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Today regarded as an American musical classic, Lerner and Lowe's Camelot met with a less-than-enthusiastic reception from critics when it originally opened. They dismissed the Lerner show as being inferior to My Fair Lady, its immediate predecessor by the same composer-lyricist team. The comparison irritated Lerner, who pointed out that he and Lowe had had hits before My Fair Lady, such as Brigadoon...
...comparison probably also would not sit well with Will Sakas, director of the Freshman Arts Council's production of Camelot. Sakas, who proposed the show to the Council, loves the musical for its dramatic content: the tragic love story and struggle to create a civilization in the midst of the Dark Ages, Camelot is, in his opinion, "a very beautiful, very personal tragedy...
...director read and re-read material on King Arthur and the Round Table, including The Once and Future King, which was Lerner's immediate source for the musical. As a result, Sakas will present a Camelot stressing the figure of the king in the dual guises of man and monarch. Although turning points in the show come when Arthur must choose between his desires and his ideals, Sakas believes Arthur's fate, like that of most tragic heroes is already determined at the opening of the play. Such a view reinforces the interpretation of Camelot as a musical tragedy...
Kevin White, mayor of Boston, giving an opinion of his city: "It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either...
...always on a boat somewhere. He says the L.A. smog affects his breathing"). Coury plunges into all areas of the biz. He engineers marketing strategy, designs ad campaigns, even pitches in on planning those mammoth Sunset Strip billboards, which are for the music indus try what heraldry was to Camelot. He also brainstorms with the talent, helping art ists choose material. Singer Yvonne Elliman calls him "the man with the golden ears -the best in the business at picking singles." Coury says, "I don't tell big artists like the Bee Gees or Eric Clapton what...