Cool at Camp is a pleasant enough community theater piece. It probably has a future being done at musical theater camp for high school kids and might be further restricted to only Jewish high school kids since there are many ethnic jokes and some antisemitic characters that would be considered very inappropriate if produced by a different ethnic group. But even with those warnings, camp cool is pretty vanilla.

Every time the book touches on a controversial subject, whether it is antisemitism, bullying (goy on Jew or Jew on goy), teenage sexuality, or adult abdication of responsibility, it is quickly passed over. The songs are pretty pedestrian. No one is coming out of the production singing them. But it is a show that entertains and is safe for its intended audience and, in that way, it is accomplishes everything it was ever intended to.

The show only has Scott Berkowitz and a couple of the better trained young actors that would be in the show if it somehow transferred for an off-Broadway run. Most would suffer the fate of the Fringe Festival cast of the festival hit Walmartopia twenty years ago. At the Fringe, they had a cast that had been with the show for years. When it transferred to the Minetta Lane, only one cast member survived. The cast of Cool at Camp is of similar preparation and skill.

The show at MITF produced a lot of happiness and pride in the participants, their families and friends and sometimes that is enough.