Get Your Head in the Game: CHUCKY KLAPOW
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My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
High School Musical has some of the most memorable dance numbers in DCOM history and choreographer Chucky Klapow is behind some of those moments!
Chucky joins Bart Johnson to discuss what it was like working on the franchise and looks back on the incredible years on set.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Hey, Wildcats. |
| 0:06.1 | This is Bart Johnson, and you're listening to Get Your Head in the Game. |
| 0:15.2 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome back to Get Your Head in the Game. |
| 0:18.5 | Today, we have a very special guest. |
| 0:20.5 | He works side by side with |
| 0:22.1 | the legendary Kenny Ortega and Bonnie's story to bring you some of your favorite high school |
| 0:26.4 | musical dance moments to life. His career has been nothing short of incredible and I cannot wait |
| 0:32.6 | to dive into his journey. Please welcome my friend, Chuckie Claypow. |
| 0:38.0 | Chuckie! |
| 0:39.0 | What's up? |
| 0:40.2 | Oh, man, always good to see you, man. |
| 0:41.8 | How are you doing? I feel good, man. How are you? You are, you know, Chuckie, if you didn't work so dang much, we'd hang out all the time, you know? I know. We're both in L.A. and you are always out of town or on tour or shooting something or rehearsing something. |
| 0:54.4 | It's like, dude, you work a lot, right? |
| 0:56.8 | Like you are non-stop. always out of town or on tour or shooting something or rehearsing something it's like dude you work |
| 0:56.0 | a lot right like you are non-stop yeah i've been pretty busy it's been great how have you been i've been good |
| 1:03.1 | i've been good i'm down here in mexico city right now down here for a few days i was just there i was just |
| 1:07.8 | in mexico city working with a pop group oh no oh that would have been so fun, man, to hang out down here. Chucky, but first of all, just let me say, thank you, brother. Thank you for doing this. Thank you for giving your time to the fans that we love so much. We love them so much. Yes, we do. And happy 20 year anniversary. I decided, do we need to do this at least every year there's a five or a zero on the end? |
| 1:31.2 | You know, Yes, we do. And happy 20 year anniversary. I decided, do we need to do this at least every |
| 1:28.4 | year there's a five or a zero on the end. You know, like, recap, man. Check in. It's so cool that |
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