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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0054961892594
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Acorn Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 01, 2007
Running Time: 147 minutes
Sales Rank: 17491
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1982
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Description:
Experience Camelot’s "one brief, shining moment" as Lerner and Loewe envisioned it—live on a Broadway stage. Working at the top of his talent, Richard Harris heads an all-star cast in one of Broadway’s wittiest, most literate musicals, filled with memorable tunes. Recorded at New York’s historic Winter Garden Theatre in 1982, this production captures all the immediacy and intimacy of a live performance viewed from the best seat in the house.
Idealistic King Arthur longs to create a perfectly principled kingdom, but sees his dream undone by a tragic love triangle involving Queen Guenevere (Meg Bussert) and his best friend Lancelot (Richard Muenz). In this thoroughly engaging Tony®-nominated production, the medieval monarch’s vision—a place where "violence is not strength, and compassion is not weakness"—speaks to our time and for all time.
Recommended for family viewing by the National Education Association
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE original Broadway PLAYBILL® (DVD-ROM) and bios of Lerner & Loewe and Richard Harris.
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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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The stage show of Camelot with Richard Harris at his best, filmed in front of a live audience in the theatre in 1982 and with the camers capturing the intimacy of the performers. A great cast bring this moving story to life with the wonderful score of Lerner and Lowe, a gem to own for every theatre lover.
Movie versions can't give the spontaneity and atmosphere of a performance before a live audience and it is to be hoped we see more filmed stage shows especially as technology is so much better ... Read More
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I was so happy when I finally found this DVD. I saw the original that aired on HBO is the early 80's. For so long I searched for a way to see this again as it was a fond memory of my younger days. Thanks to Amazon I found it.
I watched it within minutes of receiving it in the mail and it brought back so many memories for me. I was thrilled to share this with my own daughters.
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Camelot is a DVD rendition of Lerner and Loewe's Tony-nominated play of King Arthur's court, performed live on a Broadway stage and featuring legendary actor Richard Harris as King Arthur himself. In Camelot, King Arthur strives to fulfill his ideals for a just and peaceful kingdom, yet his dreams are betrayed when a doomed love arises between Queen Guenevere (Meg Bussert) and Arthur's closest friend, Lancelot (Richard Muenz). Close-up shots are judiciously applied to capture the distinctive moments of ... Read More
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THIS DANK, DREARY PRODUCTION is so very far from the original inspired concept and its brilliant execution! The Camelot I loved I saw twice in Boston prior to its opening on Broadway. Even sat through a few scene rehearsals.
The sets then were bright to dazzling, ditto costumes and staging.
The movie: I saw half and walked out. I sat through this version because
I was home and had popped for the DVD, so I suffered through.
And suffer I did.
This ... Read More
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The 1980 Broadway revival provides several "Shining Moments". I was thirteen when my parents took me to see this on Broadway and I was completely enthralled throughout. Seeing it again re-affirms my love for Lowe's music and Lerner's lyrics and book. Seeing the impressive talent of Richard Harris is second to none. You can read his total desperation and his love for Guenevere. No doubt, this seemingly lost treasure had been brilliantly transfered to DVD. The picture quality is great and the sound is lush and ... Read More
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