HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL's Bleu Chats with SFGate

"High School Musical" star Corbin Bleu will perform a post-show mini-concert after the live performance of High School Musical: The Ice Tour - playing songs from his new album, "Speed of Light," which will be released March 10th, 2009.

The Brooklyn-born Bleu, 19, has played Chad in all three "High School Musical" movies reports the SFGate.

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High School Musical: The Ice Tour: 7:30 p.m. Wed. and Fri., 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sat., 1 p.m. Sun. HP Pavilion, San Jose. Also March 4, 6, 7 and 8. Oracle Arena, Oakland. $16-$65. Tickets: (800) 745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. For more information visit, www.highschoolmusicaltheicetour.com.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year finds high school seniors Troy and Gabriella facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college. Joined by the rest of the Wildcats, they stage an elaborate spring musical reflecting their experiences, hopes and fears about their future. With incredible new music and exciting dance numbers designed to take maximum advantage of the big screen, this motion picture extravaganza delivers plenty of high-energy entertainment from East High's talented ensemble," states the article.

High School Musical premiered on Disney Channel on January 20, 2006, and became the highest rated original movie up until that time. It won the Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Children's Programming, and received two Emmy Awards (of its total 6 nominations), a DGA Award, an Imagen Award for Best Children's Program, and a Humanitas Prize nomination. The soundtrack received a Billboard Music Award for Soundtrack of the Year, and was nominated for an American Music Award in the Favorite Album (Pop/Rock) category. The film even earned an entry in the Guinness World Record Book as the first TV movie to deliver nine concurrent singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

High School Musical 2, the sequel to Disney's smash TV hit, premiered on the Disney Channel on August 17, 2007 and drew an estimated 17.2 million viewers on Friday night, making it the most-watched basic cable telecast ever and garnered the most tween viewership ever.

High School Musical 3 opened in theaters nation wide on October 24th, 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

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