Corbin Bleu and Sarah Hyland go means again!
Whereas talking to PEOPLE on the 2024 Drama Desk Awards on Monday, June 10, the theater performers revealed that they met on the set of Excessive College Musical 3: Senior 12 months greater than 16 years in the past.
Hyland, 33, says on the time she was an adolescent who headed to the set to go to a pal who was within the solid. “That is how I spent my senior 12 months spring break,” Hyland laughs. “I wasn’t like, , like making an attempt to love go to Florida and get wild or something like that.”
“That might be my spring break, too,” Bleu, 35, reassures her.
“However like, my theater child [thing] is simply to be with different theater children in Salt Lake Metropolis and like simply sing songs. We might actually simply sing songs for one another,” the Trendy Household alum provides, noting how everybody sang their audition songs for the film to 1 one other.
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“Once more, it was a ton of youngsters in the identical lodge and working by the hallways” Bleu says.
“Actually run by the hallways,” Hyland shortly provides. “We profusely apologized to the individuals who had been staying there on their very own time that weren’t part of Excessive College Musical 3.”
The 2 performers have had main roles within the off-Broadway manufacturing of the Little Store of Horrors revival. On Might 26, Bleu departed from the manufacturing and handed the position of Seymour Krelborn to Andrew Barth Feldman.
In the meantime, Hyland took over the position of Seymour Krelborn’s love curiosity, Audrey, alongside Feldman, 22. She assumed the position after Jinkx Monsoon departed with Bleu.
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Each Hyland and Bleu spoke of the present’s private significance with PEOPLE on Monday.
“I’ve been a fan of the musical since I used to be a baby. I imply, it positively formed lots of my love for music theater,” Bleu shares. “After all, Alan Menken and Howard Ashman are simply pure geniuses.”
“The earworms within the present, it is such a cheap present. It does not have any lulls or any boring moments,” he continues, including, “To me, it is only a sensible mixing of the comedy and sheer horror that we love to observe.”
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Hyland provides that she too has “cherished this present since [she] was a child as effectively.” However she confesses to PEOPLE that her love for the Ashman Menken duo started with The Little Mermaid.
“My mother instantly acknowledged that in me and was like, ‘Okay, effectively, now we will transfer on to the Little Store, I don’t care how outdated you might be,’ ” admits the actress. “I simply instantly fell in love with it — and I used to be fortunate sufficient to see the Broadway revival in 2003 as effectively and fell much more in love.”
“It’s been a dream position of mine since I used to be a bit woman, and to return in any case of those wonderful performers of individuals and thespians of all several types of Audreys and Seymours. It’s an incredible wonderful factor to be part of usually — not to mention my dream position,” she concludes.
