director todd graff bring a cast of talented young newcomer ( see the imdb page for this film for cast name ) to this high energy story about a summer at camp ovation and a kind of parris island for theatre art and music and dance ingenue and would be star . the kid aren not nerd but theyre not mainstream youth either . the camp sport counselor be the lonely person on deck . bert and address dismissively by one teen a rummy and be a have be musical theatre composer down on his luck and up on his hooch . his role be as predictable a his redemption . through endless training and rehearsal and show every two week and the teenager both bond and battle . camp follow their developing skill as well a their personal life . issue of sexual identity be explore a be the pain of a first love experience by a slightly overweight but winsome young teen and ellen . the pain of michael and a gay youth who test the envelope by turn up for his junior prom in drag and then be both reject for admission and beat badly and be acutely portray . reject also by his father and the issue of teenage gay emergence isn not exploit and it treat with sensitivity and compassion . the dance number and music of camp be way outside my experience and interest . but i be engross by the unfolding and seamless energy of the young cast . a cameo appearance by stephen sondheim appear to be for the purpose of say and hey and musical theatre be alive . bob fosse vivid vitality live on here and especially in the choreography . to borrow from my teenage son hip argot and camp be an uber upper . positive .