Hoen whisked him away to finish a quick scene.
“Jo-Bro Alert!” shouted a young production assistant as Joe Jonas, trademark bangs at the ready, burst in from the rain and volunteered, “Ready for action, sir.” “Any Jonas Brother? Going once, going twice.” “Do we have a Jonas Brother in the house?” he called out into the crowd. The genial director Paul Hoen kept smiling as he went with the flow.
Camp rock 1 vs camp rock 2 the final jam series#
And so a night that was supposed to be devoted to an outdoor concert scene shot in the long-dormant Earl Bales Amphitheatre was suddenly rejigged to accommodate a series of fragmentary backstage sequences so as not to waste anybody’s time. Somehow I got past security, but even the upbeat energy of the Jonas Brothers couldn’t change the weather. and Sheppard Ave., pandemonium would have ensued. I mean, if fans knew that Joe and Nick and Kevin were a stone’s throw from Bathurst St. But things weren’t looking quite so optimistic on that summer evening last year when I dropped by to watch it all coming together.įirst off, there was a cloak of secrecy over the location that made getting through Berlin’s Brandenberg Gate during the Cold War seem easy. “There’s music, dancing, laughter and romance and hey, we shot it all in Canada!” “And it’s got everything people love,” enthused co-star Demi Lovato. “We all know what we’re doing a lot better, and that means we can all have a lot more fun,” added brother Nick. Now we’ve had a couple of seasons of our series ( Jonas L.A., also on the Family Channel) under our belts and it doesn’t seem so strange to us any more.” “When we shot the first Camp Rock, we had hardly done any acting at all. “You’ve got to remember something,” Kevin Jonas told me on the night of the film’s gala red carpet opening last month. One of the most entertaining features is watching Toronto actor Daniel Kash channel the dark side of Paul Stanley from KISS as the sneering Axel Turner, mendacious head of Camp Star.Īll of the characters from the first film are back, but there’s a lot more slickly produced singing and dancing, as well as that welcome sense of people settling comfortably into their characters. the new and threatening Camp Star, devoted to empty glitz and glamour. It’s your basic teen summer-camp story, only this time it’s about two rival camps: Camp Rock, the place where “real” people do “real” music, vs. The first Camp Rock, which aired in 2008, is still on the books as the third-highest-rated show in the Disney Channel’s history and hopes are high that this sequel will break all previous records. Thursday night they perform the first of two gigs at the Molson Amphitheatre and on Friday evening, they’ll be on your television screens when Camp Rock 2: the Final Jam goes out over the Family Channel at 8 p.m. When I visited the set of Camp Rock 2 in Earl Bales Park last summer, the Jonas Brothers said goodbye to me with “We’ll be back next year, dude!”
Like all summer relationships, it ended with a promise of “See you in September,” but this time it actually came true.
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