Wildcats in the House
The Wildcats, as millions of tweens and teens know, are the singing and dancing kids from Disney’s High School Musical and High School Musical 2. Now they’re making High School Musical 3, which means the house they’re in is East High School in Salt Lake City, where filming takes place.
Some students are excited that Troy and Gabriela and the rest of the cast and crew are using their school, but others attending East in real-life are complaining that their fictional counterparts are making it difficult to get around the campus, The Salt Lake Tribune says.
The school has benefited from the Hollywood visitors–in addition to a $75,000 rental agreement, Disney has provided new auditorium curtains, and fresh coats of paint in the library, hallways and lockers. But some students think the disruption isn’t worth it. As one wrote to the newspaper:
As I walk through the school, half of the hallways I use are blocked off for filming. It gets difficult to get to classes and I have been tardy. The gym has been monopolized, so no matter what the weather is, we are sent outdoors. This is a school, not a movie set. Filming should be done after school hours.
Should schools be leasing their facilities to filmmakers or other outside groups that may interfere with school functions? Is the financial benefit worth the disruption?
