The run closed January 5, 1963
- Opened
- December 3, 1960
- Closed
- January 5, 1963
- Performances
- 873
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 23rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Camelot 7 more that season
| 1964 | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Transfer | |
| 1980 | New York State Theatre Revival · Frank Dunlop | 56 perf. |
| 1981 | Winter Garden Theatre Return-Engagement · Frank Dunlop | 48 perf. |
| 1993 | Gershwin Theatre Revival · Norbert Joerder | 56 perf. |
| 2011 | Shubert Theatre Revival · Moss Hart | 1 perf. |
| 2023 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Bartlett Sher | 116 perf. |
| 2023 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it106 named
Virginia Allen
Judi Allinson
Laurie Archer
Joan August
Mary Sue Berry
Frank Bouley
Jerry Bowers
Marnell Bruce
Carlene Carroll
Michael Clarke Laurence
Joan Coddington
Jack Dabdoub
Peter de Vise
Randy Doney
Richard Englund
James Fox
Richard Gain
James Gannon
Gene Gebauer
Katia Geleznova
Murray Goldkind
Judy Hastings
Warren Hays
Paul Huddleston
Benita James
Adriana Keathley
Richard Kuch
Donald Maloof
Leland Mayforth
Dawn Mitchell
Larry Mitchell
Joe Nelson
Paul Richards
Claudia Schroeder
Beti Seay
Marjorie Smith
John Starkweather
Robin Stewart
Shelia Swenson
Jimmy Tarbutton
Leesa Troy
Dorothy White
Patricia Bredin
Kathryn Grayson
Janet Pavek
William Squire
Christopher Cary
Tani Seitz
Madeleine Sherwood
Louis Turenne
Christian Alderson
Howard Cahl
Kathie Dalton
Janet Frank
Tom Hageman
Daniel P Hannafin
Judith Hastings
Janet Hays
Tom Head
Loren Hightower
Jack Irwin
Jeremy Ives
Howard Kahl
Edward Kerrigan
Glenn Kezer
Elizabeth Lamkin
Phyllis Lear
Tommy Long
Richard Lyle
Robert Mackie
Janet Mccall
Jack Mcminn
Richard Mills
Robert Neukum
Paul Olson
Robert Peterson
Frank Piper
Lowell Purvis
Philip Rash
George Ritner
Robert St Clair
Don Stewart
Don Strong
Evelyn Taylor
Royston Thomas
Joan Volkman
Byron Webster
Toodie Wittmer
Chester Wolenski
17 of these 106 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 89 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters11 roles recorded
Richard Burton King Arthur
Julie Andrews Guenevere
Robert Goulet Sir Lancelot Du Lac
David Hurst Merlyn
Robert Coote King Pellinore
Roddy McDowall Mordred
M'el Dowd Morgan Le Fay
Robin Stewart Tom of Warwick
John Cullum Sir Dinadan
James Gannon Sir Sagramore
Bruce Yarnell Sir Lionel
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Moss Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, Uncredited
- Choreographer
- Hanya Holm
- Producer
- Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe & Moss Hart
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- During the tryout, the following songs were deleted: “Muchee Good World,” “Sh!,” and “What Do Other Folks Do?” (the latter was redeveloped as “What Do the Simple Folk Do?” for Camelot in 1960). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 218
- In 1981 Richard Harris starred in a revival of Camelot, and in 1982 Christopher Plummer played a memorable Iago to James Earl Jones's powerful Othello. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 67
- Much was expected of Camelot, the Majesties next 253 At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 271
- In 1991 and 1992, The Moscow Circus and Tommy Tune Tonite! played here, followed by a 1993 production of the Lerner/Loewe musical Camelot, starring Robert Goulet, the show's original Lancelot, who this time took the role of King Arthur. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 344
- After the success of My Fair Lady there was tremendous pressure put on Lerner and Loewe. The result was bound to be a disappointment, and Camelot (12/3/60; 873 performances) was considered so by most of the critics. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 314
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No recording is held for Camelot at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.