This award-winning Lerner and Loewe musical is based on the King Arthur legend and his Knights of the Round Table as adapted from the T.H. White tetralogy novel “The Once and Future King”. Featuring a superb score played out amid the pageantry of Camelot, the story centers on the affair between Arthur’s wife, Guenevere, and his great friend, Sir Lancelot, beautifully captured in numbers as “If Ever I Would Leave You” and “I Loved You Once in Silence.” The title song subsequently joined Arthurian legend with American political mythology. CAMELOT played for 873 performances on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre and for 518 performances in London at the Drury Lane Theatre. It starred Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet and Roddy McDowall. It has been revived on Broadway several times, most recently in 1993 when it played for 56 performances at the George Gershwin Theatre starring Robert Goulet as King Arthur.

The musical will be presented in a concert-style setting with on-stage orchestration and an emphasis on musicality and story-telling. All scenes and musical numbers will be performed, but in a less conventional, more minimal manner. The performers will have the script and score with them throughout the show. The concert-style format also offers more opportunity for non-traditional casting in terms of appearance and age. Actors are asked to prepare 16 bars of a song and may be asked to sing from the show. Bring sheet music in the appropriate key. An accompanist will be provided. Actors may be asked to read from the script.

Lyrics: Alan J. Lerner
Music: Frederick Loewe
Director: Michael J. Lasley
Music Director: Brent E. Marty

Rehearsals: Starting Sept. 14
Performance Dates: Oct. 2, 3 & 4 (Fri. – Sun.)

PRINCIPAL ROLES (vocal range)

Arthur (baritone)
– raised and tutored by the magician Merlyn, Arthur, known when a boy as “Wart,” has grown accustomed to having Merlyn do his thinking for him. Then, as a squire for Sir Kay, Arthur innocently pulls a magical sword from an anvil and becomes the somewhat reluctant King Arthur.

Merlyn (non-singing)
– Arthur's long-time magician friend and mentor, Merlyn lives “backward.” He can predict the future because he has already lived it.

Guenevere (soprano)
– a radiant princess at the play's beginning, Guenevere has reluctantly come to Camelot to accept her fate as bride to King Arthur, whom she has never met..

Lancelot (tenor/baritone)
– often perceived as arrogant, Lancelot initially wants only to serve at Arthur's fabled Round Table and further the cause of might for right.

Pellinore (non-singing)
– a comic, elderly knight, Pellinore is in search of a cause.

Mordred (baritone)
– Arthur's son as the result of youthful folly, Mordred hates all the good that his father has created.

Nimue (soprano)
– a nymph who bewitches and imprisons Merlyn.

Knights, Ladies and members of The Court