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...coincidence, there is a My Fair Ladylike tone to Camelot's credits. Not only did Lerner and Loewe create the play, but Fair Lady's Director Moss Hart signed on again, along with Julie Andrews as Guinevere, Choreographer Hanya Holm, Set Designer Oliver Smith, Conductor Franz Allers. Beyond that, Lerner's libretto is drawn from one of the best novels of the loth and 20th centuries, T. H. White's The Once and Future King. And Arthur himself is arriving in the shape and voice of Wales's and the Old Vic's Richard Burton, who at 34 is numbered...
...dozen cabs. As Camelot principals were shuttling back and forth between the gilt Shubert Theater and the plush Ritz-Carlton Hotel, everyone was rewriting Camelot. Bit players were suggesting changes to chorus girls. Even floor waiters appeared to have a new second act under their silver dish covers recalling Moss Hart's adage that when a show is in trouble, room service invariably seems awful...
Still on everyone's mind was the trouble that had very nearly turned Camelot from a musical into a medical. In Toronto, where the show opened six weeks ago, Lerner led off with a bleeding ulcer, was in hospital for ten days. Director Moss Hart followed with a coronary thrombosis (his second), went off to the same hospital, same room, and indefinitely out of Camelot...
...center for the performing arts, was willing to offer a sizable (exact amount undisclosed) slice of Cana dian bacon to get the right show for the center's dedication. Camelot, the 1960 reunion of My Fair Lady's family (Librettist Alan Jay Lerner, Composer Frederick Loewe, Director Moss Hart, Star Julie Andrews), was the obvious choice...
Bobby sat himself down in a small green-carpeted office in Washington's Connecticut Avenue command post and went to work on the National Committee itself. In Paul Butler's six years as chairman, a lot of moss had gathered. Bobby was appalled: "When we first took over here, there were at least 100 workers, and only one girl who could take dictation." At first there was talk of heads rolling, but Bobby strategically retreated: there was not time to build a new headquarters staff, and a lot of influential Democrats would have been offended by a wholesale...