Word: lancelot
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...Spanish Lancelot, hero of the wars against the Moors, is celebrated in the year's best superspectacle, directed by Anthony Mann...
...courteous, he was a paragon of chivalry and the mold of Spanish manhood. He became a legend in his lifetime, and some 40 years after his death in 1099 he was celebrated in El Poema de Mio Cid-a vast rambling rime that became the national epic-as the Lancelot of Spain and something more, as a sort of Round Table...
...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 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...
...Lancelot (Robert Goulet) sings the poignant and beautiful "If Ever I Would Leave You" to Guinevere with powerful feeling, but the best song of the show, in two separate renditions, matches both the mournful sadness of this number and the vivacity of "The Lusty Month of May." This is the title song, "Camelot," and when Arthur sings it to Guinevere in the play's first scene, it holds all the promise and joy of the new city in its melody and lyrics...
...cast, with the exception of Mr. McDowall, is excellent. M'el Dowd, as Morgan Le Fey, is appropriately unusual, and Mr. Goulet makes a handsome and robust Lancelot. Julie Andrews still has that "delicate air," but in this production she is overshadowed by smashing performances from Robert Coote and Mr. Burton, Mr. Coote, who will be remembered as Pickering in My Fair Lady, is a riot as Pellinore, with his blustery Britishness and total incompetence in any given situation. Mr. Burton's dramatic talents are already widely recognized, and he enhances that reputation as a perfect Arthur in Camelot...