At 6 pm, fans were arriving to the stands at the New York State Fair for teen popster Jordan Pruitt and Disney's 'High School Musical' stars Vanessa Hudgens, Corbin Bleu, and Drew Seeley. There were teens and parents all over. Everyone was hyped and all dressed up in the artists' merchandise. The stands were filled all the way to the last row. At about 7 pm, the announcer came out and got everyone hyped for the show to start.
Jordan Pruitt was the first to start getting the crowd pumped by singing her song from Disney's Jump In movie "Jump To The Rhythm". The crowd started to go crazy and sing along. She sang songs from her new album " Permission To Fly" that included " My Shoes", "One Love", " In Love For A Day" and "I'm Gone". Jordan really connected with the audience. She made everyone stand up and sing along with her. Even her mom came out on stage and took some pictures. Even though Jordan sang with backtracks, she was still 100% live and started the show off to an amazing start.
After a 15 min break, Drew Seeley was ready to rock the stage and started to perform his hit " Dance With Me" that got everyone singing and dancing along. He did a dancing breakdown during DWM by him self and got the crowd cheering. Drew spent time telling the crowd about his new movie coming out and even let fans call him on this fan phone. For part of Drew's set, he sang live with backtracks the the rest of the set, he performed with a band. He sang a few of his songs "Get to Know Ya", "Crush", and 2 new songs from his movie Another Cinderella Story " Just That Girl" and "X-Plain It To My Heart". Throughout every song, Drew commanded the stage and caused all the fans screamed the whole time. Drew closed with a fan favorite, "Getcha Head In The Game" from High School Musical that got the crowd singing and dancing with the lyrics. Drew put on a spectacular performance that, made him one of the crowd favorites.
Corbin Bleu came on next with and opening that referred to his new movie Freestyle. Corbin and his dancers wore motorcycle outfits with helmets, with the fog and the lights making it a really neat opener. Corbin took off his helmet and everyone just screamed as loud as they could. He opened up with "We Come To Party" which was the perfect song to start out with cause everyone just sang and danced along Corbin really caught the audience's attention with his killer dance moves and singing. Other songs that Corbin sang were "Roll With You", Mixed Up" Before he sang "She Could Be", Corbin called a fan and invited her up on stage. He sang to her and also danced with her which had to be the highlight of her life! Corbin also sang "Deal With It", "Never Met A Girl Like You", a fan favorite "Run It Back Again", He also sang 2 new songs "Lets Go Crazy" and "The Moments That Matter". Corbin disappeared behind the curtains and a minute later, Corbin came back out and sang 2 encores " Push It To The Limit" and "Marchin" which got the crowd hyped for even more. After Corbin finished, the crowd just sat around and got excited while the road crew set up the stage for Vanessa.
After a 20-25 minute wait, a background came up saying VGround and Vanessa came out while the crowd went crazy. V. opened with "Sneakernight". She totally lip-synced on it but had great dance moves! She sang a bunch of songs off her new album "Identified",which were "Amazed", "Identified", "Don't Ask Why", "Last Night", "First Bad Habit"and "Hook It Up". Vanessa had stunning outfits, that really matched some of the songs and the dance moves were just Wow..Awesome!. Throughout the set, V. sang some fan favorites like, "Gotta Go My Own Way" which she changed clothes through the beginning and sang the rest live, also "Lets Dance" and "Say OK" "Never Underestimate A Girl" was definitely a crowd favorite that V. let all us girls know that we can rock out too. Both Vanessa and the dancers made the show worthwhile.
Overall, it was a really good concert! The artists really had a unique flair, from clothing attire to dance moves and just connecting with the crowd. This is definitely a show to check out when it comes to a city near you, if not, you can just buy the artists music and rock out to it!
Shannon Lyons is a staff writer for Musiqtone.com. You can reach her at shannonlyons@musiqtone.com.
