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Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Music by Frederick Loewe Choreography by Agnes de Mille...
...might be Carter's bard (although the President's favorite poet, officially, is Dylan Thomas). Ronald Reagan's lyricist might have been the late Oscar Hammerstein II; he would have to pick another. Eisenhower's? Edgar Guest. J.F.K.'s? Another lyricist, perhaps: Alan Jay Lerner. Harry Truman's? Edgar Lee Masters. Richard Nixon's? Imamu Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones). Eugene McCarthy's? Eugene McCarthy...
CAMELOT Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; Music by Frederick Loewe...
...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. The President's favorite musical was a symbol of the "one brief shining moment" when Washington was supposedly transformed into an Arthurian round table...
...annealing grace of the evening is the score, particularly Lerner's witty lyrics. If Ever I Would Leave You, I Loved You Once in Silence and Camelot jettison the ballast of plot to soar into the lambent spheres of melody...