What led to the decision to release High School Musical to schools and regional theatres?
TS: There are a few regional theatres that I’m going to allow to do it, and that’s based very much on a case-by-case basis. And they’re very specific people — like Peter Brosius at Children’s Theatre [Company] of Minneapolis. I’ve known Peter for maybe 25 years or more. We ran the Improvisational Theater Project for the Taper together way back in the early eighties, so of course I’m going to let Peter do it. Everybody on that list is somebody that we’re affiliated with in some way. What I wanted to do is let high school students do it, kids performing the show for kids was the first goal. My goal this year is that there will be 5,000 performances by kids for kids. How long would it take you if you did the show on Broadway to do 5,000 performances of a show? What fun to get this piece out there that much. We did a workshop version of it here in New York, a reading where we had actors from Lion King and Tarzan, Beauty, Wicked, Hairspray, and they all came in and performed it, so we could
