High School Musical 2: On Stage! - Characters

Characters

• Troy Bolton – good-looking teen dreamboat, star of the basketball team and school icon; loves to sing with Gabriella; obsessed with getting a summer job and nailing a full basketball scholarship; gets a job at the country club due to Sharpay’s secret plot to steal him away from Gabriella.
• Gabriella Montez – the new girl in school; pretty, shy, and possesses a fantastic voice when she sings with Troy; she is also the smartest girl in the Southwest; gets a job as a lifeguard at the country club and expects to have the best summer of her life with her new friends; in for a rude awakening as Sharpay tries to steal Troy away from her.
• Sharpay Evans – beautiful and egocentric star of the school musicals; Ryan’s older twin, she is the alpha dog of the two, and has a mad crush on Troy; she never met a mirror she didn’t like; looking forward to a summer by the pool at her dad’s country club, and to stealing Troy away from Gabriella; she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
• Ryan Evans – Sharpay’s fraternal twin brother, he is a star in the making; loves singing, dancing and lots of attention; follows Sharpay’s orders, but wants to break free from her shadow; he and Sharpay have a falling-out, and he joins the Wildcats to try to beat his sister for the Star Dazzle Award.
• Chad Danforth – hot-wired jock, second in command to Troy; trying to save money to buy a car so he can take Taylor out to the drive-in movies; gets a job at the country club, but gets all the dirty jobs, while Troy is treated like royalty; sibling rivalry steams up between Troy and him.
• Taylor McKessie – head brainiac of the school, she is the president of the Science Club; Chad’s girlfriend; gets hired as Fulton’s assistant, and tries to warn Gabriella and Chad about Sharpay’s plans to get Troy over to the dark side.
• Kelsi Nielsen – diminutive musical genius; wants to write the great American musical for Troy and Gabriella; gets hired to play the complete Muzak Elevator Songbook during meals at the country club; gets sucked into Sharpay’s plans against her will.
• Jack Scott – the techno nerd school announcer; awkward and gawky when not making the announcements, but as soon as he gets behind a microphone, he turns into “The Velvet Fog of East High”; has a crush on Kelsi.
• Zeke Baylor – basketball jock who loves to cook top-notch cuisine; has a crush on Sharpay, who dumps him in the first scene; gets a job assisting the chef at the country club; vows to win back Sharpay by sending her pastries at the country club.
• Martha Cox – member of the Science Club; fun-loving side-kicky personality; loves hip-hop dancing; becomes adoring devotee of Gabriella; one of the gang; hired to cut onions at the country club.
• Violet, Blossom, and Peaches – the “Sharpettes” – three Sharpay-wannabes; teen socialites who provide both social and musical back-up to Sharpay.
• Oberon T. Fulton – the henpecked hatchet man for Sharpay; Assistant Manager at the country club, dreams of being the General Manager someday; a meticulous control freak who is never without his stopwatch and boatswain's whistle; actually a nice guy underneath the authoritarian surface; hates having to cater to Sharpay's demands, but he has a mortgage to pay.
• Ripper – An additional "skater" Wildcat.
• Ms. Darbus (voice-over) – Head of the East High Drama Department.
• Redhawks Player (voice-over)
• Makeover artists – Dermatologists, Tailors, Hairdresers, Valet
• Talent show contestants – Rowena Waggenheim, Billy Flatley, Rosette Shimshank, Theresa Templeton, Janey Fire
• Ensemble Other Wildcats, Lava Springs Pool Boys, Cheerleaders, Country Club Members