'Theater Camp' isn’t so much a love letter to theater geeks as it is the diary of one.
isn’t so much a love letter to theater geeks as it is the diary of one.
It still can feel like a revelation to learn that the diary isn’t a personal one, but a shared one; that there is a passionate, unabashed population that understands every reference in the film, from the self-important drama club acting techniques to each musical theater song a camper sang in their audition—and why it was an embarrassing choice. We have been every kid at that camp, and, at times, every adult working there.
By the time the film ended, with an uproariously inappropriate original musical for the prepubescent kids performing it , the applause in the screening was so enthusiastic and so knowing that one wondered if it would mutate to a clap in time to the break down at the end of “Seasons of Love” fromhits on so exactly is the lifelong imprint this passion has on this community, in a way that thrills with the same intensity the cast harmony does at the end of the, for those who get it—and might leave...
Maybe the bug caught you young, and you found yourself at a place like AdirondACTS, the upstate New York haven where, in, precocious and preternaturally talented preteens go to belt out Andrew Lloyd Webber songs. Maybe you did some hoofing on the boards of your high school’s stage.seemed real, and you refuse to let go of it. Or, if you’re a healthy enough person to have let go, perhaps you still allow yourself the pleasure of absolute musical theater obsession.
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