did i miss the CAMP movie thread?

i realize you big city folks have probably had the film a while and it's old hat, but it just hit the provinces. Given the cameo toward the end, i'm surprised there's not a thread here. Did i miss one?!?!

and does anyone know if Todd Graff is related to singer Randy Graff? also, the music director and score composer is listed as Stephen Trask, is he from HEDWIG fame? a lot of the songs, though, seem to be from Lesley Gore if i read the rather quick credit crawl correctly. Is she still alive?!?!? Trask didn't seem to have written many of the actual numbers...

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yeah, that last name is a little too unusual for two folks to adapt it as a stage name. Robin was very good; i liked how unpretentious the three central performances were. Do you know the backstory on the original songs used for the film? did you go to the workshop version the credits allude to?

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I saw it for my first time last night. It was cute. I really didn't like the ending...but oh well. The songs were amazing! "Here's Where I Stand" was AMAZING!

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I really got to see this movie! Unfortunatly, I live in the middle of nowhere, so the odds of me getting to see it are slim to none.

I found it terribly funny when Fritzie said "Well, she's f*cked, and the show must go on!" or something of the sort. And she was swearing up a storm. It was great, then she broke the glass. I nearly peed myself.

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Updated On: 8/30/03 at 02:23 PM

Yes, it was Ellen. She looked so funny with the wig.

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I also, will not get to see it due to the crappy release dates!

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Updated On: 8/30/03 at 03:51 PM

i need to see it again. and Benzy92, tell "Michael" that he makes a very good woman! he totally fooled me. i didn't know it was him at the end of the movie until i got the cd and watched the little clips...i wish i was a size 4...

xo
whitney

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Don Dixon's "what planet are you people from?" speech should be framed and put on the bedroom wall of every teenager and twenty-something (and opera singer) who posts on this board.

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I'm sure it's Geffen's fault, again.

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Here's the connection:

Todd Graff was a Broadway musical actor, who starred in BABY, among other things. (He also did the workshop of CARRIE, which figures in this history). He is Randy Graff's cousin.

He went to Stagedoor Manor, the camp that the film is about, with Dean Pitchford.

Dean Pitchford (who was a Broadway actor himself, starring in the ill-fated "The Little Prince and the Aviator" with Ellen Green), also co-wrote many of the songs from the movie FAME with Christopher Gore, who is pop star Lesley Gore's brother. (And yes, she's still alive.) Pitchford also wrote the lyrics for CARRIE. The Gores (Michael, Christopher and Lesley) seem to have a great affinity for musical theatre artists, and continue to work with them, and they collaborated on many of the songs for the score of CAMP.

Pitchford also has a DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES connection, in that he wrote the lyrics for "Holding Out for a Hero" for the movie FOOTLOOSE, which was composed by Jim Steinman, but that's another "six degrees" topic.

Updated On: 12/17/04 at 09:26 PM

I will hopefully get the DVD for Christmas. I have not seen the movie yet.

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You couldn't pay me to watch this junk again.

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