Ally Dawson

"Don't touch my book!"

- Ally, several episodes

Allyson "Ally" Dawson is a 16-year-old talented, aspiring singer/ songwriter who has severe stage fright. She wrote the hit song, "Double Take" that Austin performed in the episode Rockers & Writers, which made him famous. Ally is best friends with Trish, Austin, and also Dez. Her parents are Lester and Penny Dawson. She has always had a passion for music and feels that there's no better way to express what you're feeling.

She is portrayed by Laura Marano.

Personality
Ally is generally, shown to be kind, clever, talented, A student, friendly, passionate, smart, sweet, and caring. She is often described as a good person or a "goody goody." She's against all forms of rule breaking, even insignificant ones such as coloring outside the lines. She is often portrayed as girly, and sometimes meek. Ally, though she is a very talented singer/songwriter, has a severe case of stage fright that keeps her from acheiving her dream of making it in the music business. She has been writing songs since she was little. She got most of her inspiration to keep writing songs from her old music teacher, Miss. Suzy.

Ally is often shown not to be into things most teenagers consider fun, such as arcades, horror movies or pizza parlors, and enjoys slightly unusual activities, such as cloud watching club (as seen in Zaliens & Cloud Watchers),she is more into writing and her father's store. She is very smart. She is somewhat geeky, but constantly tries to hide it when questioned or accused of it, which generally leads to either disasters or her appearing even more geeky.

In Season 2, she's been shown to have been gaining more confidence in herself. In Costumes & Courage, under disguise, she performed a duet with Austin. She was also glad that she was on the cover of Cheetah Beats in Magazines & Made-Up Stuff. Her wardrobe has also noticeably changed in Season 2, wearing things normal teenage girls would wear. She was even brave enough to bungee jump off a bridge, with the help of Austin, Trish, and Dez. She's becoming a bit more sassy, also cool and collected like Austin through the season so far.

Rockers & Writers
Ally writes a song which Austin takes and records a music video without asking. After the music video becomes a hit online, Trish convinces Ally to tell the world she wrote the song. Austin apologizes to her and then Austin convinces Ally to help him out with writing a new song. He gives her credit for both songs and they make a deal to become partners together. Ally embarrasses herself by destroying the set of the Helen Show. Then ends up bumping down Austin video to #2 and making hers #1.

Kangaroos & Chaos
Ally is pressured to quickly write another song for Austin, since it's been over a month since she wrote his last one. She scribbles down Austin's song lyrics in illegible handwriting prompting and Dez starts gathering weird props for the music video which they think correspond to her lyrics.

Secrets & Songbooks
Ally loses her songwriting book, which is also her top-secret diary, so she and Trish search the mall looking for it, unaware that Austin and Dez have already found it and read it, revealing that Ally has a secret crush and leads both the boys to think it is Austin. However, Ally reveals that her crush is actually a boy named Dallas, and her and Austin's misunderstanding is cleared.

Zaliens & Cloud Watchers
Ally wrote a song in which she thinks is the best song ever for Austin. Austin doesn't like it so they decided to hang out to get to know each other better. At the end Ally learned how to have a little fun and she wrote another song for Austin.

Bloggers & Butterflies
A hater known as Miami H8ter girl is blogging bad and embarrassing stuff about Austin. The H8ter Girl is revealed to be Tilly Thompson who wanted to ruin Ally's career by ruining Austin's because she hated Ally for having her song in a play instead of her's. Tilly makes Ally sing The Butterfly Song, in front of many people. Ally had stage fright, but Austin sings it for her instead so that she doesn't have to embaress herself in front of an audience.

Tickets & Trashbags
When Austin gets a chance to perform with the rapper Shiney Money, Team Austin gets excited but after they realize that there is only one ticket, everyone starts fighting for it including Ally even though she said it was totally his choice. Austin said yes to Ally because she talks too much. Ally, Trish and Dez decided to apologize to Austin so they went to the Award show, which puts Ally on stage.

Managers & Meatballs
A manager wanted to replace the whole gang with professional artists, Team Austin is disappointed but Ally was happy for him. She wrote another song for him telling Demonica that Austin doesn't need her to have his dreams come true.

Club Owners & Quinceaneras
When Trish had a quinceanera, Ally decided it was the perfect time to ask Dallas to dance. After he said no, she became sad and disappointed. Austin then cancelled his performance to dance with Ally. But when Dallas sees her dancing with Austin, he regrets what he did.

