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 Film plot was originally slated to be "Haunted" and follow the plot of a Halloween movie. The first film in the "High School Musical" series to go `movie theater`
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# The soundtrack is fifty-one minutes long, making it the longest album of the film series. The original length for each of the first two soundtracks was thirty eight minutes.
Gabriella has a photo of her and Troy from the second movie on her nightstand (from their lunch at the golf field). Troy has a photo of Gabriella from the first movie on his.
Over 1,000 extras were used for the Graduation scene.
With $42 million, holds the record the best opening ever for a movie musical. The former record holder was Mamma Mia! (2008).
The outfit Troy wears in the final number of the school play is the same outfit he wears in the "What Time Is It" number in the second movie.
Sharpay`s ringtone is "Fabulous" from the second movie.
Gabriella`s ringtone is "You Are The Music In Me" from the second movie.
Unlike the first two movies, Sharpay`s locker has two doors instead of one.
This is the only movie in the film series in which Chad`s father appears.
It took 41 days to shoot this movie, which is longer than the first two films.
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# Stan Carrizosa, the winner of ABC`s summer reality show, "High School Musical: Get in the Picture" (2008), appears in a music video that is shown over the end credits of the theatrical release of the film. The show`s other 11 finalists were featured in the music video as well.
High School Musical 3 is not the first film series to start out on TV, then move to a theatrical release. A Christmas Story (1983) had a theatrical realse but it was a sequel to 3 TV movies: "The Phantom of the Open Hearth", A (1976), "The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters", A (1982), and "The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski", A (1983).
Almost all of the song scenes in the movie were cut short unlike in the soundtrack album. In the first two movies, almost all were complete songs like in the soundtrack albums.
In the "Now Or Never" scene, Chad jumps from a lying position when he was fouled. He also did that jump in the first movie, during "Stick To The Status Quo."
As in the first film, Troy looks at an invisible watch on his wrist. This time it is in the lunch hall before Chad invites Taylor to prom.
* SPOILER: The schools each character is going to, and their major: Troy: Berkeley, Theatre (basketball scholarship) Gabriella: Stanford, Law Chad: University Of Albuquerque, Undecided (basketball scholarship) Taylor: Yale, Political Science Sharpay: University of Albuquerque, Theatre Ryan: Juilliard, Choreography Kelsi: Juilliard, Music/Songwriting
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