Realize Your Beauty isn’t packed with aspiring Audra McDonalds, Billy Porters and Sutton Fosters. “It’s not theater kids, necessarily,” Merkl said over coffee a few days before camp began. “Some of the kids love theater. Some of them are totally new to the theater, but their parents think that they could benefit from this. We are doing theater, but this is not a camp for them to come and learn Shakespeare.”Elise Arndt, a veteran theater camp counselor who flew in from Orange County, Calif., said: “Not all of them are going to be gung-ho theater people.

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Persons: Audra McDonalds, Billy Porters, “ It’s, ” Merkl, ” Elise Arndt, ” Arndt, Kirkland Organizations: Girl Scouts of Locations: Sutton, Orange County, Calif, New York City, Girl Scouts of America