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Camelot (book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; music by Frederick Loewe; based on The Once and Future King by T. H. White) could scarcely fail to suffer from its huge pre-Broadway buildup, its reported $3,000.000 advance sale and, above all, the comparison with its Lerner-Loewe predecessor, My Fair Lady. But Camelot suffers from something more than ballyhoo; its real trouble is not its failing to live up to extravagant expectations but its not living up to itself...
Tryout Shades. On precarious Broadway, where months of work can end in one morning's disastrous reviews, some shows are too big to be destroyed by the critics and Camelot is bound to be one. Last year Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music had so much pre-Broadway momentum (a then unprecedented advance sale of about $2,000,000) that it crashed through a barricade of unenthusiastic reviews, and will probably run for another two years. Camelot, with more than $3,000,000 worth of tickets already sold, may find reviews ranging from rave to grave...
Lemmon's return to Boston for the pre-Broadway run of his play, "Face Of A Hero," has been a triumphant one. Between rehearsals and interviews, he is plagued by old friends who "know him when" and who want to shake his hand. "It's more frantic here than other places," he explains sheepishly. "After all, it's my home...
...musicals and directed ten others, has a reputation in the theater as a ruthless perfectionist whose formula of pace plus "p-zazz" results in a hit nearly every time. This week he has set up out-of-town headquarters at the Ritz Hotel and the Shubert Theater during the pre-Broadway trial of Tenderloin, the tale of "the trial of a boy's soul" during New York...
Westport, Conn., Country Playhouse-Zachary Scott stars in a pre-Broadway production of The Captain and the Kings...