Word: camelot
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...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...
...Camelot (book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; music by Frederick Loewe; based on The Once and Future King by T. H. White) could scarcely fail to suffer from its huge pre-Broadway buildup, its reported $3,000.000 advance sale and, above all, the comparison with its Lerner-Loewe predecessor, My Fair Lady. But Camelot suffers from something more than ballyhoo; its real trouble is not its failing to live up to extravagant expectations but its not living up to itself...
There are pleasant things, to be sure, in all of this, and there is one strong feat of acting. But there is no harmony of mood or certainty of movement; trying its luck with this thing and that, Camelot has made a fish pond of its story rather than a widening stream, and provides an evening that for all its sumptuous adornments seems curiously empty...
Things look bright at the outset when Arthur and Guinevere meet romantically and talk of themselves and marriage and sing of Camelot's charms...
...rain may never fall till after sundown, By eight the morning fog must disappear. And again, much later, as royalty asking What Do Simple Folk Do?-and whistling, singing, dancing by way of answer-they are appealingly gay. But too often Camelot's gaiety grows flip or desperate, as its more serious scenes seem faint. And in time Julie Andrews, however engaging, seems no Guinevere, as Robert Goulet, however nice his voice, was never Lancelot; and King Pellinore becomes a chattering burden in the court and Morgan le Fay a darting disaster in the forest. Richard Burton, playing Arthur...