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11.07.2023 - 22:25 / variety.com
Gordon Cox Theater Editor The movie comedy “Theater Camp” is one of those dreams-come-true success stories that sometimes emerge from the Sundance Film Festival: Scrappy indie movie debuts in Park City, the audience falls in love with it, and overnight the movie is picked up for a multimillion distribution deal. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:
But the film’s four co-creators — Molly Gordon (“The Bear,” “Animal Kingdom”), Tony winner Ben Platt, Noah Galvin (“The Real O’Neals”) and Nick Lieberman — faced a lot of skepticism along the way. Gordon, the co-writer, co-star and co-director of “Theater Camp,” detailed the movie’s backstory on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast, and she noted that one of the biggest hurdles was convincing Hollywood that a comedy about theater could be a success.
“They just questioned, how could we make an improvised movie with theater? Is theater something that people even want to watch?” said Gordon, whose inspirations for the movie included improvised comedies like “Waiting for Guffman” and dramas by directors John Cassavetes and Robert Altman. It didn’t help that a lot of the cast of “Theater Camp” is made up of kids, tweens and teens. “It was so hard to get people to understand that kids could improvise,” Gordon recalled. “But I actually think they’re much better than adults, because they’re so free and not in their heads and not jaded.” The four creators of “Theater Camp” all met doing theater — Gordon, for instance, first met Platt at age 3 in a youth theater program — so the stage seemed a natural subject matter for them to skewer, lovingly, in the movie. “The stakes at theater camp are insane,” Gordon said. “You have this three-week period
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Note: Spoilers for “Theater Camp” are included.Searchlight Pictures’ “Theater Camp” is a delightfully fun look at the wacky world of youth theater camps that draws inspiration from some of the best documentary features. “‘Metallica Some Kind of Monster’ or ‘War Room’ [was] a huge influence on us,” codirector Nick Lieberman told TheWrap. “Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Salesman,’ those movies all have moments that are some of my favorite funniest moments in movies.
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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor It’s good to know that Ben Platt and Molly Gordon’s failed childhood romance didn’t keep them from remaining life-long friends. The actors star in “Theater Camp,” a mockumentary about a performing arts summer camp co-directed by Gordon and Nick Lieberman. Said romance bloomed when Platt and Gordon were just 7 years old. “I gave her this charm bracelet as I-guess-we’re-going-to-date-now,” Platt remembers during an appearance on this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast. “She freaked out and told her mom, ‘I’m not ready,’ so I gave it to a different girl. Instead, I gave Molly a picture frame with a picture of me and Molly in it because I was like, ‘Here’s a friendship thing.’ Then she was devastated.”
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