![]() “Joe reminds me of a younger version of me. ![]() Federle, who wrote the book for Tuck Everlasting, spotted Serafini across the street, waiting at the stage door for Something Rotten!. They reconnected three years later, when Serafini was on a high school senior-year field trip to New York. Federle was there to receive a distinguished alumni award. The two first met in 2013 when Serafini’s troupe Pittsburgh CLO Mini Stars performed at the Gene Kelly Awards, honoring excellence in Pittsburgh-area high school musical theater. We took this photo on our last day of shooting the pilot for is just 10 DAYS away from premiering on November 8 on Disney Channel, ABC, & Freeform!! be sure to tune in – see y’all east high □❤️Ī post shared by Joe Serafini on at 6:28pm PDT “I guess - I mean, I don’t want to be too presumptuous - but Tim saw something in me that he wanted to, you know, keep track of,” he says humbly. Serafini credits Federle with helping him snag the role. Less than a week later, he was in Salt Lake City, getting fitted in Seb’s normcore teen clothes for the first day of shooting. A month later, Disney slid back into Serafini’s DMs, this time asking him to audition for Seb. The part would go to the athletic Matt Cornett. Caswell, the egocentric big man on campus. Serafini initially self-taped for lead character E.J. In October 2018, a Disney casting agent messaged the then-junior at University of Michigan, asking if he’d send in a tape for a new Disney+ show called High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. In very Gen Z fashion, he booked the gig over an Instagram DM. He is who I was hiding inside in high school,” Serafini tells me. “Seb is just really into the fabulous energy that Sharpay has. When it came to the actual casting, Serafini didn’t approach the role of Seb as “Gay Sharpay.” He saw Seb as a talented, confident and honest teen. But choreographer (and Seb’s eventual love interest) Carlos, played by Frankie Rodriguez, interjects on his behalf, saying, “I think he’d rather read for Sharpay.” (Serafini says he actually played Ryan in a seventh-grade production of High School Musical). The resemblance is easy: They’re two bright-eyed and blond theatre boys. In the pilot episode, drama teacher Miss Jenn (Kate Reinders) initially pegs Seb for the character of Ryan, Sharpay’s brother, who’s always been coded as gay - he wears fedoras and is obsessed with his campy sister. That Serafini cuts through minimal dialogue and background placement to excel in both roles is only further fabulosity. While Seb was simply a recurring character this season, his take on Sharpay garnered attention for the gender-swapped casting. Series creator Tim Federle adds, “Sharpay emerges as more of an icon than a capital-W woman in this retelling.”ĭisney+’s surprisingly strong original series follows students putting on a production of High School Musical at the fictionalized high school where the original movie was filmed. ![]() He just enjoys wearing makeup, so it was a stronger choice to go in this direction,” Serafini tells MEL. “I don’t think Seb is really a drag queen, per se. He’s a teen in 2020 having fun with his fashion. Actor Joe Serafini, who plays Seb, who plays Sharpay (the show is very meta), wears a silver blazer with pink lapels, shiny silver pants and a pink streak in his hair. In the new Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Sharpay isn’t any of these things. Her hair is teased and her nails are painted white. ![]() Ashley Tisdale made the scene famous in the 2006 Disney Channel movie. When Sharpay Evans finally shouts halfway through the bop “Stick to the Status Quo,” she’s in a bedazzled pink blazer paired with white pants and silver belt.
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