Deejays & Demos
Ally writes a song for herself, You Don't See Me. The song expresses the pain of the anonymity Ally feels. Austin hears the song and plays it for Miami when he's on the radio with Miami Mack. When Miami Mack wants Austin to bring Ally to sing her song the next day, Ally panics. Trish pretends to be Ally and lip sings to You Don't See Me.

World Records & Work Wreckers
Ally's crush on Dallas grows stronger. She often doesn't know what she is saying when she is around him, which causes her to accidentally tell him she'll mow his lawn for him. Later, when Dallas tells her he hates his job. Ally says "you should worki here (Sonic Boom)". Dallas misinterprets this and thinks it means he is hired at Sonic Boom. Dallas turns out to be a terrible employee and Ally realizes she has to fire him for 3 reasons:

1. He is a terrible employee.

2. Her dad tells her they can't affords a new employee. Trish helps Ally find a way to fire him.

3. He cant go back to the job he quit because Trish already got hired.

In the end, Dallas ends up quitting, and she does not have to fire her crush.

Songwriting & Starfish
Ally, Trish, and Dez help Austin get ready for the Hot Summer Jam Contest on the beach, where he could win a chance to have his song played on the radio. Ally tries to put her previous, unpleasant beach-going experiences behind her. It is revealed in this episode that she and her father often went to the boardwalk and got ice cream when she was little. It is also revealed that her favorite ice cream is Fruity Mint Swirl. In the end of the episode, Ally writes the song, Heard It on the Radio, for Austin.

Soups & Stars
Ally finally gets a Tweeter account but has a problem writing good twits. Ally reunites with one of her favorite elementary school teachers, Miss Suzy, at her soup shop in the mall, Suzy's Soups. Ally thinks of this as a chance to finally get a gold star from Miss Suzy. When Ally tweets a picture of a spider in her soup at Suzy's Soups as an attempt to get more followers, Miss Suzy loses many customers. To make up for it and get a gold star, Ally tries to make a commercial with Austin, Trish, and Dez for Suzy's Soups. She ends up going way overboard. The commercial helps bring back customers and Miss Suzy tells Ally she only gave gold stars to the kids who needed extra motivation and Ally was so smart and talented that she didn't need that. Even though this makes Ally feel better, she still wants gold stars and by the end, she is covered in them.

Burglaries & Boobytraps
A mall thief has been robbing all of the stories in the mall. It is revealed in this episode that Ally is president of the Mall Association. Ally tries to catch the thief after he steals a guitar from Sonic Boom. When Ally and Trish check the security cameras, they see that Austin "stole" the guitar. After confronting Austin, Austin tells her he just went to get it autographed by Bruno Mars because, he felt bad for missing her scheduled meetings. But, Trish already turned him in so she could get the rewards. So now, Ally, Trish, Dez, and Austin must all work together to clear Austin's name. In the end of the episode, Austin catches the thief and they find out it was the mall delivery man.

myTAB & My Pet
Ally leaves her pet parakeet, Owen, with Austin, Dez, and Trish while she waits in line for the new myTAB, but they accidentally let Owen escape.Everyone except Ally creates a plan to get Owen back but it backfired. At the end Ally got a myTAB but Mindy took it away. Owen exposed everything that happened.

Filmmaking & Fear Breaking
Dez filns his first movie called Claws (Dun Dun Dun) and the whole gang jumps in to help. Austin gets the starring role, Trish gets to plays a lot of characters, and Ally offers to help out with the props because she has stage fright. However when it's Austin's turn for his big scene, something triggers a childhood fear of umbrellas and that causes Austin to panic and quit doing Dez's movie. The cause of Ally's stage fright to revealed to Austin.

Diners & Daters
Ally, Austin and Dez all go to the newest diner, where the employees have to sing to the customers. Trish gets a job there, and where Austin gets a crush on one of the waitresses, Cassidy. However, Cassidy turns him down, and Ally tries to help Austin express his feelings for her by writing her a song. Austin tries to describe what he's feeling so she can write lyrics, however, Ally cannot find good lyrics, and goes to Austin for help. He mistakenly sings Cassidy the awful song, and blames Ally for it. They end up arguing while singing, Ally not believing he would accuse her like that, and leaves, leaving Austin feeling bad. He finds her in the music room later, and they make up by "dancing it out" in a goofy fashion, and finishing the song for Cassidy.

