Talk:Camelot (musical)

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)

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)

Thank you. KittySilvermoon (talk) 10:54, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

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)

missing
why is Fie on Goodness missing?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.69.169.53 (talk) 06:37, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Weeks at Number One
It did not spend sixty weeks as the best selling album in America. At least not according to the list of number one albums page in wikipedia. Plus the weeks on the bottom of this page do not line up with the number one albums page. Bts.smith (talk) 05:51, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I just removed the entire sentence from the first paragraph about the alleged 60 week run as #1 album, since at minimum, there's no authoritative source to back up the claim. [] says that it was only at the #1 spot for six weeks, and I found other sources that state that the longest-running #1 album ever was West Side Story, and that was only for 54 weeks. It seems pretty clear that the 60-week claim is erroneous, but aside from the wiki page, I couldn't find a source that actually stated how long it was a #1 album, so for that reason, and also because it seems that the actual stat isn't that noteworthy, I deleted the whole sentence rather than replacing it. Little Miss Might Be Wrong (talk) 08:14, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Camelot (musical). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120327174227/http://www.torontostage.com/reviews/camelot.html to http://www.torontostage.com/reviews/camelot.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 16:24, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Guen/Guin?
The musical seems to spell her name with the e, Guenevere, but the article vacillates between Guenevere and Guinevere. Can we please pick one spelling and use it consistently? Thanks, Aristophanes 68   (talk)  01:13, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Camelot (musical). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140813005800/http://playbill.com/reference/theatre_info/2182.html to http://www.playbill.com/reference/theatre_info/2182.html
 * Added tag to http://www.mp3.com/albums/516963/reviews.htm
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20121022005658/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/117484-Follow-Me-Philharmonics-Camelot-with-Kudisch-Mazzie-Byrne-and-Gunn-Begins- to http://www.playbill.com/news/article/117484-Follow-Me-Philharmonics-Camelot-with-Kudisch-Mazzie-Byrne-and-Gunn-Begins-

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 12:26, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Camelot (musical). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130811210338/http://www.tamswitmark.com/musicals/camelot.html to http://www.tamswitmark.com/musicals/camelot.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 10:43, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

1982 American Tour???
In the summer of 1982, I worked a run at the Melody Top Theatre in Milwaukee Wisconsin. I recall going to Six Flags Great American with the actress on an off day --> where I foolishly asked her, at dinnertime, if she liked Italian food.

Anyway, I came here to find out how long the run was only to find no mention in her Stage section. Why no mention? 2603:6000:8A01:F500:584C:B493:A3B5:54EA (talk) 23:45, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

New version 2023.needs a page
There is a new version out with book by Aaron Sorkin. Ksnow (talk) 23:40, 31 July 2023 (UTC)Ksnow