![]() ![]() But just as King Arthur’s utopian vision starts to become reality, everything begins to unravel. Encouraged by his wife, the beautiful Queen Guenevere, Arthur forms the Knights of the Round Table. The musical follows him as he embarks on his dream of creating a just society in which civil law overpowers the brute force that ruled kingdoms past. Camelot tells the story of Arthur, the young squire who becomes King after extracting the sword Excalibur from its legendary rock. A live orchestra and large cast will bring the uplifting and charming score with some of musical theatre’s most endearing songs to life. ![]() The original cast album was America’s top-selling LP for sixty weeks. Avenue Q with Hippodrome State Theatre, FL (Gary Coleman), Hairspray with Charleston Stage, SC (Dynamite), A Raisin in the Sun with Footlight Theatre. The production ran 873 performances, winning four Tony Awards and the 1967 film version won three Academy Awards. Camelot first premiered on Broadway in 1960 at the Majestic Theater. Ricky David Duckett.įrom the team of Lerner and Loewe, who created My Fair Lady, comes this musical adaptation of T.H. Performed at the historic Dock Street Theatre on Church Street, Camelot is under the direction of Mary Cimino alongside musical director, Dr. With book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, the splendid, memorable score includes the romantic and haunting If Ever I Would Leave You, the captivating How to Handle a Woman and the majestic Camelot. This timeless story of a noble king, a beautiful queen, a valiant knight, and the cherished kingdom in which they live hits the stage on Friday, August 2, which marks the first performance of the 82nd season. The Footlight Players, Charleston’s longest producing theatre company, celebrates eighty-two years of continuous theatre as the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table comes alive on the Dock Street Theatre stage in the Lerner and Loewe classic, Camelot. The first half was painful and it luckily redeemed itself.“Camelot” at the Footlight Players Theatre August 2 - 18, 2013ĭock Street Theatre, 135 Church Street, Charleston, SC 29401 We all ended up enjoying it after the play was over because as I mentioned, after intermission it got a lot better. I am not sure because we went the 2nd show since that play had started or what. The acting and the story line picked up and then the actress who played the main character could sing. Then not long before the intermission started to pick up and get better. The acting wasn't great and I just wasn't sure what was going on. It was awful in the beginning and really until right before intermission. They play had started off and everyone was looking at me wondering what I had found for us to go see. It’s not every year a theatre company turns 90 years old and the Footlight Players theatre company, first founded in 1931, is looking pretty spry with a season 90 lineup that is set to welcome back patrons and artists alike with wide variety of productions and special events including some early arrivals ahead of the full season. I saw that they have fans in the building, I really wish they had used them. There really isn't a bad seat.we ended up booking the night before we went and the seats weren't bad at all. We went to go see Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. So we decided to add this one to the mix. We had gone to a couple of theater type shows while we were in CHarleston this time around. ![]()
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