Director Moss Hart and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner first decided they wanted to write a musical based on the novel The Once and Future King by T. H. White in 1959. Although composer Frederick Loewe wasn’t initially interested in the project after their recent success with My Fair Lady, he eventually agreed on the condition that this show would be his last if it was not successful. Camelot first premiered only a year later at the O’Keefe Centre in Toronto to mixed reviews. Though the show itself was positively received, every critic agreed that, at four and a half hours long, it needed editing.
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