You can use it when you meet Robert Downey Jr:
LOCH SHELDRAKE — You know how to get to Carnegie Hall, right? “Practice, practice, practice” goes the old joke.
But if you want to get to Broadway or Hollywood, you can do what Natalie Portman, Jon Cryer, Robert Downey Jr., Jennifer Jason Leigh, Josh Charles and scores of other showbiz folks have done for the past few decades. You turn left on Karmel Road off Route 52 in Sullivan County's Loch Sheldrake and head to Stagedoor Manor, the premier performing arts camp.
“Exactly,” says Charles, who stars in TV's “The Good Wife” and notes that one of his Stagedoor camp-mates – and friends – is Shawn Levy, who directed films like “Date Night,” “Night at the Museum and “The Pink Panther.
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Stagedoor Manor is where thousands of kids have learned everything from set design and stage combat to advanced acting and playwriting during a daily schedule that begins at 8 a.m. and ends at 10 p.m.
So many Stagedoor campers have made it in show business – Zach Braff, Mary Stuart Masterson and Amy Ryan are a few more – alumni joke about the “secret Stagedoor handshake” that opens the door to jobs in film or theater.
Read all of Steve Israel’s story, Acting stars trace roots back to Sullivan camp, in the Times Herald-Record. Registration not required but recommended for regular readers of this blog.
Photo by Dawn J. Benko for the Times Herald-Record.
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