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Camelot. Although less than the sum of its attractive parts, the Lerner and Loewe musical does provide dazzling sets, engaging music and a brilliant acting job by Richard Burton...
...tribute to Lerner and Loewe, with scenes from their hits...
Music from Camelot (Andre Previn; Columbia). Backed by bass and drums, Pianist-Composer-Arranger Previn works his own Merlinesque magic on the world of Lerner and Loewe. As always happens when Previn sets his hand to it, the score emerges sounding as if it were written from the beginning to the measure of Previn's nervously elegant style. For those who prefer their scores straight, the Camelot Original Cast Album (Columbia) presents Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and a standard pit orchestra in the show's highly engaging tunes; one in particular, Follow Me, is heard here far more...
Among the musicals, Camelot compensates for a weak book with its opulent sets, some fine Lerner-Loewe tunes and Star Richard Burton. Do Re Mi, a Runyonesque piece about jukebox racketeering, is nearly salvaged by the inspired antics of Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker...
...musicals, Camelot is very much worth seeing for "the splendor of its sets, the best of its Lerner-Loewe tunes and its stars, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; Do Re Mi, with a story of jukebox racketeering that is mere rundown Runyon, is almost saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; and the best of the lot may well be the pert, piquant French import, Irma La Douce, with delightful Dynamo Elizabeth Seal. The holdovers-not counting the perennials such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man-are topped by Fiorello!, an unpretentious reminiscence of the Little Flower...