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Theater Geek by Mickey Rapkin7/6/2023 In other words, he is an ideal guide through the mystique, missteps and mischief at a theater-obsessed boot camp where, as Zach Braff's father used to say, "You don't need to bring a mitt. You see? As Second City has been to post-adolescent comedy, Stagedoor Manor has been a seedling ground for the future thespians of America.īut as Mickey Rapkin breezily recounts in "Theater Geek," the summer camp in the Catskills has also been an oasis, a hoot and an escape - "Oz, Neverland, Hogwarts" for any arts-loving youngster who, "for whatever reason, feels other than." Rapkin, a senior editor at GQ and self-described theater geek, lined the walls of his bedroom wall with Playbills in his childhood in Bellmore. Dussel in the attic in "The Diary of Anne Frank." The next year, campers watched Jennifer Jason Leigh limping through the cafeteria in preparation for her Laura in "The Glass Menagerie." Natalie Portman was Sally Bowles in a 1995 "Cabaret," and, in 2000, a teenager named Lea Michele had to leave camp early to do a workshop of a little show called "Spring Awakening." The temptation is to fill this entire space with lists of the famous alumni (or the unknown alumni with famous parents) from Stagedoor Manor, the theater summer camp in the Catskills.
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