of the High School Musical Cast Both the High School ... Hudgens played Gabriella Montez alongside Zac Efron’s Troy Bolton in all three HSM movies, which came out in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Troy returns to East High, his high school in New Mexico, to find that Gabriella is a new student there. They quickly become close friends and accidentally audition for the school musical.

Not only is Troy and Gabriella’s final audition song the best in the series – it’s the best in the entire High School Musical canon. What do the lyrics mean? Absolutely nothing! And it doesn ...

The High School Musical film series chronicles two high school students, Troy Bolton, captain of East High School’s basketball team (Wildcats) and Gabriella Montez, a shy top student.