Sammy’s into a TV show called High School Musical, The Musical: The Series. It’s taken me months to get my head around it. Here’s what I think is going on.
It’s set in the school where Disney filmed the original High School Musical. The idea is that a new drama teacher wants to celebrate this fact by putting on a performance of, you guessed it, High School Musical in the school. Hence High School Musical, The Musical. Over the course of the series, the kids with all their turbulent relationship and home lives let their various plots intertwine until opening night.
So, we, living in Reality Universe A, are watching kids in Universe B put on a show about Universe C, the HSM universe. In Universe B, High School Musical (C) the movie is also fictional and they’re copying it, fully referencing “V Hudge” and presumably “Disney” as entities that are ‘real’ in Universe B, just like they are in our Universe, Reality Universe A.
And the race is on to land those parts.
There’s also a Universe D of course, the version of High School Musical the kids in Universe B put on at the end of the series. Let’s not worry too much about that one.
So basically we’re watching a fictional show made by a company who have invented a world in which that company also exists and made a movie that really is in our universe and theirs, and that’s being recreated by fictional characters.
This is honestly worse than that time Julia Roberts turned up in Ocean’s 12 and was told that she looked exactly like the character being played by the real Julia Roberts. No, Hollywood. Some storytelling rules are just not breakable!
I guess Zach Efron might turn up in Universe B playing a fictionalised version of himself in High School Musical, The Musical: The Series. I hope so. But if the kids refer to him as Troy, I promise you, I am switching off.
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