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List Price: $29.99 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $10 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 26 September, 1982 DVD Release : 01 May, 2007 |
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Camelot (Broadway Version) description A live-on-stage performance filmed for HBO in 1982, Camelot returns Richard Harris to the role he immortalized on film in 1967. Harris replaced the original King Arthur, Richard Burton, in this revival production as it was on its way to New York's Winter Garden Theatre, which turned out to be Harris' only role on the Broadway stage. Fifteen years later, he's an older and wiser Arthur, a little more world-weary but still with a twinkle in his eye. He's paired with Meg Bussert, whose Guinevere is not as beautiful as Vanessa Redgrave in the film, but a better singer and appropriately younger. Bussert, who was Tony-nominated for her role in Brigadoon the year before, sounds eerily like original Broadway star Julie Andrews at times. Richard Muenz (The Most Happy Fella revival) plays Lancelot, Barrie Ingham plays Pellinore, and Richard Backus is Mordred. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's score is still a great classic, and here two songs cut from the movie are restored, "Before I Gaze at You Again" and "The Seven Deadly Virtues," but inexplicably cut is "Then You May Take Me to the Fair." Not surprisingly the production has a more stagebound feel compared to the sumptuous feature film, but it's good to have a more faithful version of the show available on DVD. --David Horiuchi |
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| This production of Camelot was first seen in London (Apollo Victoria Theatre), with Richard Harris and Fiona Fullerton, I saw it and was not impressed. I have to say that after viewing this DVD version of the Broadway production I was stunned, it is fantastic. Richard Harris is a little too old for the part but what a brilliant performance he gives. He is well suported by everyone else too, although Mordred could have been played more devilish. All in all a truly wonderful DVD to add to my collection. | |
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