Everglades & Ally-Gators
When Team Austin was invited to Shiny Money's Party in the Everglades, the whole gang was very excited because itwas their first vacation together. Ally tried to write a song with Austin but constantly got interupted by Trish and Dez. Because Trish plugged too many things into the outlets, the power went out and Austin and Ally couldn't play the keyboard to finish their song. Later, they see Big Mama attack the boathouse. The boathouse sank because of Dez, however Austin still got to perform and Team Austin dances along to it.

Successes & Setbacks
When Austin might gets the chance to earn a record deal from Jimmy Starr, they work very hard to make an impression, but when Ally overworks Austin, he suddenly can't hit the high notes. Ally tries to cheer up Austin, but it doesn't work as well as she wanted it to. Since she felt bad, Dez and Ally get Austin presents (she got him a scarf with "Austin, Ally, Trish, Dez" on it). Ally also made Austin soup, which she accidentally spilled all over Austin. She later dances when Austin sings and his voice - after surgery - turns out to be fine.

Albums & Auditions
In this episode, Ally's friends, Austin, Trish, and Dez create an audition tape so Ally can get into the music school seen in Filmmaking &amp; Fear Breaking. She passes the audition - only for her friends to realize that the music school is in New York. Austin's album release party is also a going-away party for Ally. When Austin sings an acoustic version of Can't Do It Without You, and a video of Team Austin's (Mostly Auslly moments) memories from the past is shown, Ally decides she wants to stay in Miami because she realizes her dream all along was to make music with her friends.

Season 2:
Costumes & Courage In this episode, Ally is Galexis Nova for Halloween. Austin and Ally write a song called Don't Look Down for Austin to perform at a Halloween party. Ally goes to lunch with Jimmy, where they discuss that Austin will perform the song at the Halloween party with Taylor Swift. She tries to impress a guy named Ethan, whom she saw at the costume store and the Halloween party Ally and her friends go to. Ally pretends to 'borrow' Jimmy's phone to delete a mean text message that Austin sent to him by accident. Ally and Taylor wear the same costume at the party. When Trish and Dez accidentally knock out Taylor, Ally pretends to be Taylor and performs the duet with Austin, without her stage fright getting to her. Dez suggests that Austin and Ally sing together from now on since Ally didn't have stage fright, but Ally doesn't know if she can, for she thought she could only do it because she was pretending to be someone else.

Backups & Breakups
In this episode, when Ally sees Trish and Dez hugging at their lockers, she thinks that they are secretly dating each other. Back at Sonic Boom, Ally confronts Trish about dating Dez. However, Trish tells Ally she is dating Trent, Austin's new backup dancer. Later when Ally sees Trent with another girl, Ally is faced with the difficult decision of telling Trish the truth. Back at the gang's practice, Ally video chats with her mom about whether to tell Trish or not. In this episode, Ally's mom was also featured through video chat.

Magazines & Made-Up Stuff
Throughout the episode, Ally consistently tells Austin that he doesn't need to lie to make himself look good; "just being yourself is enough.". However, once the last event of Austin's fabricated life is done and Meagan Simms declares that she thinks Ally writes amazing songs, Meagan asks Ally how she came up with it. Ally starts to tell the truth, but when Meagan declares that it's boring, she quickly lies, saying that she bungee-jumped off of the tallest bridge in Miami. Once up there, Austin and her jump down together, and all the exaggerations are over.

Parents & Punishments
Ally is visited by Nelson and the rest of his music class, including their music teacher at Sonic Boom. Nelson asks Ally if they can borrow the instruments since the music class's instruments got ruined, and Ally grudgingly says no after her dad tells her that they can't afford to let them borrow the instruments. Nelson and the rest of the class sigh and walk out, and Ally, feeling guilty, tells them to stop, saying that they can use all the instruments. Misinterpreting this, Nelson thinks that Ally said that they could take all the instruments for free, so all the students take the instruments.

After accidentally getting rid of all the instruments, Ally and the rest of Team Austin brainstorm ways to get the money to get all the instruments back before finally thinking of hosting a fundraiser. They then decide that Austin performing will be their main act, but when Austin's bad grades cause him to get grounded to study, he sneaks out to perform, thus earning the required money Ally needed. Unfortunately for Team Austin, Nelson's music teacher thinks that Ally raised the money for HER and thanks her, running off with the money. Due to this, Ally gets in trouble for the first time, and her punishment is not being allowed to read any books for a week.

