Entertainment
Curtain Call
Lancelot serves the lewk, but Aaron Sorkin’s retrofitted ‘Camelot’ misses the magic
South Pacific, The King and I, and My Fair Lady, hopes were high that director Bartlett Sher could pull a rabbit out of a hat by brushing layers of dust off Golden Era favorite Camelot. However, with a heavily rewritten book by Aaron Sorkin (Being the Ricardos, The West Wing, A Few Good Men) that eschews any magic associated with the musical adaptation of the Arthurian legend, Sher is left with nothing up his sleeve. The result is Sorkin’s retrofitted play, where mostly incongruous songs with erudite lyrics infrequently pop in.