“It feels that much more special because we really deserved it, you know? We really earned it. We made a thing, and they wanted us here,” Galvin said before his Tony Award-winning beau corrected him. “Nobody deserves anything. We’re just lucky and grateful to be here.”
They made the most of their Park City rendezvous as the Molly Gibson- and Nick Lieberman-directed film screened to capacity crowd at the Eccles.
The film’s stars took the stage and performed a musical medley of original songs from the project to a standing ovation.
As summer rolls around again, kids are gathering from all over to attend her scrappy camp in upstate New York, amusingly called AdirondACTS. Her clueless “crypto-bro” son Troy, played by Jimmy Tatro, is tasked with keeping the thespian paradise running while being forced to navigate the drama with the camp’s staff, played by Platt, Gordon, Galvin, Ayo Edebiri, Nathan Lee Graham and Owen Thiele, as they mount a production in Joan’s honor.
“This is very much our passion project and we made it in a very small bubble with people we really love and who are nearest and dearest partners and best friends,” said Platt, who surprised revelers at the film’s official premiere party at Acura Festival Village by performing a karaoke rendition of Hamilton smash “The Schuyler Sisters.” “Now it feels insane and like an embarrassment of riches that it’s here on this amazing platform and there will be a room full of people watching it and maybe someone will distribute it.”
Their wish came true: Searchlight Pictures acquired the project in worldwide deal that includes theatrical for high seven figures.
