Aaron Sorkin & Bartlett Sher To Reunite For Broadway Revival Of ‘Camelot’
deadline.comAaron Sorkin has found his Broadway follow-up to To Kill A Mockingbird: The West Wing creator will pen a new book for the classic Lerner & Loewe musical Camelot.The Lincoln Center Theater revival of the 1960 musical will reunite Sorkin and Mockingbird director Bartlett Sher, with previews set to begin at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater on Thursday, November 3, with an opening night of Thursday, December 8.
Casting and design team will be announced later.In announcing the project today, Lincoln Center Theater described “a new version of the classic tale” and said the musical will be “reimagined for the 21st century.” Sorkin’s new book will be based on the original by Alan Jay Lerner.Camelot, based on T.H.
White’s 1958 novel The Once and Future King, features an original score by Lerner and Frederick Loewe, including now-classic songs “If Ever I Would Leave You,” “What Do the Simple Folk Do?” and the title song.The musical tells the story of such mythical characters as King Arthur, Queen Guenevere, and Sir Lancelot.
Lincoln Center describes the tale as “a story about the quest for democracy, striving for justice, and the tragic struggle between passion and aspiration, between lovers and kingdoms.”First staged in 1960 as Lerner & Loewe’s follow-up to My Fair Lady, the original Camelot starred Richard Burton as Arthur, Julie Andrews as Guenevere, and Robert Goulet as Lancelot.
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