Back from Camp Rock - what a reprehensibly bad show and I have to say that even a community theater who would make this choice (which this was) needs to reexamine those choices because it does no one a lick of good to be in a horribly written show that has no reason for being other than Disney and the people who made what I'm sure was a wretched TV movie for the Disney Channel, wanted to make a buck on their "brand". Sorry, if that's the reason you're making a show, then that show will always be crass and terrible. I actually know one of the two people who adapted this for the stage, and my estimation of this person's talent is what it always was - hack. And the songs are even worse, one dreadful song after another by people who wouldn't know how to craft a song if it hit them in the ASS. Every song ends with the final word of the song. Apparently no one in this part of Disney has ever heard of a button or a rideout or even a complete song, since the majority of the songs last less than 1:30. The production was also not to my liking - here's the deal - design a set wherein you don't have to have the audience sit there for a full ten minutes in act one (over the course of the act, not all at once) and watch a staircase being moved for no reason at all. I can only tell you that in the forty-five years I've been directing professionally, I have NEVER EVER made the audience sit for ten SECONDS during a set change or scene change - it's the first thing I address with the set designer and the creatives, that my shows don't stop - they are fluid. Anyway, I have a headache from it all.
