The TV Addict 

In case you missed it, check out Zac Efron promoting HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 and HAIRSPRAY on Tuesday’s episode of THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO. OMG! HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 premieres in one week on Friday August 17… ummm… we think

Ready to hear the song that will be stuck in your head for the rest of the summer? If so, click above to check out the inevitable first smash from Disney’s HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 “You Are the Music in Me.” Not surprisingly, it’s catchy.

Oh, and don’t even begin to pretend you have no idea what this HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL is all about. Whether you’re in High School, University, or like this TV Addict — simply far too old to be watching the Disney channel. We know you know all the words to ‘Breaking Free’ as well as the choreography to ‘Stick to the Status Quo.’ As the song goes, ‘We’re All in This Together.’ So we won’t tell if you don’t!

theTHEATREaddict here with some TV related scoop.

Gossip, rivalry, young Hollywood, jealousy, short skirts, tension, love lost…no this is not something by way of Perez Hilton but the New York Times!

The NYT published a great story this weekend on the start of rehearsals for HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2. Titled “Back To School” reporter Jacques Steinberg reveals some details about the upcoming film and perhaps some of the cracks beginning to form. Gossip aside it is a fascinating insight into the phenomenon known as HSM. From the story, the crystallization of the idea:

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As much as I really wanted to ‘Get’Cha Head In The Game’, I couldn’t bring myself to actually go out and buy a ticket to see HIGH SCHOOL MUSCIAL LIVE (the live concert of the hit Disney Channel movie HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL). Lucky for me, my fellow blogger the THEATRE addict had no such reservations (He was of course only going to see the production in his capacity as a ‘professional blogger’!) Click here to read his full report.