Note that even though Ally has stage fright, she got up on the stage and spoke to the audience and camera multiple times. This could possibly be because her stage fright has gone away. Also, she wasn't all freaked out when she was featured in Cheetah Beat.

Crybabies & Cologne
She helps get revenge on Trent (Trish's ex-boyfriend). In addition, she was the one who saw Trent with his girlfriend.

Big Dreams & Big Apples
She and Team Austin go to Times Square in New York. She is a big part of the reason Austin gets to perform there.

Austin Moon
Best Friends/Partners/Crush

Austin and Ally are good friends and may have a more-than-friends relationship. Ally really cares about Austin's feelings and hates lying to him, as it is shown in Kangaroos & Chaos Austin also cares a lot about Ally's feelings and was the one who asked Ally to become his permanent songwriter and partner. Austin has been trying to help Ally get over her stage fright. Also, Ally helped Austin to face his fear of umbrellas in Filmmaking & Fear Breaking. Austin and Ally performed the song they wrote together called Don't Look Down in Costumes & Courage. Interviews with the cast say that they will date in later episodes. Ally tells Trish that she likes Austin in Girlfriends & Girl Friends. See Auslly.

Trish
Best Friends Forever

Ally and Trish are best friends. Ally tolerates Trish's craziness and the fact that Trish can't hold down a job. Trish often pushes Ally to do more things as shown in Rockers & Writers. They have been best friends since childhood and both support each other, even though Trish can be a bad listener towards others, mainly Ally. Ally will often save Trish, as shown in Soups & Stars. They also appear to have two different handshakes as shown in  Rockers & Writers & Crybabies & Cologne. But it is also strongly shown that Trish and Ally have a clear and a very well friendship. It is assumed that they have been friends since kindergarden from the episode Bloggers & Butterflies, seeing as when Tilly finishes performing the Ladybug Song, they turn to each other and grimace. Trish also seems to believe Ally, seeing as in Backups & Breakups, when Ally tells Trish that Trent is cheating on Trish, Trish believes Ally, knowing that Ally would never lie to her. Ally's mom even knows Trish well enough that she named a baby gorella after her, because it was lazy.

Dez
Best Freckled Friends

Ally and Dez doesn't show much interaction even though they hang out, maybe due to

Austin being both their friends. Dez gives Ally a ham in Rockers & Writers and he has the idea to read Ally's diary in Secrets &amp; Songbooks. In Soups & Stars, Dez tells Ally that he is her BFF, "Best Freckled Friend." Dez usually helps out Ally in her times of needs but he ends up messing things up even more. Sometimes he teases Ally about being uncool and having nerdy/lame interests. He's always using the instruments in the Sonic Boom uncoventionally, annoying Ally. Dez sometimes unintentionally says things that insult or hurt Ally's feelings, but they are still good friends.

Dallas
Crush/Friends/Ex-Crush

Dallas is Ally's crush. He has been her crush since the episode, Secrets & Songbooks. Dallas has only appeared in 3 episodes so far. It is unknown if he comes back. It is unlikely since there has not been much talk about him lately. (See Dally)

Lester Dawson
Father

Lester Dawson is Ally's dad. They seem to have a very close relationship, although he told Ally that there is one and a bazillion chance to get famous in music. Lester trusts Ally to run Sonic Boom without him there. When Ally was little, she and her dad often went to the boardwalk at Miami Beach and got ice cream. Ally's favorite ice cream was, and still is, Fruity Mint Swirl. Ally and her dad also share a special handshake.

Penny Dawson
Mother

Penny Dawson is Ally's mom. They haven't been seen interacting much on the show due to the fact that Penny lives in Africa, but they have done video chat and Ally asked Penny for advice in Backups and Breakups. Penny will appear in Chapters & Choices. It is unknown if she and Lester are still married or divorced.

