Spoiler Warning: Plot of Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 Leaked; MARY POPPINS: From Stage To Page Book Forthcoming

http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2007/01/10/one-for-the-books-a-sneak-peek-at-disney-press-disney-editions-2007-releases.aspx

Link above shows you the cover art and details to the upcoming 2007 release of the book MARY POPPINS: FROM PAGE TO STAGE.

But even more interesting is the novelisation of the upcoming HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 film, with plot spoilers abound:

***SPOILERS***

Goodbye, classroom! Hello, summer! But for Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor, this vacation is no day at the beach; they're all working at a country club founded by none other than Ryan & Sharpay's grandfather! And with the club's annual Midsummer Night's Musical right around the corner, Sharpay's competitive instincts are sizzling. If she can manage to win the Star Dazzle award just one more time, the country club will name it after Sharpay, and it will be hers forever.

But this year, Sharpay faces some tough competition -- Gabriella! To have any hope of coming out on top, Sharpay knows that she'll need a secret weapon. Which is why she dumps Ryan and starts wooing Troy to be her new partner. Gabriella is less than thrilled that Troy has fallen under Sharpay's spell. How could he do that to her?

Things are heating up on the lawns of high society. Will Troy & Gabriella realize that they were meant to be? Or is it too late for them to sing one last song together?

***END SPOILERS***

So do we have ANOTHER musical version MIDSUMMER to ... (look forward?) ... to?


And wasn't this the premise of an episode of SAVED BY THE BELL?

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Updated On: 1/11/07 at 08:08 PM

Wait, wasn't Ryan Sharpay's brother?

Oh goodness. What better way for Disney to cement the superiority of rich, talented kids than having the whole thing take place in a country club? Yuck.

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I'm glad to see MP book subtitled "From Page to Stage." Good to see literary acknowledgment...I'll be sure to purchase that!

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WTF? I agree with Katurian.

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My chorus class wants to do songs from the first movie.

Damn it all.

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Didn't Saved by the Bell use this plot? Oh, wait, that was Kelly's grandfather owned a resort and developers were trying to take it over. Eh, close enough.

"It never fails to amuse me that the girl's name is Sharpay. I mean, seriously."

I'm just wondering, what does the name Sharpay represent?Is Sharpay a musical theater character in a show?

Updated On: 1/11/07 at 10:19 PM

This seems like a pretty pointless, weak, plot so far.

Agreed. As the co-writers of the first movie, I can't imagine that William Shakespeare and Anton Chekhov are too thrilled with the new direction of the franchise.

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Why is Disney even making a second High School Musical? The first was horrible and sequels usually are worse. It's a shame the first musical is being staged as live theatre.

Yuck, yuck, yuck. I hated HSM.

Ryan and Sharpay ARE sister and brother.

Just to throw that out there. But when it says she "dumps" him I think it means she dumps him as her singing partner and tries at first to get Troy to be her singing partner.

Any excuse not to actually have a MUSICAL in High School Musical.

The only similarity with Get Over It is the subject of the show within a show. Silly as that movie is, I'm going to bet that it's twenty times more enjoyable than HSM2. Especially since I'm sure the Midsummer Night's Musical won't actually be an important part of the movie.

Who wants to watch all overproduced audition scenes? Kids weird me out sometimes.

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