In the series premiere of High School Musical: Get in the Picture, Nick Lachey hosts the West Coast auditions, in which teens sing their hearts out to make it to the next round.
The eastern semi-finalists sing and dance hoping to secure a spot in the finals, and the ones selected will perform duets at a theme park in Orlando, Florida. And six competitors get selected to visit the HSM Campus.
West coast semi-finalists dance and sing solo to make the cut. The finalist are paired to do a duet and four must go home.
The finalists must share their first impressions with each other. They visit the set of High School Musical 3: Senior Year where they get a few big surprises.
The finalists perform their hearts out in the middle of a department store. Shock turns into the contestants, when they find out, one will be going home.