Thanks to great performances and sharp, knowing jokes, the winning musical theater farce Theater Camp should have a long and successful run playing for Broadway nerds. JacobOller's Sundance2023 review:
find yourself saying, “Oh no, it’s Evan Hansen.” You might even say, “Look, it’s Tony-winning nepo baby Ben Platt, an ex-Evan Hansen who is now engaged to the actor who replaced him on Broadway as Evan Hansen .” If you say any of those things, you’re immersed enough in the world of musical theater to get a kick out of. If you say the last one, mouthful that it is, you’re exactly obsessed enough to appreciate the rapidfire, insular, dweeby humor hurled at you by the loving farce.
AdirondACTS is the scrappy upstate New York theater camp created by the writing team of Platt, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman and Noah Galvin . Gordon and Platt are childhood friends, while Lieberman directs Platt’s music videos. It’s obviously a tight group who grew up in the industry, and their shared sense of humor and appreciation for their form keep things consistent as they expand their short film.
. A human tank top, the wannabe investment influencer has to lead AdirondACTS to a successful summer with his beloved camp founder mom in the hospital. The film’s wobbly set-up for a generic premise shouldn’t dissuade you. It lands on its feet. Like most of the movie, the substance isn’t what wins you over—it’s the delivery.
The “plot” couldn’t matter less, but it succeeds by leaning on two excellent performers: Tatro, heartfelt and meatheaded, and Patti Harrison, who is a scenestealer as always as his nemesis. As they vie for control of the camp, counselors Amos and Rebecca-Diane —as well as underappreciated stage manager Glenn and a charming crew of caricatures—must try to stifle their own ridiculousness in order to pull off the greatest show of the summer.
And that’s the experience of the camp, hopping from class to class as they prepare their inane, pretentious productions for the end of the season and the inevitable showcase proving to folks with money that they deserve to exist. Sometimes the gags are ridiculously specific and all the more wonderful for it. Sometimes its trite camp-movie tropes and stale failed-performer character moments flop.
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