![]() ![]() ![]() I felt like a kid again: "What if no one likes me? What if I don't have any friends?" These are some intimidating 18-year-old kids. What was it like packing your bags and heading to summer camp at age 31? There was no show, there was no costume he just found this feather boa in the costume shop and thought, 'I would like to wear this on the first day of camp.' I looked at these kids and thought, 'Wow, I was born in the wrong era.' (See TIME's 2010 summer entertainment preview.) I showed up at Stagedoor and I saw this 12-year-old boy wearing a feather boa walking around on the first day of camp just because. So you could really relate to where these kids were coming from. I would go to the theater by myself, take the train into Manhattan as a high school kid to go see Sondheim's Passion. I hung playbills up on the wall in my bedroom. He talked to TIME about his own stage dreams, fitting in at camp and how campers walk away from Stagedoor with so much more than just stars in their eyes. In Theater Geek, Rapkin, an editor at GQ, follows three campers in their final summer before real life hits. Deusel in a 1976 production of The Diary of Anne Frank, Natalie Portman performed Cabaret in 1996 and Zach Braff donned bejeweled leather pants in Godspell long before he ever wore scrubs. ![]() But it wasn't just any camp it was Stagedoor Manor, one of the nation's most prestigious theater camps, located in upstate New York. Follow age 31, Mickey Rapkin packed his bags and headed to summer camp. ![]()
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