[Marxism] Stagedoor

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Besides the subject matter (teenagers at summer camp), the 2005 
documentary "Stagedoor", now available in home video, has other 
things in common with "Jesus Camp". Like the budding rightwing 
evangelists in "Jesus Camp", the aspiring Broadway performers at the 
Stagedoor Manor are on a mission. They are fanatically devoted to 
what is arguably a dead art, namely the classical musical comedies of 
the 1920s through the 1960s. Of course, between a religious cult 
devoted to shame, abstinence and the worship of mammon and the U.S. 
military and a cult around the songs of Rogers and Hammerstein, there 
is no contest. One celebrates death while the other celebrates life and love.

full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/stagedoor/


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