‘Theater Camp’ Cast Didn’t Recognize Noah Galvin in Finale Makeup (Video)

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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.

The challenge was how can you create that feeling, or create that spirit or write to that spirit?”Ben Platt and Noah Galvin play two of the teachers working with the camp’s budding actors.

They also worked on the film’s original songs (with Galvin also acting as cowriter on the script). “This movie is an amalgam of all of us,” Galvin said. “The characters we play are little scrapbooks of all of the teachers and theater people that we’ve collected along the way.” And everyone used their knowledge of Broadway musicals to craft together their pitch-perfect finale: a full-scale musical tribute to the fictional camp’s founder, Joan (Amy Sedaris).

To craft the musical, entitled “Joan, Still,” Galvin, Platt, Mark Sonnenblick and Molly Gordon drew from numerous filmic inspirations to write the numbers.“I put together a list of references for each of the numbers, like, the song wants to feel like ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ meets ‘Hello, Dolly,'” said Platt.