| CAMELOT This Afternoon | |
| Posted by: den 09:22 pm EDT 04/08/23 | |
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| On the whole, I liked the production very much. I found I didn’t mind the modern dialogue so much as the abundance of dialogue, and I don’t know if that’s Sorkin’s fault or Lerner’s. It seems to be a very talky show with sometimes significant gaps between songs. I was disappointed that this production truncated some of the songs, most notably How To Handle a Woman and What Do The Simple Folk Do, both of which, I’ve read, had been on the chopping block. I’m glad they survived at all, but I would have preferred to hear them all the way through. The scene between Arthur and Morgan Le Fey in act 2 goes on forever and causes the show to hit a wall at a critical point. That really could have been edited. Aside from the beautiful music that remains, the best reason to see the show is Andrew Burnap, who is a terrific Arthur. His youth effectively conveys the character’s idealism, and with every change Arthur undergoes during the course of the show, Burnap is completely believable. Phillipa Soo is very good as well; her performance isn’t as deep as Burnap’s but that could be a function of the character, and her voice is beautiful. The understudy for Lancelot, Matias de La Flor, gives a creditable performance. He doesn’t seem to have quite the voice to put over Lancelot’s songs as I had hoped, but I’m not sure Jordan Danica (based on his work in MFL) does either; I guess I was expecting the more robust sound that Robert Goulet provides on the OBC recording. Several folks in a previous thread mentioned sound issues, but I thought the sound was fine, perhaps slightly under amplified (a good thing) but always audible. (I was sitting towards the back of the orchestra, center.) The production design is simple and elegant. I don’t know if Sorkin’s book adds anything essential to Camelot, but Sorkin doesn’t destroy it either. I can see that to some purists, the new book may be a source of irritation, but I don’t think it’s an outrage. | |
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