MTV dances with 'Mall' crowd

December 21, 2007 The project, from "High School Musical" producers Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush, will premiere in the summer on the cable network, followed immediately by a release on DVD. Bulgarian-born actress Nina Dobrev and Rob Mayes lead the ensemble cast of the musical, a romantic comedy-drama set at a mall that centers on high school graduate Ally (Dobrev), a singer-songwriter battling to save her mother's music store and to keep the boy she loves, Joey (Mayes), a musically gifted young janitor who fronts a garage band. Choreographer and stage director Shawn Ku, who made his film directorial debut with the quirky musical Sundance short "Pretty Dead Girl," is directing.

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