Intimidated, Miss Jenn decides to shift East High's production to Beauty and the Beast to compete against her rival. She encounters her high school boyfriend and former stage rival Zack, who has returned to rival school North High to lead the school's drama department in their production of The Little Mermaid, in the hope of winning the Alan Menken Award for high school theater productions.
Miss Jenn oversees the reconstruction of the school theater's stage while planning for their next production High School Musical 2. The East High theater students celebrate the beginning of the holiday break with a performance of ' Something in the Air'.
