It's May, it's May! To mark the start of this theatre-filled month, Phillipa Soo and the company of Camelot performed "The Lusty Month of May" on The Today Show. Watch the video below to see it. And Camelot has reason to be so jovial since the show got five Tony Awards nominations.
Lincoln Center Theater's new production of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, which opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on April 13, features a new book by To Kill a Mockingbird playwright Aaron Sorkin, based on Lerner's original. Bartlett Sher helms the new version of the Golden Age musical. The classic King Arthur tale is based on the novel The Once and Future King by T.H. White, set to the classic score with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
The Camelot cast is led by Andrew Burnap as Arthur, Phillipa Soo as Guenevere, and Jordan Donica as Lancelot Du Lac, joined by Dakin Matthews as Merlyn/Pellinore, Taylor Trensch as Mordred, Marilee Talkington as Morgan Le Fey, Anthony Michael Lopez as Sir Dinadan, Fergie Philippe as Sir Sagramore, Camden McKinnon as Tom of Warwick, and Danny Wolohan as Sir Lionel.
The ensemble includes Delphi Borich, Matías De La Flor, Sola Fadiran, Rachel Fairbanks, Nkrumah Gatling, Christian Mark Gibbs, Holly Gould, Edwin Joseph, Monte Greene, Edwin Joseph, Tesia Kwarteng, James Romney, Ann Sanders, Britney Nicole Simpson, Philip Stoddard, Valerie Torres-Rosario, Frank Viveros, and Paul Whitty.
Camelot returns with a 30-piece orchestra, conducted by music director Kimberly Grigsby, performing the original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang and the original dance and choral arrangements by Trude Rittman.
Sher leads a creative team that also includes choreographer Byron Easley, set designer Michael Yeargan, costume designer Jennifer Moeller, hair and wig designer Cookie Jordan, lighting designer Lap Chi Chu, and sound designers Marc Salzberg and Beth Lake, with projections by 59 Productions. Casting is by The Telsey Office's Adam Caldwell. B.H. Barry will serve as fight director, and Kate Wilson is the voice and dialect coach. Charles Means serves as production stage manager.
