High School Musical Reveals Nigeria’s Troy and Gabrielle

   Months of preparations, and endless weeks of auditions; before finally selecting 32 young men and women who have spent many weeks together under a round-the-clock training sessions for music, dancing and acting, by four high profile tutors; Kaffy (dance coach), Tarilla Thompson (director), Stella Damasus (voice coach) and Emmanuel Ayalogu (acting coach). History is now set to be made on Thursday May 27.

   Nigeria’s Troy and Gabrielle, Theodora Odinenu and Minjin Adewale Lawson; two young youths in High School with separate clique mates, who admired each other and later became lovebirds.
They are the world’s first black Troy and Gabrielle. The team at Kidztrust headed by Sheila Okonji Ashinze is in charge of making the event a success, and we learnt the team’s ready to do all it takes to make the Nigerian edition of HSM of international standard.
   To start with, the organizers will be flying in American  singer Young Lloyd from his base in Atlanta for the first time. The young singer’s drop where he made known his intentions to visit Lagos, Nigeria for the highly publicized High School Musical hit the internet sometime last week, and it’s left a lot of kids, teenagers and young adults eagerly anticipating
  The show will be anchored by three talented Nigerian superstars MI, AY and Stella Damasus. Damasus and AY will guide guests through the event on May 27, 2010 in Lagos at the New Expo Hall, Eko Hotel while MI will do the same with the Abuja audience on May 30, 2010 at the Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton.