Sunday, April 13, 2008

Arielle Jacobs stars in High School Musical

If the producers of the national tour of "High School Musical" were trying to dream up the right actress for the role of Gabriella Montez - the smart, quiet newcomer to East High School who aspires to break free and sing in the school musical - they could hardly have asked for a more perfect match than Arielle Jacobs.

A native of Half Moon Bay, Jacobs was 14 when she moved with her family from California to Princeton, N.J., just as she was to start high school, so she knows what it's like to be the new girl in town.

"Fortunately for me, there were two middle schools in Princeton," she says, laughing. "So everyone just thought I was from the other middle school."

Read more on the SF Chronicle website.

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