Shar Pei is a type of dog. Basically, it’s the Disney way of calling Sharpay a … female dog.

Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale) is the antagonist of High School Musical. She is an arrogant person who always wants her way. She overdominates and likes to be in control even of her brother Ryan. She auditions with him for the winter musical against Troy and Gabriella. When she hears that Troy and Gabriella have a callback, she changes the callback date so Troy and Gabriella wouldn’t be able to get the leads. The plan however fails with the aid of Taylor and Chad who have. Sharpay ends up being the understudy for Gabriella, and in the end, wishes Gabriella good luck by telling her to break a leg. Chad, at one point, calls Sharpay and Ryan “show dogs”; the Shar Pei, a homophone of Sharpay, is a kind of dog. She also makes reference to famous Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim by calling Kelsi “my sawed-off Sondheim”. Despite her resentment of Troy and Gabriella taking the lead from her in the school musical, she seems to have a small crush or interest in Troy. (This interest is more apparent in the trailer for High School Musical 2.)

Ryan Evans (Lucas Grabeel) is Sharpay’s fraternal twin brother, acting partner, and nicer one of the twins. They have starred in seventeen productions together. He seems to have a very developed fashion sense, and dresses very differently then most of the East High students. Ryan isn’t very smart, as shown by his inability to read “Go Drama Club!” on the basketball team’s shirts. He also has a taste for hats, wearing nine different ones during the movie. He seems to be the more submissive of the twins and just goes along with whatever Sharpay says. good question

given a pet name

I hope it’s not because she resembles one. Blechh!!

i don’t no but that is a dumb name