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...CAMELOT Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; Music by Frederick Loewe...
Richard Burton's voice is one of the great wind instruments of the English-speaking stage. Unfortunately, in Camelot, that instrument seems to be just about all he has left to play on or with. To indicate that Burton is trifling with his formidable dramatic talents is to make an ancillary point, since the show itself leads a charmed life. Camelot opened to an unparalleled $3 million advance sale in 1960 on the assumption that after My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe were not men but gods. After John F. Kennedy's assassination, the show became a myth...
...inherited the Kennedy legend. In marrying a Hollywood superstar, he became a consort Arthur to Elizabeth Taylor's hot-copy Guenevere. To this moment, he indisputably speaks the King's English, something that still makes every closet colonial in America tug his forelock. Burton will make Camelot prosper, but even he, with his nimble intelligence, could scarcely impart any logic to the show. The story is a love triangle; yet, the nature of that love is never articulated. Does Queen Guenevere (Christine Ebersole) love King Arthur (Burton) for the sweet reasonableness with which he wishes to foster justice...
That was known as Camelot..." King Arthur in "Camelot...
Members of Winthrop House may soon be singing their own rendition of Arthur's song, for the glory days of Harvard's "Camelot" House appear to be numbered...