June/July/Aug 2010

Theater Geek: The Real Life Drama of a Summer at Stagedoor Manor, the Famous Performing Arts Camp

Iris Brooks


Theater Geek:

The Real Life Drama of a Summer at Stagedoor Manor, the Famous Performing Arts Camp

by Mickey Rapkin

Free Press

$25.00 List Price

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Child actors exert a droll fascination. The contradictions of the profession—flamboyant personalities and Spartan discipline, the extrovert’s desire to perform amid constant rejection—blossom in even its youngest members. In Theater Geek, Mickey Rapkin, a senior editor at GQ, spends a summer among this unusual breed at Stagedoor Manor, a renowned performing-arts camp in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Rapkin, whose previous

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