Artist:
Camelot
Genre: Theater
Background: The 1960 musical,
Camelot, was written by Alan Jay Lerner
and Frederick Loewe and is loosely based
on the Arthur legend as adapted from the
T.H. White novel The Once and Future King.
The main thrust of the novel and the play
is the illicit romance between Arthur's
wife, Guinevere, and his great friend, Sir
Lancelot. Notable songs include:
"If Ever I Would Leave You"
"The Lusty Month of May"
"How to Handle a Woman"
In the stage version, Arthur was played
by, among others, Richard Burton, and Guinevere
by Julie Andrews. In the 1967 film version,
Richard Harris played Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave
was Guinevere and Franco Nero was Lancelot.
The film was directed by Joshua Logan.
The movie adaptation won three Academy Awards
for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best
Costume Design and Best Music, Scoring of
Music, Adaptation or Treatment. It was also
nominated for the awards for Best Cinematography
and Best Sound. It also won three Golden
Globe Awards and was nominated for an additional
three.
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