{"id":291017,"date":"2020-04-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/high-school-musical-cast-where-are-they-now\/"},"modified":"2020-04-16T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:00:00","slug":"high-school-musical-cast-where-are-they-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/high-school-musical-cast-where-are-they-now\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Musical Cast: Where Are They Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201895\/rs_600x600-181005160105-600-hsm-then-now.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Professional Life:&nbsp;<\/strong>After appearing in all three&nbsp;<em>High School Musical<\/em> films, Hudgens went on to star in&nbsp;films such as <em>Bandslam<\/em>, <em>Beastly<\/em>, <em>Sucker Punch<\/em>, <em>Spring Breakers,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Machete Kills, Second Act <\/em>and<em> Bad Boys for Life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>High School Musical<\/em> was a fantastic journey, but it completely derailed me from where I originally saw my career going,&#8221; Hudgens told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/aug\/10\/vanessa-hudgens-i-always-wanted-to-be-the-indie-girl-playing-a-drug-addict-or-stripper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a>&nbsp;in an August 2018 interview. &#8220;I always wanted to be the indie girl; I always wanted to be in the movies where I&#8217;m playing a drug addict or a stripper or a prostitute. That was my goal since I was like, 11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Hudgens made her Broadway debut in a revival of the musical&nbsp;<em>Gigi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major Heartache:<\/strong> In 2016, she returned to her musical roots and played Rizzo in Fox&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Grease Live!&nbsp;<\/em>Hours before the live production,&nbsp;she&nbsp;<a title=\"Vanessa Hudgens' Dad Greg Dies of Cancer, She Will Perform in Grease: Live ''in His Honor''\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/735715\/vanessa-hudgens-dad-greg-dies-of-cancer-she-will-perform-in-grease-live-in-his-honor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed that her father, Greg Hudgens, had died<\/a>&nbsp;at age 65 after battling stage 4 cancer. &#8220;Tonight, I do the show in his honor,&#8221; she tweeted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/760158\/vanessa-hudgens-opens-up-about-her-father-s-death-3-months-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">before giving one of&nbsp;the best performances of her career<\/a>. She returned for Fox&#8217;s live staging of <em>Rent<\/em> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Personal&nbsp;Life:&nbsp;<\/strong>Hudgens remains&nbsp;good friends with&nbsp;<em>High School Musical<\/em> co-star&nbsp;<strong>Ashley Tisdale<\/strong>. In 2011, a year after Hudgens and <strong>Zac Efron&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/899933\/zac-efron-and-vanessa-hudgens-split-7-years-ago-remembering-their-cutest-moments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">split<\/a>, she began dating actor&nbsp;<strong>Austin Butler<\/strong>. The couple split in early 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/971832\/high-school-musical-cast-where-are-they-now?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional Life:&nbsp;After appearing in all three&nbsp;High School Musical films, Hudgens went on to star in&nbsp;films such as Bandslam, Beastly, Sucker Punch, Spring Breakers,&nbsp;Machete Kills, Second Act and Bad Boys for Life. &#8220;High School Musical was a fantastic journey, but it completely derailed me from where I originally saw my career going,&#8221; Hudgens told The Guardian&nbsp;in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-22 23:34:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}