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The cast of
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series...
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...will be taking a stroll
down memory lane...
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...as we share childhood memories...
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Uh, I got involved in theater very young.
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A couple of bloopers.
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Was that okay?
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A few surprises.
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We are very excited
to share a special world premiere.
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And a whole lot o' music.
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Welcome to High School Musical.
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- The Musical.
- The Holiday Special!
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So this is Arizona.
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I know it's not exactly the North Pole,
but this is where I've grown up,
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this is where I spent
almost every Christmas of my life.
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Whenever I think of Christmas,
I think of my family.
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Waking up on Christmas morning,
seeing the presents under the tree,
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seeing that the cookies and the milk
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that we left out the night before
is all gone.
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And of course,
every Christmas needs an elf,
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so I luckily have my little dog, Violet.
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She is the sweetest thing.
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She always opens up presents
on Christmas Day,
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and it's the funniest thing,
and she gets so excited.
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Over the years, I have been so blessed
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to be able to meet and connect
with so, so many people,
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so I really wanted to dedicate this song
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to all the fans out there
who have grown up with me,
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and of course, to my amazing
High School Musical family.
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I miss them so much.
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We might not be together for the holidays,
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but music always finds a way
to bring us back home.
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Oh, boy.
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So, I grew up right outside San Diego
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with five sisters
and two wonderful parents
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and all the music you could imagine.
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My dad was a professional pianist
and drummer.
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I think each of us
have a little bit of that in our blood.
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And now, music is obviously
such a huge part of my life,
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uh, as I write music
almost every single day.
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Um, and I was fortunate enough
in season one
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to be given the opportunity
to write a song
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with my co-star,
the lovely Olivia Rodrigo.
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And then when season two came around,
I was afforded the insane opportunity
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to write my own Christmas song,
uh, for my character, Ricky,
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that he sings to Nini
because he can't really afford a gift,
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and so he does
the second best thing he can,
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and that is write her a song.
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Writing that Christmas song was a dream.
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Um, and I can't believe
that I get to say this,
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but I am going to be able
to perform it for you tonight,
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um, for the first time ever.
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So, enjoy my song,
slash, Ricky's song, The Perfect Gift.
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I was born and raised
in Selma, California.
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And we are the raisin capital
of the world,
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if that gives you any idea of the town.
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Okay. I grew up
outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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and I come from a very musical family.
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Every Christmas, we would go
to my Nana and Pap's house,
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and we would all stand on chairs
and just sing for all these relatives.
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And they would either sing along
or just watch adoringly
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as we made fools of ourselves as children
'cause we had no fear whatsoever.
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I have seen the footage
of Joe Serafini singing Feliz Navidad.
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Joe's so little.
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And he says
"From the bottom o' my heart."
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It's so cute.
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My favorite things about being a part
of the cast of High School Musical
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is that you have this whole second family.
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And it's great, 'cause you have
this whole group of people
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that are loving and supporting
and just there to encourage you.
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I grew up singing with my family,
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and, uh, you know,
as everyone gets older,
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we all go our separate ways, and now
I have a new duet partner.
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And now...
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I feel like the person
that would give the best homemade gift
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would be Julia Lester.
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Has to be Julia.
She's very into tie-dye.
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I feel like Olivia.
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She's definitely the most thoughtful
when it comes to gifts.
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I think Olivia.
She will go beyond.
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Feel like it'd be Dara.
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Dara or Frankie, 'cause they, like,
truly, like, think about you.
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I remember Frankie got me a present,
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and Frankie spent like some money.
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So, I would only pick Frankie
'cause I know he not gonna be cheap, so...
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Mm, I don't wanna snitch on nobody.
Um...
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I think Joshua Bassett.
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Probably Josh.
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- Joshua Bassett.
- Joshua Bassett.
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Yeah, it's got to be Joshie.
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I bet everybody said me, didn't they?
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I feel like he's up to no good sometimes.
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- He's a little terror.
- No way!
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Of course they said that. Yeah.
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Joe Serafini played Tiny Tim,
like, four years in a row.
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I played Tiny Tim as a child.
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Joe Serafini actually did play
Tiny Tim as a kid.
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That had to have been Larry.
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Was it Kate Reinders as Tiny Tim?
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What's Tiny Tim?
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What is that?
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Ooh!
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I grew up in Woodland Hills, California,
in a super theatrical family.
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My dad, Loren, and my mom, Kelly,
met doing theater,
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and my sisters, Jenny, Lily,
and I grew up doing theater.
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We caught that acting bug super early.
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So, definitely
a lot of musical theater energy
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radiating through our household.
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Both sides of my family are Jewish,
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so we grew up
celebrating Hanukkah predominantly.
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- Happy Hanukkah.
- Hanukkah's tomorrow.
