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Video: The Teen Critics Take a Trip to Theater Camp
May 17, 2024
We are kicking off the series with Charles (15), Sofia (15), and Liora (14), who recently headed to a special screening of Searchlight Pictures' new release, Theater Camp, now playing in select theaters. Curious about what they thought of the film?Find out in this video!
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Welcome to the first rehearsal of Joe and Still
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I'm not going to sugar coat it. Emotionally, physically, and spiritually, this is our most complicated piece we've ever tried to do
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Most ambitious. Now, we only have three weeks to create a masterpiece
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It's on you now. It's up to you. So that's on your shoulders as well as Joan's well-being and her legacy
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All on you. But you so deserve it on every level. You guys are so talented
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So unbelievable. This will break you. This will fully destroy you. When Joan Rubinsky, the beloved founder and director of the Adirondacks Theatre Sleepaway
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Camp, falls into a coma during a student performance of Bye Bye Birdie, her business influencer
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son Troy is rocketed into a position that he is completely unprepared for
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Troy, along with beloved camp counselors slash best friends Amos Klobuchar and Rebecca
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Diam are in for the summer of their lives as friendships are reformed, songs are sung
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and problems are solved, all while trying to write and stage a musical tribute to their
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camp's late founder. Regrettably no, I haven't been to a summer camp like the one in the movie
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I have been to a theatre camp, but it was nothing like the one in the movie
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I've been going to French Woods Festival for now three years. I'm actually going tomorrow for session two and session three
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So if you see me, go say hi. I will be friends with you because all of you guys are cool
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I go there. But yeah, it's an amazing place and I found a lot of similarities between that camp and
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this theatre camp in the movie. I do go to a theatre camp in New York City and have been every summer for about nine years
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So I can certainly relate to the kids in the movie in the way that I've made lifelong friendships
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with friends and castmates who I get to see every year. The character I was most able to relate to was definitely Darla, even though she does
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give off very much Rachel Berry vibes, if you know who that character is
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She just seems like a really sweet girl who has really big dreams and she just reminded
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me a lot of me. I saw a lot of myself in her
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I think the one that I relate to most is Alan Park, played by Alan Kim
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Instead of going to dance and acting classes each day as the other campers do, he spends
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his day making calls to presumably fake producers, acting as an agent and trying to get his client
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the star of the camp's biggest musical, signed. As someone who takes an interest in the parts of musical theatre beyond just performing
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I can totally relate to this kid who can't wait to be grown up
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I would totally recommend this movie. I was laughing so hard the entire time and I was nudging my mom like, oh my god, did
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you get that joke? Did you get that joke? Oh my god, this is literally like French Woods. Oh my god, this was so funny
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I think non-diehard theatre fans will definitely still love the movie Theatre Camp
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Even if theatre is not your passion, you've almost definitely been to a sleepaway camp
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fought with your best friend, felt like an outsider at some point in your life, and all
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of these very important themes are really even more central to the movie than its theatre references
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Yes, I would love to go to a theatre camp like this. I mean, does anyone have the nearest sign-up sheet
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No, but I mean, I would love to be surrounded in an environment of peers as well as adults
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who just love theatre as much as I do. It seems like so much fun and such a supporting environment, you know
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I would definitely want to spend a summer at Adirondacks. It seems like all the kids who do have such great memories and great friendships that
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come out of there. However, I don't know if I would have wanted to have been there during the particular summer
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that's pictured in the movie. Maybe during the heyday of the camp when Joan was the head instead of Troy, who doesn't
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really seem to know what he's doing. Plus, the camp does seem to be physically and spiritually falling apart during this
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particular summer. Theatre Camp is playing now at a movie theatre near you
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Make sure to check back later for more from Broadway World's brand new series
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