<P> Camelot was produced in San Francisco at San Francisco Playhouse in July 2013 . </P> <P> The 2018 production at Sidney Harman Hall set box office records for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC . </P> <P> The New York critics' reviews of the original production were mixed to positive . A 1993 review in The New York Times commented that the musical "has grown in stature over the years, primarily because of its superb score...(which) combined a lyrical simplicity with a lush romanticism, beautifully captured in numbers like' I Loved You Once in Silence' and' If Ever I Would Leave You .' These ballads sung by Guenevere and Lancelot are among the most memorable in the Lerner - Loewe catalogue . King Arthur supplies the wit, with songs like' I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight ."' A 2003 review noted, "this musically rich, legend - based classic evokes enough swashbuckling spectacle to keep one smiling . And for lovers of dime - store romance, Camelot has it all--a beautiful English princess swept off her feet by a shy, but passionate bachelor king; an ardent French knight, torn between devotion to his liege and an uncontrollable hunger, reciprocated, to be sure, for the king's tempestuous wife...Camelot features a score rich in English country - tune charm by Mr. Lerner . (sic: Loewe wrote the music) Its lyrics, by Mr. Loewe (sic: Lerner wrote the lyrics), never fail to dazzle with their virtuosity and wit ." However, "Jay Lerner's murky book...has helped sink many a revival of the musical...It's a good story, but Lerner's book is talky and dense, filled with pontificating soliloquies that would have been more powerfully contained in song . Moreover, while the entire show rushes towards a bloody climax...when it finally arrives, it is merely sketched upon in one song,' Guenevere .'...The score, though, is pure magic ." </P> <P> The original Broadway production featured the following cast: </P>

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