Aaron Sorkin, whose adaptation of the classic Lerner & Loewe musical Camelot opened on Broadway earlier this month, will be eligible for Tony consideration in the Best Book of a Musical …
"A Royal Delight!" (Entertainment Weekly)
"This CAMELOT is a thing of beauty!" (Vogue)
Lerner & Loewe's CAMELOT is now playing at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Tickets and more info: Camelot…
Review of the evening performance on Saturday, April 22, 2023 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City. Starring Andrew Burnap, Phillipa Soo, Jordan Donica, Dakin Ma…
I had such high hopes for the revival of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot at Lincoln Center Theater this season. The music was a known quantity- glorious, lush and romantic. The title song had bec…
Who knew that "Follow Me" had so many fans? But since Aaron Sorkin's revisal of CAMELOT started previews at the Vivian Beaumont on March 9, friends have been calling me to complain. "They dr…
Just a year and a half ago, Andrew Burnap was accepting a Tony Award for his Broadway debut performance in The Inheritance. This season, he's back in a show that is perhaps even more epic th…
By: Isa Goldberg
April 24, 2023: In the news: mass murder, BLM, the price of gas, and food, not to mention the war in Ukraine. And Lerner & Loewe's "Camelot" is at Lincoln Center.
Sp…
By: David Sheward
April 22, 2023: Camelot, the musical adaptation of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, has always been a "problem" show. Alan Jay Lerner and …
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 22, 2023: Few New York legitimate theatres have the vast spatial resources of the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center to create the kind of visually stunning imp…
In the "Camelot" now on the stage of The Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, magic has been replaced with science, wizardry replaced by wisdom, romance replaced by practicality, and f…
Unfortunately, though Sorkin may have made this "Camelot" more politically correct, scientifically accurate and less supernatural, it is much less entertaining and magical than earlier produ…
Sometimes cynical, ultra-cool critical disdain"much in evidence these days" just won't do. I loved this show; it's filled with wonderful songs and wonderful singers, an…
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There will never be another Camelot? Not quite: audiences are getting more of this classic musical, now at Lincoln Center.
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An iconic figure since the Middle Ages, King Arthur still remains the subject of debate as to whether he was a fictional character or an actual historical person in post-Roman Britain of the…
 In this impressive revival/revisal of Lerner & Loewe's melodious and witty musical first produced in 1960, based on T.H. White's The Once and Future King, director Bartlett Sher and…
The Phantom of the Opera took a final Majestic bow last night after a record-breaking thirty-five years on Broadway. Its 13,981th performance played out before a red-carpeted crowd in white …
This revival " with a new book by Aaron Sorkin " is spare, drab and somehow takes the Lerner and Loewe classic both too literally and not seriously enough.
There are bright shining moments aplenty in the latest Broadway revival of "Camelot," the 1960 Lerner and Loewe musical about the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.…
In a new production of "Camelot," reimagined by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Bartlett Sher, Arthur is more perfect than ever. But this iteration of the hero's kingdom isn't worthy of him.
O.K., so here's the dilemma: when you revive a classic show that has problematic elements (and which of them doesn't?) should you keep it the way it was written or update it for modern sensi…
