Disney to Premiere Short-Form HSM Doc Series

BURBANK, October 25: Beginning this Saturday, October 22, Disney
Channel will debut High School Musical: The Music In You, an unscripted short-form series of 12 interstitials
following a student theatre company in Fort Worth, Texas, as they learn to
express themselves through music and the arts.

Produced and directed by Academy Award-winning documentary
filmmaker Barbara Kopple, High School Musical: The Music In You is a special Disney Channel presentation in
association with the nonprofit NAMM Foundation. After its initial debut on
Saturday, October 22, the short-form series premieres every Sunday on Disney
Channel and culminates in a half-hour “documusical” featuring the opening night
of the H2O production of Disney's High School Musical on Sunday, January 20 at 8 p.m. The short-form series will also be presented in Disney DXD
on www.DisneyChannel.com and available on Sprint TV beginning in November.

The H2O production of High School Musical: On Stage was presented in association with Musical Theatre
International (MTI) and Disney Theatrical Productions. High School
Musical: The Music in You is a production
of Cabin Creek Films. Disney Channel had teamed with the NAMM Foundation to
launch Disney's High School Musical School Grant Program, an initiative that
allows for middle and high schools across the U.S. to apply for a grant to
cover all licensing costs associated with producing their own in-school stage
show, and to receive a cash grant that will help support additional teaching and
production needs to enhance educational opportunities.

Rich Ross, the president of Disney Channel Worldwide, said:
"I'm excited by everything High School Musical has become and am honored to welcome Barbara Kopple
back to Disney Channel to do what she does best. She lets her film's subjects, the members of the theater
company, tell the story of how music theatre becomes a wonderful experience and
an opportunity for self-expression for them. We're eager to share her work and their experience with kids
and families everywhere and, together with the NAMM Foundation, encourage
creativity and innovation in our schools and in our culture."

—By Irene Lew