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Recordings, however, are relatively cheap to produce. Stage shows are expensive. "A major reason that revivals have a bad name," says Guys and Dolls producer David, "is that they tend to be star-driven and lacking in production values -- cardboard shows with Robert Goulet." Broadway has already had one such show this season: a cheesily staged and preposterously acted Camelot, starring Goulet in a performance as animated as a computer telephone voice, that came and mercifully went...
...Robert Goulet, the original Lancelot, plays the Richard Burton role of the nobly cuckolded Arthur, a perennial boy transmuted into a saint. At 60 and looking it -- especially when moving as if in a back brace -- Goulet is two decades too old. Patricia Kies gushes out the girl Queen's politically incorrect ignorance and submission while appearing old enough to play Hamlet's mother. As Lancelot, Steve Blanchard sounds like the voice-over from a cartoon and cavorts with an odd hip swivel, as if ready at any moment to start dancing the twist. James Valentine's doubling of Merlyn...
CINEMA The Firm starts smart and ends up infirm. Boy and girl take too long to meet in Sleepless in Seattle. MUSIC Streisand makes a dazzling return to Broadway -- on CD. THEATER Robert Goulet's touring Camelot is a waxworks. BOOKS Game Over tells how Nintendo wove its international spell. A seductive look at new theories of the universe...
...FANTASTICKS. Three decades after it opened off-Broadway (for 12,000-plus performances and still counting), the boy-meets-girl charmer starts a national tour at Wolf Trap, just outside Washington, in a spruced-up version starring Robert Goulet...
Just before Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston fought for the heavyweight boxing crown in 1965, baritone Robert Goulet lost his preliminary bout with The Star- Spangled Banner. He made it flawlessly through the first several lines before losing his grip on the lyrics. He later blamed his Canadian upbringing for having to hum the remainder before thousands of fight fans and a closed- circuit television audience...