when they were younger, who go on to develop and refine and shape their vision, as they get older, and other concerns—like fame, or money, take a back seat to other ones.”

— Zac Efron, Flaunt Magazine | April 2013 

Milo Manheim (the modern Zefron btw if anyone cares)

my gender is troy bolton from high school musical

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i. can't.

Zac Efron in GOLD (2022) I did my part, I protected it!

you get assigned gay by kenny ortega. you then get assigned not gay by disney but they let you keep the fruity hats. you come back next year and get assigned gay by kenny ortega again, this time complete with a homoerotic dance sequence. you return again the following year and are assigned not gay by disney, this time accompanied by a heterosexual prom date. you return 15 years later and are finally assigned gay by disney because they now think it's profitable. you are ryan evans in high school musical.

High school musical 3: senior year || inspirations and visual references

We’re aspiring to do the big broadway musical numbers, big movie musical numbers, to do them like the great choreographers and directors: Gene Kelly, Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins and Michael Kidd - Kenny Ortega, director

He [Ortega] really wanted to reintroduce kids to everything about musical film and musical theatre. We all agreed that if we’re going to introduce kids to the song and the dance of the classic Hollywood and Broadway period, why not try to introduce them to a bit of the stagecraft of that time as well?“ - Mark Hofeling, production designer

Footlight parade (1933) dir. Busby Berkeley, Lloyd Bacon / chgph. Busby Berkeley Royal Wedding (1951) dir. Stanley Donen / chgph. Nick Castle Singin’ in the rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen / chgph. Gene Kelly West Side Story (1961) dir. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins / chgph. Jerome Robbins Seven brides for seven brothers (1964) dir. Stanley Donen / chgph. Michael Kidd Sweet Charity (1966) dir. and chgph. Bob Fosse Chicago (2002) dir. and chgph. Rob Marshall Grease (1978) dir. Randal Kleiser / chgph. Patricia Birch Material Girl (1985) dir. Mary Lambert / chgph. Kenny Ortega Saturday Night Fever (1977) dir. John Badham / chgph. Lester Wilson Gentlemen prefer blondes (1953) dir. Howard Hawks / chgph. Jack Cole

Zac Efron as Andy McGee // Firestarter (2022)