Camelot (Broadway Version)

Buy This Item Camelot (Broadway Version) by Acorn Media  Available from Amazon  $19.99  on 11-27-2008     Experience <i>Camelot’s</i> "one brief, shining moment" as Lerner and Loewe envisioned it—live on a Broadway stage. Working at the top of his talent, Richard Harris heads an all-star cast in one of Broadway’s wittiest, most literate musicals, filled with memorable tunes. Recorded at New York’s historic Winter Garden Theatre in 1982, this production captures all the immediacy and intimacy of a live performance viewed from the best seat in the house. <P>Idealistic King Arthur longs to create a perfectly principled kingdom, but sees his dream undone by a tragic love triangle involving Queen Guenevere (Meg Bussert) and his best friend Lancelot (Richard Muenz). In this thoroughly engaging Tony&reg-nominated production, the medieval monarch’s vision—a place where "violence is not strength, and compassion is not weakness"—speaks to our time and for all time. <P><i>Recommended for family viewing by the National Education Association</i> <P>DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE original Broadway PLAYBILL® (DVD-ROM) and bios of Lerner & Loewe and Richard Harris. Reader Reviews Richard Harris was too old for this staging and although he added the prologue it still didn't work. Meg Bussert as Guenevere is wooden and Richard Muenz as Lancelot is non-existent. The choreography is bland and the sets are over the top. Recently, Michael York took on this role and again he was too old. Any revival of "Camelot" needs to cast someone like Leo Norbert Butz who like Richard Burton in the original cast was a young leading man with a future. Be warned this is an awful production.

Camelot (Broadway Version) Available from Amazon Price: $19.99 Updated on 11-27-2008.

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