Live From Lincoln Center: Camelot, airs this Thursday on PBS- Page 2

[keen on kean]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 11:24am

Suellengay - the characters age significantly during the play so you either have young people with shoe polish in their hair playing 40 year oldsfor 2/3 of the play or you suspend disbelief for the first scene. Burton/Andrews/Goulet were all well past their teens in the original production.

With all due respect to Ms. Drescher, the accent gives me the giggles. So very olde England, doncha know?

[esparza 333]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 11:27am

Fran is one of highlight of the production. From the second she appears on stage roaring laughter will be heard. Her performance in the show is comic brilliance.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 11:28am

I can just "heah huh" now as Mooahgan lah Fay.

That Gwenavee-ah bettah watch out!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 11:35am

Oh, Keen, I really need to work on making sure my sarcasm comes through more clearly in my posts. I think the cast here is PERFECT. Mazzie and GUNN? Hello? Get this into a studio, now!

[sparrman]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 11:45am

I think the age point is a very valid one, particularly for Arthur. Burton was 35 when he did it, which was perfect. Still young enough to carry off the boyish charm in the first scenes, but old enough to have the gravitas for the end.

Casting such an old Arthur (Byrne is almost 60) gives the impression that Guenevere is dumping grandpa for a hot young stud. (This ain't The Baker's Wife.) But if all three in the romantic triangle are about the same age, and all attractive, things become much more interesting.

[Derrickg]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 4:40pm

Arthur does get cast as over 50 most of the time, it seems. In all three Broadway revivals this was the case and on the recent tour, Michael York was over 60 when he played Arthur.

Just sayin'. :)
Obsessed With Broadway

[buddharich]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 7:31pm

Brian Stokes Mitchell would be fascinating in the role of King Arthur!

I'm really looking forward to Marin Mazzie's Queen Quenivere and the hottie Nathan Gunn as Sir Lancelot!!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 7:40pm

Yeah ... only airing on HDTV in Seattle, not going to get a chance to see it.

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 10:52pm

will Gunn find some way to get his shirt off in this produciton too?

[choitoy]

Posted: 5/7/08 at 4:06am

DayDreamer:

I just found out that it was only broadcasting on KCTS-HD here in Seattle a couple of days ago with no broadcast on regular KCTS (who do I have to write to at KCTS about this!!!).

But a stroke of luck as my sister recently bought a DVD/VCR combo recorder that has a digital tuner, so it picks up all those free HD channels!

I'm pretty sure that someone you know must have Comcast digital that they can record for you.

[musicalkid]

Posted: 5/7/08 at 6:38am

can anyone PLEASE record this?

I live abroad and am dying to see this.

i'd reallly appreciate it if you could tape it and send it to me.
i'm can pay the postal fees...thnx

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 1:13pm

I listened to it last night, up to "If Ever I Could Leave You." I really enjoyed it, though I've never been crazy about the show itself.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 1:40pm

Gabriel Byrne doesn't really have to sing, he is playing the Richard Burton role.

When I saw the original production, Richard Burton sang!

[hl2522]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 1:43pm

gabriel byrne does not sing.

[EganFan2]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 1:44pm

With all the wondering about whether or not Gabriel Byrne can sing, I don't think King Arthur is a singing role. Richard Burton certainly didn't sing it. Neither did Richard Harris, really. Both of them were in the Rex Harrison school of speak singing. So unless he's totally tone deaf, I'm sure we'll see more of the same. Unless he really CAN sing it.

I don't remember Morgan le Fay in any other production. Is this added?

[harris007]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 1:52pm

morgan is not added, it's just most productions usully cut the scene she is in. =(


and what sucks it's not on till 1AM TONIGHT IN ORLANDO good lord

[hl2522]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 1:57pm

"With all the wondering about whether or not Gabriel Byrne can sing, I don't think King Arthur is a singing role. Richard Burton certainly didn't sing it. Neither did Richard Harris, really. Both of them were in the Rex Harrison school of speak singing. So unless he's totally tone deaf, I'm sure we'll see more of the same. Unless he really CAN sing it."


I was commenting based on the fact that I saw the show last night and the verdict is that he cannot and really does not sing. :)

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 2:01pm

Richard Burton DID sing it.

[philcrosby]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 2:26pm

Anyone who says Burton didn't sing isn't listening to the cast recording very carefully.

[commasplice]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 2:54pm

"In all three Broadway revivals this was the case and on the recent tour, Michael York was over 60 when he played Arthur."

And he was HORRID.

This isn't airing where I am until Sunday. Woe.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 3:01pm

I don't remember Morgan le Fay in any other production. Is this added?

She was in the original production I saw, and figured fairly prominently with Mordred.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 3:07pm

Richard Burton not only sang it, but did it wonderfully. His "How to Handle a Woman" is breathtaking in its simplicity.


I am also tired of Arthur being played by "Grandpa". He should be the same age as Guinivere.

[MCfan2]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 3:36pm

I know! It seems so obvious, I don't know why no one involved in an actual production seems to get it!

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 5:45pm

well... production photos are up... how did I know they were going to go the goth drag queen route with Mordred?

Fran looks fierce though!

Those pictures left me rather underwhelmed... hopefully that won't be the sentiment after we all see it this evening...

[elmore3003]

Posted: 5/8/08 at 5:56pm

It was overproduced and very disappointing.