![]() ![]() Rapkin references several trial productions of “high school versions” of musicals: High School Musical, Sweeney Todd, and Rent. Casting directors regularly attend camp performances looking for kids to put on the Disney Channel or Broadway. The history touches on many of Stagedoor’s famous alumni: actors Jon Cryer, Natalie Portman, Lea Michele, Robert Downey, Jr., and Zach Braff playwrights Nicky Silver, Charles Busch, and Jonathan Marc Sherman. The book combines a history of the camp with a present-day account of three recently-graduated seniors in their last session at Stagedoor Manor, a sleepaway camp in the Catskills. Mickey Rapkin’s Theater Geek made me nostaglic for the summers I spent at theater “camp.” It was the first time I felt like I truly belonged with a group of my peers. Playing a 20-person game of “This is a Watch” successfully was a source of great excitement. Four evenings a week, kids from 12 to 17 spent three hours acting, singing, dancing, and bonding in the way theatre people do. ![]() The Stage Door Workshop in Allentown, Pennsylvania was a six-week summer program that combined theatre classes with the mounting of a full-scale musical production. In the spring of my eighth grade year, my mother found a summer activity that became a pivotal part of my adolescence. ![]() Theater Geek: The Real Life Drama of a Summer at Stagedoor Manor, the Famous Performing Arts Camp ![]()
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