Thanks for the recommendation! I just caught up with this 2022 Disney+ movie. Rueby Wood plays Nate, about the only 13-year-old in Pittsburgh who's memorized the lyrics to ''Corner of the Sky'' (and has a show poster of ''Redhead'' with Gwen Verdon on his bedroom wall). Nate journeys to New York to audition for ''Lilo & Stitch: The Musical'' at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The cast includes Aria Brooks, Joshua Bassett and Lisa Kudrow, plus Broadway's Brooks Ashmanskas, Priscilla Lopez, Michelle Federer and Norbert Leo Butz, who tosses off an inside ''Wicked'' joke.
The movie was written and directed by Tim Federle, who based it on his book and produced ''High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.''
Disney+ oughta keep streaming ''Nate''; it's a valentine to teenage theater fans, but also it's stacked and packed with so many Disney tie-ins. |
