Get Your Head in the Game: KENNY ORTEGA

Magical Rewind

My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts

Tv & Film

4.7 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Who better to wrap up this amazing season of Get Your Head In the Game than the leader of the Wildcats himself... Kenny Ortega!

Kenny talks about the process of how the film came to him, the phenomenon behind the franchise and how is has changed his life and meant so much to him.

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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.
0:13.8	Hi, everybody.
0:14.8	Today we've got a very special guest joining us.
0:16.8	Someone whose creative vision and passion brought one of the most iconic teen franchises of all time to life.
0:23.8	He is the mastermind behind the unforgettable music, the moves, the magic, and yes, the wildcats.
0:29.9	Please give a warm wildcat.
0:31.9	Welcome to the award-winning director, choreographer, and the man who helped the generation get their head in the game,
0:38.4	the one, the only, Mr. Kenny Ortega.
0:40.8	I can't believe this day has happened.
0:42.1	My dear friend, the great, the, the center of our high school musical universe, the person I have more gratitude for, gosh, I'm such a baby.
0:56.3	Aw.
0:58.1	I love you, man, and your family.
1:00.6	Your mother was my hairstylist for my first motion picture.
1:04.3	I met you guys when you were kids, you and your brothers, you know?
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:08.5	We go way back.
1:09.6	We go way back.
1:10.4	We go back, way back. We weren't going to go way back. We go way back. We go back, way back.
1:12.3	We weren't going to go way back.
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