Theater Camp is based on the real-life experiences of its stars Molly Gordon and Ben Platt.
is concentrated on a primal urge: the unquenchable desire to get on a stage and perform. It’s set in the Adirondacks, the upstate New York region familiar to filmgoers as the home of the summer camp movie. This camp, however, scorns outdoor pursuits. The regulars ostracise anyone who does so much as look at a football. All their energies are devoted to the musical they produce each year.
, Christopher Guest’s celebrated tribute to a similarly obsessive group of dog lovers, but it was inspired by the childhood experiences of Gordon and Platt and the summer school where they first met. Their cast, composers and co-writers are all friends and the whole exercise has an exuberance that speaks of many delirious days and nights of rehearsing, refining and improvising around a piano.
Amos has already taken against him, having observed his complete indifference to the showbiz ethos, and even worse, he’s a fan of hip-hop. But Troy can get his head around a financial statement and he’s learnt the bank is about to foreclose on the camp’s loan. As a result, he’s been talking to a suit from the corporation in charge of the camp’s deadliest rival, a nearby camp full of rich kids in chinos and polo shirts who do like ball games.
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