{"id":9553060,"date":"2021-04-08T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/?p=9553060"},"modified":"2021-04-14T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:24:15","slug":"high-school-musical-season-2-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/culture\/tv-film\/high-school-musical-season-2-trailer-9553060\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;High School Musical&#8217; Trailer Shows What&#8217;s Next for Olivia Rodrigo &#038; Joshua&nbsp;Bassett"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pmc-paywall\"><p><em>High School Musical: The Musical: The Series\u00a0<\/em>unveiled its official trailer for season 2 on Thursday (April 8) ahead of its Disney+ premiere next month.<\/p>\n<p>In typical Disney fashion, the East High Wildcats are gearing up for their spring musical\u00a0<em>Beauty and the Beast\u00a0<\/em>while facing off against their North High rivals performing\u00a0<em>The Little Mermaid<\/em>\u00a0in the cutthroat Alan Menken Awards for High School Musical Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nini&#8217;s (Olivia Rodrigo) admission into the Youth Actors Conservatory forces her and Ricky (Joshua Bassett) to explore a long-distance relationship while she misses out on the musical. The second season of <em>HSMTMTS\u00a0<\/em>follows a similar storyline to that of\u00a0<em>High School Musical 3: Senior Year<\/em>, when Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella&#8217;s (Vanessa Hudgens) are long-distance while she heads off to college early and nearly misses their last spring musical before graduation.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"injected-related-story \/\/ lrv-u-display-inline-block lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-margin-t-2 u-margin-t-26@mobile-max u-margin-b-0.875@mobile-max u-margin-b-150@tablet u-border-t-12 lrv-u-padding-t-025 u-padding-b-1.313 lrv-u-padding-b-125@mobile-max lrv-u-border-color-black\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-a-unstyle-link lrv-u-whitespace-nowrap u-font-weight-700 lrv-u-display-inline-block u-line-height-18px a-font-accent u-letter-spacing-0225 u-font-size-16 lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-article-badge-underline a-article-esp u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-margin-b-1@mobile-max u-margin-b-9@tablet\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t\n\t\n<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"injected-related-story-wrapper lrv-u-flex lrv-u-justify-content-space-between lrv-u-padding-tb-050@desktop a-children-border-vertical a-children-border--grey a-children-border-width-050\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"o-card \">\n\n\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/high-school-musical-the-musical-the-series-season-2-release-date-9530912\/\" class=\"lrv-u-color-black:hover lrv-u-flex u-flex-direction-column@desktop\"\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-margin-b-075 lrv-u-margin-b-00@mobile-max u-width-130px@mobile-max\">\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"a-crop-6x4 a-crop-3x2@mobile-max\" style=\"\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hsmtmts-s2_first_look_photo-cr-Disney-Plus-2021-billboard-1548-1614195118.jpg?w=237&#038;h=147&#038;crop=1\" alt=\"High School Musical: The Musical: The Series&quot;\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"auto\" height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<div class=\"o-card__content \">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<span class=\"c-span  lrv-u-whitespace-nowrap\">\n\n\t\n<\/span>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"o_category \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"c_title \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  a-font-basic-fancy u-font-size-15 u-font-size-15.5@mobile-max u-line-height-22px u-padding-r-0.188@desktop u-word-spacing-0013 u-line-height-22.5px@mobile-max a-truncate-ellipsis-4line@mobile-max a-truncate-ellipsis-3line\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t&#x27;High School Musical: The Musical: The Series&#x27; 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Her <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener\"  >Billboard Hot 100<\/a> No. 1 &#8220;Drivers License&#8221; debut single recently became the f<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9549886\/olivia-rodrigo-drivers-license-first-song-1-billion-global-streams-2021\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener\"  >irst song to hit 1 billion global streams<\/a> in 2021 after it spent\u00a0eight weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-global-200\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener\"  data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-global-200&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617384605149000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFZmTpjEpVgh800qoad5S4CeJlcrQ\"  >Billboard Global 200<\/a>\u00a0chart and nine weeks on the\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-global-excl-us\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener\"  data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-global-excl-us&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617384605149000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHzgbB416NUqAZZbm32BviNAc7NDg\"  >Billboard Global Excluding U.S.<\/a>\u00a0chart. Bassett&#8217;s &#8220;Lie Lie Lie&#8221;\u00a0earned him a spot in\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/9518076\/joshua-bassett-interview-emerging-artists-spotlight\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener\"  >Emerging Artists Spotlight<\/a>\u00a0in January.<\/p>\n<p><em>Billboard\u00a0<\/em>exclusively\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/television\/9524322\/high-school-musical-the-musical-the-series-cast-additions\/\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"noopener\"  >broke the news<\/a>\u00a0in February that\u00a0<em>HSMTMTS\u00a0<\/em>added\u00a0Broadway vet Andrew Barth Feldman (<em>Dear Evan Hansen<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical<\/em>) and television\/film star Asher Angel\u00a0(<em>Shazam!<\/em>) to the season 2 cast.\u00a0The pair will join the previously announced slate of recurring guest stars Derek Hough (Zack), Roman Banks\u00a0(Howie) and Olivia Rose Keegan\u00a0(Lily), as well as series regulars Rodrigo, Bassett, Matt Cornett, Sofia Wylie, Larry Saperstein, Julia Lester, Dara Rene\u00e9, Frankie Rodriguez, Joe Serafini, Mark St. Cyr and Kate Reinders.<\/p>\n<p>Below, watch the <em>HSMTMTS\u00a0<\/em>trailer and check out the season 2 poster before its premieres May 14 on Disney+.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\">