What High School Musical taught me was visual storytelling, because I was a dancer on Broadway, where I'm not using my voice at all. What was the process of adapting your own book like for you? Did you have to kill your darlings in any sense when choosing what needs to be on screen? So, my secret to getting it right on screen is to hire real theater people and then get out of the way. You keep hearing the word no, but you find the people who say yes. What I've learned again and again and again is that theater people have an indomitable spirit, where you get rejected and you're told you're too tiny or too tall, or you don't sing that high enough. Rueby would, when he walked in for his audition for Nate, he sang "Defying Gravity" from Wicked - not a song that every 13 year old boy in America would choose. When Joshua Bassett was hired for High School Musical at 17 years old, he had grown up doing Christian youth theater and had played 40 roles on stage. Tim Federle: Hire real theater people, and then get out of their way. What is your secret to finding the perfect balance? The merging of showtunes and the screen can always be tricky.
All Rights Reserved.Īs a huge musical nerd myself, I have to thank you for the existence of both Better Nate Than Ever and the High School Musical series. Rueby Wood as Nate in 20th Century Studios' Better Nate Than Ever, exclusively on Disney+.
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