With a marching band, balloon arch and an excited student body, East High School welcomed back “High School Musical” director Kenny Ortega on Wednesday afternoon. The following day, before a dramatically different audience, Ortega was greeted by booming applause at Silicon Slopes’ annual Summit.
“This is my dancing cane. I’m still dancing,” the 75-year-old director joked, lifting his cane as he took the stage in East High’s auditorium.
Memories flooded Ortega from the moment he arrived at the front of the school, he told East High students. It has been more than two decades since Ortega directed the first “High School Musical” at the Salt Lake City high school, where he later returned to complete the franchise…