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The next best thing besides High School Musical, Hairspray and Rent is THE AMERICAN MALL.

A musical which premiered on MTV last Thursday (I Think), features the producers, choreographers and dancers of High School Musical. The story is about people who works in a mall, a girl wrote a song which catches the attention of a janitor who then falls in love with her. They sang songs and were merry. However like any other, no movies can go on happily ever after, A villain who is this rich brat just like Sharpay who wants everything because she says so. So this villain wants to open her boutique store in her father's mall( the same one), then she wasn't happy with the vacant space given to her and she wants it bigger which means that she has to tear down that girl's store. However that girl retaliated, so she wants to destroy her life, and chase her away. So she stole her boyfriend and made him steal her song... and then the story goes on...

The main concern is that, this is a movie that you definitely have to watch if you cant wait for high school musical. Well the quality may not be as high as HSM, but it is still a good movie. Well you can expect a resemblance to the first high school musical. Anyway... it's the dancers that I want you to look out for because I didn't know this at first, but then I realised that this movie casted a few So You Think You Can Dance contestants.

The one who got the biggest role as one of the janitors is Neil Haskell who is an alumni of SYTYCD 3 (he made it to the top 4). Then there are 4 others you might recognize from SYTYCD 4 and High School Musical.
Kelli Baker (daughter of the choreographer and was rejected at the final callback in Las Vegas and also a major character in HSM as one of the Sharpettes in HSM2)
Matt Dorame (Eliminated during the Top 14 results, never can spot him on HSM but look out for him.)
Gev Manoukian (Eliminated by the Top 10 results, also cannot identify him of HSm but I think he was one of the dancers during "I don't dance", the one who did the head stand at the base)
And finally Thayne Jasperson (Eliminated at the Top 12 results. He is like one of the front dancers for HSM, he was a Brainiac dancer in HSM and the one who got an autograph from Sharpay in HSM2)

I think that the movie must have been shot in Utah because a lot of the dancers were Utahns and it was before the SYTYCD 4 audition started. Anyway, I dont think you can expect these dancers to bein HSM 3 because it was shot during the filming of SYTYCD 4. However, I liked the choreography of the movie, it's really cool, though the music maybe a little doubtful because Most of them who sang are not supposed to sing, they are dancers not singers...