Trivia

 * She is scared of spiders and always "silent-screams" when she sees them (as shown in Everglades & Ally-Gators).
 * In Albums & Auditions, we find out she was born in February as revealed by Dez, although the date was not revealed.
 * She is a songwriter.
 * She works at Sonic Boom, her dad's business.
 * She sometimes writes songs for herself and then records them for fun, although she knows she won't be able to perform them.
 * Her favorite food is pickles.
 * She likes cupcakes.
 * She liked the Cha Cha Chicken Pot Pie served at the Melody Diner.
 * She isn't the best dancer.
 * She is a member of a book club.
 * She attended a calligraphy camp.
 * She loves gavelling.
 * She prefers to color inside the lines.Download_(11).jpg
 * Her favorite ice cream since she was a little girl is Fruity Mint Swirl. In fact, she even once called it her "Best Friend" and said "I Love You Fruity Mint Swirl!" in Songwriting & Starfish, when the trio were locked in a freezer.
 * She has the same name as Sonny Monroe from Sonny With A Chance, another show created by Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert. In the show, Sonny's full name was Allison "Sonny" Munroe. Ally's full name is Allyson "Ally" Dawson, which are the same, but the spellings are different.
 * She has a song book that she does not let anyone touch. It's unknown if she still has it.
 * She is a member of the Cloud Watching club.
 * She cleans when she's upset.
 * She has a Tweeter account.
 * She is president of the Mall Association.
 * She admitted to having no social life.
 * She has a pet cockatiel named Owen.
 * She had a goose named Pickles.
 * She is somewhat of a germaphobe.
 * She used to chew on her hair whenever she got nervous.
 * When she gets excited, she tends to ask a lot of questions.
 * She can knit.
 * When she is stressed she has an imaginary friend she talks to named Ms. Pennyworth.
 * Her dad taught her how to play the piano when she was 5.
 * She started ballet when she was 4, although she is still shown to be a very bad dancer.
 * For Halloween 2012, she was Galaxis Nova.
 * She hates it when people talk with food in their mouth.
 * She hates it when people say "liberry'" instead of "library". Allyseason2.jpg
 * She hates the sound that rubbing styrofoam together makes.
 * She and her father have a special handshake.
 * She doesn't like the pizza parlor, arcade or horror movies.
 * She is a fan of Bruno Mars.
 * She owned a stuffed dolphin named Dougie, but she gave it to Austin.
 * She used to wear glasses as seen in her flashback in Filmmaking & Fear Breaking.
 * She auditioned for a music school in New York, and even got accepted, but later gave it up to stay with her friends and family.
 * She can play the piano while texting as seen in the episode Filmmaking & Fear Breaking.
 * She gives instrumental lessons to Nelson.
 * She loves making pro-con lists, as seen in Successes & Setbacks.
 * She gives Jimmy Starr's son violin lessons in Successes & Setbacks.
 * If you look closely at her phone in Soups & Stars and Filmmaking & Fear Breaking, she has a music note on her phone.
 * During Season 1, she admitted that she only goes to one party a year which is Back to School night, as seen in Filmmaking & Fear Breaking.
 * She talks to herself sometimes. Mostly before talking to boys, as seen in Costumes &amp; Courage.
 * She likes the word bungee as seen in Magazines &amp; Made-Up Stuff.
 * She isn't as camera shy as she was during Season 1.
 * Ally's character is similar to Teddy Duncan's character in Good Luck Charlie, another Disney Channel Original Series. They both do things perfectly yet they both are bad dancers. They also both love music.
 * She loves love, just like her mom, Penny Dawson.
 * She believes everyone deserves a second chance, and everyone has goodness inside of them.
 * She isn't scared of preforming if the audience doesn't know who she is. (Costumes & Courage)
 * She is in the music video for Face to Face.
 * She never has really gotten into trouble.
 * A punishment for her is not reading books.
 * The first time she really got into trouble was during Parents & Punishments when she accidentally gave all the instruments away and then accidentally gave all the raised money away too.
 * In Season 2, she was given a new look, her wardrobe is completely different, her hair is curled and she got blonde highlights on the tips of her hair. Her personality is also different too, seeing that she has become more confident in herself. Since Ally is being more confident, she needs to be more confident in her clothes.
 * She is Miss Suzy's favorite student.
 * It is possible she loves school more then music.
 * It seems like Ally did get over her stage fright in Costumes & Courage but she actually didn't. She was only able to perform because people thought she was Taylor Swift, not Ally Dawson.
 * She reveals to have a crush on Austin in the Girlfriends & Girl Friends promo.
 * Despite her stage fright she performed with Austin in Costumes & Courage.