Spoiler Points for High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)

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Spoiler Points for High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) [G] 112 minutes
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Spoiler Points for High School Musical 3: Senior Year

If halfway through HSM3, you got the urge to rush down to your corner basketball court / center stage and perform your own basketball dance routine and therefore missed the rest of the film or if you want to know which songs fit where in the story, then this spoiler's for you.

• The film begins with the Wildcats down at the half in the state high school basketball championship game. Troy (Zac Efron) and Chad (Corbin Bleu) bring the team back and win the game off a pass from Troy to Jimmie "The Rocketman" Zara (Matt Prokop) who scores the final lay-up.
[ this includes the first dance number "Now or Never" ]
• After the game, they all go to Zac's house for a huge celebration party. There's no sign of kids drinking. It's a good, clean, happy party. It's pretty clear that Rocketman has a bro-crush on Zac.
• Zac and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) can be found up in Zac's tree house he and his dad built when he was a kid. They talk about her getting in to Stanford and about his future plans to got to University of Albuquerque. The tree house is really cool, and serves as the location for the next musical number with the roof flipping open so they can dance and sing under the stars.
[ the musical number here is called "Right Here Right Now" ]
• The next day at school, Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) arrives and hires a new personal assistant, Tiara Gold (Jemma McKenzie-Brown). She's a transfer from a school in London and has Sharpay all figured out.
• Jimmie asks Troy for his locker.
• Troy heads into homeroom. No one wants to be in the musical, but Kelsi (Olesya Rulin) signs them up anyway. Finally, Gabriella convinces Troy who then convinces everyone to do the spring musical because it's their last chance to be together. Ms. Darbus (Alyson Reed) informs them the musical will be called "Senior Year" and will be about their final months at East High. She also brings up that Sharpay, Ryan (Lucas Grabeel), Kelsi, or, surprisingly, Troy will be offered a chance of a Julliard scholarship based on their final performances. Troy has no idea how they got his name, he's never even heard of Julliard.
• She has them line up and tell what their future will be. Troy has no idea. It's clear he's having doubts about the future his father has planned for him and the one he might want for himself.
• Sharpay wants Ryan to get the songs that Kelsi prepares for Troy and Gabriella. They head to the lunch room and break out in a gigantic musical number straight out of a real Broadway musical.
[ The song is called "I Want It All" ]
• The next day before school, Troy calls Gabriella up to the rooftop garden where he asks her to pick out his tux for prom. They dance and waltz until it starts to rain.
[ The song is called "Can I Have This Dance" ]
• Gabriella agrees to go to Prom with Troy.
• Troy and Chad swipe The Rocketman's clothes and run him all around the school in a towel ending up on the stage during the musical rehearsal where he's then picked to help with the sets.
• Troy and Gabriella head home to her house after school. She tells him in the hammock that he's really talented and looks like he loves performing on stage. He agrees, but he cannot tell his dad or Chad. He also admits that other schools are interested in him other than U of A.
• The next day at school, Chad messes up his Prom invite to Taylor so Troy helps him out at lunch. She agrees to go with him.
[ This is then followed by the getting ready for prom stage number "A Night to Remember" ]
• The boys are far less excited about this whole prom thing than the girls are. The number transitions and turns into a scene from their "Senior Year" musical.
• To get rid of Rocketman, Troy tells him that Sharpay has a secret crush on him.
• Gabriella gets into the Stanford honors program, and Tiara overhears her telling Taylor. She tells no one else.
• Next morning, Ryan shows up to work with Kelsi who is composing the final number for Troy and Gabriella. He asks her to prom.
[This transitions into the performance of the number for the musical rehearsal with Troy and Gabriella singing "Just Wanna Be with You" ]
• Troy and Chad travel by Troy's dilapidated pick-up truck to Riley's Salvage Yard. Troy shares with Chad his disgruntlement about having his life planned out for him.
[ Troy talking about how they used to hang out in this junk yard as kids and be 10 people transitions into their duet called "The Boys are Back" ]
• Chad asks him what he'll do if he gets the Julliard scholarship and he's not sure.
• Sharpay tells Troy that Gabriella got into the honors program at Standford and will have to miss the musical. She suggests that Gabriella probably didn't tell him because he's the only thing holding her back.
• That night he shows up at Gabriella's house with a Margherita pizza and chocolate-covered strawberries. He asks her how come she didn't tell him about Stanford, and she says she's thinking about delaying Stanford and staying in Albuquerque for another year. She wants everything to slow down. He says, they are going to graduate and it's not going to slow down for them. She says not to worry about it, she's better at goodbyes than he is. They smooch and he leaves. His truck won't start, so he walks home.
[ This transitions into Gabriella's goodbye number called "Walk Away" ]
• She and her mom sell the house and she heads to California.
• Troy is sad, but the musical must go on. Sharpay will perform Gabriella's number in the show.
• That night, Troy hears his dad on the basketball court. He tells his dad she'll be back for prom. His dad asks him why he never mentioned the Julliard thing. He tells asks his dad if he'll let him make his own decisions. He heads to the gym and puts on his old basketball jersey.
[ This transitions into Troy's number "Scream" where he must figure out what to do with his life.]
• He ends up on the stage. Ms. D. is there. She tells him she's the one who sent in his application to Julliard.
• The next day's musical rehearsal goes badly due to the absence of Gabriella. Ms. D. makes Tiara and Rocketman understudies.
• Troy surprises his mom with his tux. He gets a call from Gabriella. She explains she's not coming back to East High, she's spent two weeks getting over him and cannot go through it again. He's heartbroken. Chad tries to cheer him up by talking about the U of A. Troy tells him that he's not going to miss his prom.
• In his tux, he drives to Stanford to find Gabriella. He waits for her up in a tree. She comes out and spots his truck. He calls to her from the tree where he says he can see things better. He tells her that his prom is wherever she is.
• They head back to East High, but won't get there until the second act.
• The musical starts.
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• Sharpay has to do the number with Rocketman because Troy's not back. The number is hilarious and Troy and Gabriella show up just in time to see him on stage soaking in the applause. They then sing. Tiara meets up with Sharpay and admits she's been using her to gain knowledge of the drama department which she plans to run next year.
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• They finish up the musical with their graduation scene. Ms. D. announces what happens to each kid: Kelsi wins the Julliard as does Ryan. Sharpay will be going to the U of A and returning to help her run the drama dept. Troy announces that he'll be going to stay with basketball and theatre at a school where he'll be close to the one who inspires him. He's going to Berkley exactly 32.7 miles from Stanford where Gabriella will be Pre-Law. Chad is going to U of A. They try to find him, but he's gone. Troy finds him on the court. They determine they will play against each other in November. Troy's dad orders them back to the stage.
• The actual graduation ceremony goes on. Troy gives the commencement address. "Once a wildcat, always a wildcat!" he closes. His father is wearing a Cal Berkley cap. There is a final graduation number that begins on the field with the graduates forming an E H and then a giant wildcat head.
[ "We're all in this Together" ]
• The principal actors all end up on stage in front of a red curtain with the High School Musical in lights behind them. They each get a long shot and look very introspectively at their high school musical careers. Then the final curtain closes on them too.