Camelot

How does Lancelot get from the boy of C’est Moi to the man of If Ever I Would Leave You? We watch Arthur and Genny mature but Lance’s arc was cut during the disastrous out of town try out. The unbalanced love triangle makes it easy to miss the political subtext and dismiss the book unfairly. Still the score remains evergreen.

The Happy Time

Good Idea: Let's turn Samuel Taylor's coming-of-age comedy into a chamber musical!

Bad Idea: Let's shift the focus from the naive nephew to the roguish uncle! And put the show in a giant theater!

Good Idea: Let's cast hearthrob Robert Goulet as the uncle!

Bad Idea: Let's rewrite the uncle so he's a big success instead of a failure who lies about his success to his family!

The result? A book with no stakes, a short run, and a Tony for Robert Goulet.