The film follows the staff (played brilliantly by Gordon and Platt) as they try to keep the camp afloat after the founder falls into a coma during a one-woman show about Evita . The kids are weird. The counselors are broke. The original musical they are scrambling to put together? It’s about a pizza place that gets turned into a tech startup. It’s terrible. It’s brilliant. It’s exactly the kind of unhinged, self-serious nonsense that happens when you give teenagers a budget and a lighting board. Without spoiling the best running gag in years, let’s talk about the documentary crew asking a precocious 11-year-old, "Who is your favorite actress?"
There is a specific, sacred smell in the air during the first day of theater camp. It’s a potent mix of dusty stage curtains, E6000 glue, nervous sweat, and the faint hint of desperation that comes from trying to paint a 20-foot flat for Annie in under four hours. Theater Camp
Her answer isn't Meryl Streep. It's a deeply obscure Broadway understudy from the 1990s. The film follows the staff (played brilliantly by
Watch Theater Camp anyway. It is a masterclass in ensemble comedy (the "Camp Isn't Home" musical number is worth the rental price alone). But more than that, it is a story about found family. The original musical they are scrambling to put together
If you know that smell, you’re going to love the new mockumentary Theater Camp .