Word: arthurians
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...courtship by besieging the great castle at Tintadel-and by being transformed (a simple job for Merlin) into the likeness of Gorlois, which let him dally with the hoodwinked lady. At length Gorlois was killed and Uther married Igerne. From this union sprang King Arthur, and from the Arthurian legend sprang Camelot, the hottest ticket on Broadway. See THEATER...
...Pellinore becomes a chattering burden in the court and Morgan le Fay a darting disaster in the forest. Richard Burton, playing Arthur with a touch of inwardness beyond the call of musicomedy duty, alone ever seems three-dimensional-which only stresses how pasteboard are all the others and un-Arthurian is everything else...
Lerner's book, based on the novel The Once and Future King by T. H. White, renders the Arthurian legend in humorous, gentle, and somewhat modern style. It traces the history of Camelot from its formation to its breakup on account of Guinevere's attraction for Lancelot, with just the right proportions of boisterousness and pathos...
Lerner's Parsifal. In adapting T. H. White's The Once and Future King the whole glorious frieze of Arthurian legend and the Middle Ages spread by a writer with the rarely combined gifts of levity, scholarship and poetry Lerner and Loewe have unquestionably taken on the greatest and heaviest theme that has ever been attempted in the field of musical comedy (Loewe tried to read the book, did not finish it). Treated seriously, the story could only be a musical tragedy, about a king who loses his wife to his best friend, loses his life under the sword...
...producers, with $3,000,000 of other people's money and their own reputations to safeguard, they have to worry about everything from the color of Julie Andrews' hair (too light) to King Pellinore's visor (will not fall shut on cue) to the inner mists of the Arthurian theme...