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Nick Readies Its Own High School Musical

Nickelodeon, the Viacom-owned kids cable net, is readying a production of "Spectacular!" a music-themed comedy set in high school. Robert Iscove of "She's All That" fame is directing the telefilm with a cast of relative unknowns. The project has been kept below the radar and centers on a preppy high school student who is part of the school's choir at a time when its most talented members have graduated or defected to rival squads.

Nick says "Spectacular!" is not a classic musical and the songs in it will be performance-based rather than those characters who suddenly breaking out into song, like Disney's "High School Musical."

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