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[edit] The Musical Camelot

Most Frequently Asked Questions About the musical Camelot

First Presented: The musical Camelot was first presented on December 3, 1960.

Director: The director of Camelot was Moss Hart on Broadway. Joshua Logan directed the film.

Composer: The composer of the musical Camelot was Frederick Loewe.

Choreographer: The choreographer of Camelot the musical was Hanya Holm.

Lyricist: Alan Jay Lerner was the lyricist of the musical Camelot.

Actors/Singers/Dancers: Famous actors in the musical Camelot were Julie Andrews and Richard Burton on Broadway; Richard Harris in the film.

Fun Facts: The musical was revived on Broadway in 1980 and 1987.

Awards: Camelot the movie won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction/set decoration, Best Costume Design, and Best Music Scoring.

Musical Fun Quesion: What was Camelot based on? The King Arthur Legend, as penned by T.H. White. (Added by anonymous editor in 2005)

[edit] Synopsis question

"Though it was never publicly said, Camelot had destroyed Lerner and Loewe's relationship and killed Moss Hart." So, if something was never publicly said, why is it in a Wikipedia article? This sounds like pure speculation. I came here hoping for a brief synopsis of the musical and got a long, rambling, unsourced rant about how troubled and troublesome the musical was to produce. IMO this is not up to Wikipedia standards. Once I know the plotline I will try to add a synopsis. Any other help sure would be appreciated! Estreya 17:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I added a synopsis and reduced the rant, adding some fact tags. -- Ssilvers 00:57, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reference

I used the book "The Street Where I Live", by Alan Jay Lerner (1978) to verify or correct (where needed) the Background section. Instead of giving the complete cite for each requested "fact tag", I tried to streamline by giving the book cite at the beginning, with page numbers thereafter. This is obviously only one of several different ways to show the references, and someone else may have a better way of how to do it. This book does seem to be a good source for the statements, as they are essentially either direct quotes or paraphrases. I could not find the statement in the book where Burton actually "rehearses" the understudies, which is why I substituted the rather long quote from the book. JeanColumbia 20:53, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Great work. The background section was completely unreferenced before, and now it is a lot more legitimate. -- Ssilvers 21:06, 1 May 2007 (UTC)