Stagedoor Manor, a performing arts camp in the Catskills, helps turn kids with dreams into working actors. In Mickey Rapkin's new book Theater Geek, some famous alums look back.
LEA MICHELE
The Glee star (in Side by Side by Sondheim in '99) remembers singing "Tomorrow" in the camp cabaret: "I discovered I could belt-I had a chest voice! My voice changed in that one minute, and I never went back. It's still one of my proudest moments."
JOSH CHARLES
"My first manager saw me in a play at Stagedoor when I was 12," says the Good Wife star (above left, in 1985). "I remember telling my dad, 'Somebody thinks I'm talented.' I'm not a sentimental person, but at the end of the summers I remember feeling incredibly sad."
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