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Well, are we gonna open the presents?
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You sure are.
You gonna light the candles?
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Open presents?
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Yeah, that's right.
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I remember making gingerbread houses
with my sisters every year.
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Um, but not out of gingerbread,
out of graham crackers and frosting,
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because again, Jews.
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I give you the tower of Julia.
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Wow!
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So, I got to thinking
about what I could sing,
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and I could definitely sing you
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100 different Christmas songs
off the top of my head,
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but where's the Mariah Carey version
of a Hanukkah song?
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So, I thought tonight
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I would add a little bit
of music video flare to Hanukkah,
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and because I'm 100% a theater dork,
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and it's literally in my DNA,
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I'm going to be doing it as a medley.
L'chaim.
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♪ See the faces shine
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Um, I grew up
in a very small town in Arkansas,
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a town called Rogers.
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It's the kind of place
where everybody knows everybody
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because it's so small.
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I'm a very family-oriented person.
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And, uh, I grew up in a household
that wasn't necessarily super wealthy.
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But, you know,
we had the time with each other
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which was most important for us,
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but when I said I wanted
to come out here to Los Angeles
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and give acting a go,
you know, my brother,
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he decided to take
everything in his savings
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and what he'd worked
his life for and give me a shot.
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He gave my parents the money
and my mom and I moved out to Los Angeles,
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and I started my whole acting career.
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There's actually a photo
of me on Christmas morning,
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wearing, to a T,
the exact same stripped-blue T-shirt
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that EJ wears in season one,
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
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I guess there's a fun fact
I didn't know about myself
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and the fact that I never
outgrow clothes, so that's fun.
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There's a lot of things I love in my life.
My family, my faith, um,
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and up there, at the top of my list,
is my Camaro, my baby, my car,
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my red beauty, that I call Arrow.
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So, today I get to sing
my song in Hollywood
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with my beautiful car
making its TV debut,
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with a song from the 1980s.
It's gonna be so much fun.
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It's literally a true dream
and Christmas miracle at that.
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I grew up in New York City,
and I was a true theater kid.
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I actually have a picture of me
in a menorah costume at, like, age five.
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I loved putting on performances
for people.
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I'll say that sometimes
I would feel embarrassed
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about the fact that I celebrated
Hanukkah and not Christmas.
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I remember when I was younger,
asking for a Christmas present from Santa,
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because I was always nervous
I wasn't gonna get a present from Santa
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even though I was such a good kid.
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And now that I'm an adult,
I've taken real ownership over the fact
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that I am Jewish and that I do celebrate
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a holiday that might not be
what everybody celebrates.
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And it makes me unique,
and I'm so proud of that.
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This song that I'm singing
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is all about dreaming
about something that isn't there.
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It's kind of like
what it's like to be an actor.
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Being able to create something
from nothing.
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Also, fun fact, written by Irving Berlin,
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a nice Jewish boy like me.
So I hope I can do it justice.
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Always wanted a baby elephant,
which I thought'd be the coolest thing.
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I asked for
the black Power Ranger costume,
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and I got the blue Power Ranger costume.
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A school desk. That's right.
So, what? So I could play school?
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Every year, I would ask
for a new American Girl doll,
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even though they're all the same.
You know, quantity over quality.
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I could pretend school
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when I was not at school.
Like a really cool kid.
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- A younger sibling.
- Probably to be a mermaid.
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Barbie's dream house.
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I actually wanted a Barbie laptop.
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All I wanted was a bride dress.
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My parents were
giving me all this stuff,
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and I didn't care,
I wanted this bride dress.
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So, I think a bride dress.
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Ho-ho-ho-ho!
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What is up?
Merry Christmas.
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I was born in LA,
but I grew up in Baltimore
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because my mom wanted to open
a performing arts school for kids.
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One of the reasons she did it is
because I was so shy when I was younger.
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And that school
literally broke me out of my shell.
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And I'm just so grateful
that my mom created it,
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and she's just been
such an inspiration to me.
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This song is about Christmas
and seeing through the eyes of a child
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and that wonder of waking up
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on Christmas morning
and being able to be with your family,
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and also knowing that one day,
we all are gonna grow up
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and we're all gonna be able
to be someone completely different,
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but also unique and also special,
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with the knowledge of what you gain
through all of those years.
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So, if I were to tell
my younger self, um, something, you know,
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some people are going to doubt you,
but to always believe in yourself,
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have faith in yourself,
and make each day,
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every single day of the year,
as if it were Christmas morning.
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Always have that excitement and that joy
and that purpose to keep going. Period.
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Whoo!
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Okay.
I am from a little town in Michigan.
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And I got involved in theater very young.
