Review: High School Musical 2

The future begins in September

High School Musical 2 is a celebration of young performers.

If you want to get into the spring festival spirit, you should go see the High School Musical 2 performance produced by the Helsinki City Theatre. You can absorb teenage energy from a youth musical and youth hubris. Sometimes even that is enough for entertainment.

The musical starts from the last day of school in the spring. The story has good and evil, as in all products bearing the Disney stamp. In High School Musical 2 , evil also turns into good and life is like dancing – or singing. And let’s not forget love, friendship and the importance of promises.

Every young person and their mothers and fathers would like Walt Disney to be in God’s place: that even though it is difficult and evil today, at least in the autumn – then someday – everything would be fine, that the future would be waiting somewhere untouched and unblemished. “The future begins in September,” the musical’s line underlined.

Director Marco Bjurström has a knack for getting a lot out of young performers. Yasmine Yamajako, Jukka Nylund, Anna Laulumaa, Samuel Harjanne… The whole group could be added to the list of new promises, but special thanks – the Spring Festival scholarship – deserve for Saara Aalto’s intense dedication.