Stock Characters: The Cooking Show (2012)

Get in touch with your inner food. Glee with grit. Lady Gaga meets Mad Hot Ballroom. Tough Indigenous and immigrant youth of color struggle in a music theater/dance boot camp run by a benevolent drill sergeant. MISCELLANEOUS Productions' professional artists collaborate with East Vancouver at-risk youth, working diligently to create and present a hip hop musical satirizing the Japanese Iron Chef television show. Just as all looks promising, the main funding for the play falls through and Dakota, a 15-year-old Indigenous youth performer, disappears. MISCELLANEOUS Productions struggles to replace the funding despite opposition from politicians that deny such work to be a priority. Meanwhile, the young performers strive to achieve some meaning and value in their lives. Will they make it to opening night?