myrtle beach high schools production of "Disney’s High School Musical!" April 29, 2009

Tickets
Tickets will be available for $5 beginning at 5:00 p.m. on April 29 and 30. Doors to the Music and Arts Center will open at 6:15 for each of the 7:00 performances. No advance tickets will be sold.

Sponsors and Advertisers for the Playbill
MBHS would like to offer area businesses the opportunity to advertise in the playbill or to make a donation in order to raise funding for the program. We are anticipating a big turnout as the popularity of High School Musical is undeniable.

Advertisements in the playbill are available as follows:
Whole page: $100 • Half page: $50 • Quarter page: $25 Advertising Form

If you are interested in making a donation, the following rates will apply. As an extra part of this big event, we would like to provide the approximately 1450 students at Myrtle Beach Primary and Elementary schools with vouchers for a free ticket.

Gold Palmetto Donor - $500 donation for 250 ticket vouchers
Green Palmetto Donor - $100 donation for 50 ticket vouchers
Palmetto Benefactor - $20 donation for 10 ticket vouchers

For additional information, contact:
Stanlee Morrison, Student Advisor for Advertising Sales and Donations
Lydia Stanley, Drama Department Director

Synopsis of the Play
Disney Channel's smash hit movie musical comes to life on your stage! While on their family vacations, high school jock and basketball star Troy and brainy Gabriella -- two teens who are worlds apart -- meet. During a fluke karaoke contest they discover their love for singing, and an interest in each other. After vacation, Troy discovers that Gabriella is the new girl at East High. Still a bit inspired by their holiday vacation performance, Troy and Gabriella both decide to audition for the school musical. Troy's best friend Chad and Gabriella's new friend Taylor discourage them from carrying out their plans. Troy comes to his senses and immerses himself back into basketball and the championship ("Get'cha Head in the Game").

Taylor does some online research and discovers Gabriella is a scholastic superstar and quickly recruits her for the science decathlon competition. Sharpay and Ryan - the ruling school play stars - are also gearing up for yet another starring role in the school musical, and they've made it very clear that everyone else better stay out of their way! Auditions begin and all the hopefuls try out for Ms. Darbus, the Drama Teacher. Sharpay is furious! How dare they break the “rules” of East High! The whole school agrees and all the school cliques—the brainiacs, the jocks, the cheerleaders, the skater dudes, the thespians--chime in during a lunch break (“Stick to the Status Quo”).

As everyone is busy practicing for callbacks, Sharpay is plotting her revenge, the basketball team wants their star player back, and the scholastic team wants their new brainiac to help them win the decathlon.

Will Troy and Gabriella lead the school to a new understanding of what it should mean to be yourself? Join them and Chad, Taylor, Zeke, Martha Cox, Ripper, Mongo and all the rest of the characters of Myrtle Beach. . . whoops . . . East High!

(Adapted from Music Theatre International.)