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I always liked to sing
and dance and talk a lot,
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and so, I was really lucky
to play a lot of the girl roles
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every little girl dreams of playing,
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like Annie and
Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz,
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and I also played a bunch of roles
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that every little girl
doesn't really dream of playing
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like Sebastian the crab,
Wilbur the pig, and Tiny Tim,
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three years in a row.
That's right.
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Hi. A lot of people
don't know I'm from Louisiana.
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I'm from the happy,
happy land of Louisiana.
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I started young with performing,
with my stage debut as an angel of God.
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And I remember taking it so seriously,
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the woman who was designing the costumes
handed me this lip gloss
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as an artistic flare, and I really thought
that was the touch that made me an angel.
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Tonight is the best night ever
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because I will be singing
a duet with Mr. Mark St. Cyr.
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Now you may know him
as Mr. Mazzara from our show,
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and he isn't very nice to Miss Jenn.
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But I have to tell you the truth
is that Mark St. Cyr is the sweetest.
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I have the great honor of being
his first-ever singing partner
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for his first-ever on-camera
singing performance,
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and I just have to say,
"Get ready, world."
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They told me this was a solo.
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Just kidding.
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One of the amazing things about this year
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is I got to spend
so much more time with my family,
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and I realized that was
so important to me,
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and I wanna be able to
do that again next year in 2021.
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To really make the most
of the time that you have,
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especially with the people
you have it with.
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To soak in every exciting moment
that I have.
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I feel like sometimes
we let time get away from us,
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but focus more on my friends and family
and enjoying each second more.
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Try to live more in the now
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and appreciate what you have,
whether it be experiences or memories,
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and just kinda take those moments in
and cherish them because
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once they're gone, they're gone.
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I think I have very similar
New Year's resolutions every year.
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It's to become the best person
that I can be.
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That's really all I can ever ask for.
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My New Year's resolution
every year is funny
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because why do I even make it?
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Never happens.
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My New Year's resolution
is to meet Beyoncé.
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I know that's a little off,
but, Miss B, even if it's through Zoom,
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I'm totally cool with that.
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There are so many
home videos of me singing,
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like, ridiculous songs that I made up.
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I'm an only child, and so my parents
just absolutely loved that
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and they loved filming me.
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Mom, this isn't Hannah Montana...
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I got ya', babe.
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There's just, like, so much footage
of me singing these gibberish songs.
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I am so inspired
by female singer-songwriters,
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I draw so much inspiration from them,
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like, Taylor Swift and Fiona Apple
and Lorde, and people like that.
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I think the best artists
are great listeners, and so
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I definitely try to learn a lot from them.
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Tonight, I'm going to sing a song
called River by Joni Mitchell.
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Joni Mitchell's one of the most iconic
songwriters of all time.
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And she did a really good job
of writing a sad Christmas song,
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which I think is so special.
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Christmas and the holidays
are nostalgic for a lot of people,
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and sometimes that nostalgia
doesn't have to always be,
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you know, joyful and peaceful,
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and she does a really great job
of capturing that, uh,
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so I'm really excited to sing it.
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And now, we are very excited...
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...to share a special world premiere...
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...with the first song
from season two of...
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...High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
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Picture this.
The drama kids of East High...
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...have decided to launch their very own
Instagram page dedicated to me.
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Well, the theater club.
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And they do it the only way
theater kids know how.
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By singing and dancing
through the halls at school.
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Then stick around for one more song
that'll bring you home for the holidays.
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And thank you for joining us
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as we celebrate
this special time of year together.
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Frankie and Dara, take it away!
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Ladies, gentlemen,
or however else you identify,
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welcome to the East High drama club's
brand-new Instagram page.
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We are excited to announce
that behind these doors,
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the theater is being restored to its full,
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resplendent, 1960s-era glory
over the holiday break.
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Um, I think Christmas for me really means
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being able to sit back
from working and traveling
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and just remember what it's like
to be a regular 16-year-old girl.
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Christmas to me now is just a great time
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to reconnect with the family
that you're away from most of the year.
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I think of family, tons of fun
in the snow, and food.
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Lots and lots of food.
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A chance to spend
quality time with the family,
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bring us all together.
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And you might not know this,
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but quality time
is one of my love languages.
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Christmas always made me
think of my home that I grew up in.
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But now, having Luke, it's really about
me making his memories with him.
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And I wanna balance it
with letting him know
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that Christmas
is really about being loved.
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And it's not about
all the presents that I give him,
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but it's really that he is
the biggest gift I have ever received.
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I've had the opportunity
to be able to give back,
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especially to my parents.
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It was kinda difficult for them
to, um, get everyone in my family,
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you know, a really great gift.
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They did the best that they could, uh,
and so the thing I'm most excited about
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is to be able to give back to them
and the rest of my family.
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And you know what?
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That's Christmas to me.
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♪ And all the fun we had last year