Fat Camp
Opening Night: April 12, 2012
Closing: May 13, 2012
Theater: American Theater of Actors
The producers of Jersey Boys and Rock of Ages have come together to bring you a hilarious new musical that’s gonna be huge — Fat Camp. It’s the story of a rock ‘n’ roll rebel and the place where he proves he’s more than meets the eye: Camp Overton. This clever and quirky comedy was a smash hit at the New York Musical Theatre Festival where it won "Best of Fest." Now you can see this delicious new musical about first love, second chances and lasting friendships.
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May 9, 2012
Too much artificial sweetener has been stirred into “Fat Camp,” a new musical at the American Theater of Actors about teenagers singing their way to slimmer waistlines. This sentimental cartoon hopscotches through the usual teen-angst territory in its depiction of a camp full of misfits confronting familiar anxieties — the dawning and crushing of crushes, the miseries inflicted by the popular kids — as they try to avoid temptations their slimmer peers don’t have to worry about, like candy bars.
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May 1, 2012
‘Glee” meets “Hairspray” in “Fat Camp,” a diverting musical about a group of overweight teens who find love and friendship at Camp Overton, where “You’ve got nothing to gain and everything to lose!”
READ THE REVIEWMay 4, 2012
There’s a certain strain of Off Broadway show defined by a super-specificity of topic and a clappy-happy vagueness of style, usually sporting the title of Something: The Musical. The subject doesn’t matter (it could be anything from The Jerry Springer Show to a bowel obstruction with an intermission) as long as it has a full tracklist of guitar-driven theater anthems, a few too many smoke machines, and a shiny self-reflective veneer of genre awareness. I’d say it wouldn’t be long until we see Musical: The Musical, but isn’t that pretty much what Smash is?
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April 30, 2012
The committed work of a troupe of truly talented young actors brings much needed heft to Fat Camp, an always amiable, periodically sparkling new musical, now at the American Theatre of Actors under Casey Huchion’s fast-moving direction.
READ THE REVIEWApril 29, 2012
Fat Camp is a silly, exuberant musical that comes at you like an ice cream truck and doesn’t slow down.
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