Lerner and Loewe’s CAMELOT
Join the JFK Hyannis Museum at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis on August 24th at 2 PM for a very special matinee’ of Lerner and Loewe’s CAMELOT followed by a Talkback.
Following the show, the Cape Playhouse artistic director and actors, along with political science professor and Provost at Stonehill College / Chair of the JFK Hyannis Museum Foundation Peter Ubertaccio, will talk about the show and the adoption of Camelot as President Kennedy’s legacy. A reception on the terrace will follow the Talkback.
JFK Hyannis Museum members and guests receive a 15% discount on the show with promo code Kennedy824.
Show Summary
The legendary love triangle of King Arthur, Guenevere and Sir Lancelot leaps from the pages of T.H. White’s novel in Lerner and Loewe’s award-winning, soaring musical.
An idealistic young King Arthur hopes to create a kingdom built on honor and dignity, embodied by his Knights of The Round Table. His Ideals, however, are tested when his lovely queen, Guenevere, falls in love with the young Knight, Lancelot, and the fate of the kingdom hangs in the balance. Borrowing from the Arthurian legends, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot is a fantastical masterpiece which triumphed on Broadway in a legendary original production that led to a film version, and numerous revivals across the globe.
Camelot features a rich score boasting such gems as “If Ever I Would Leave You,” “I Loved You Once in Silence,” “The Lusty Month of May,” and of course, “Camelot.”
Run Time: 2 Hours and 45 Minutes
Ages: 12 and up
Music by Frederick Loewe
Original Production Directed and Staged by Moss Hart
Based on “The Once and Future King” by T.H. White
Book Adapted by David Lee
New Orchestrations by Steve Orich
JFK Historian: Peter Ubertaccio
Vice President for Academic Affairs at Stonehill College, Peter Ubertaccio previously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Caldwell University, founding Dean of the Thomas and Donna May School of Arts & Sciences at Stonehill College and an Associate Professor of Political Science. He is a frequent commentator on Massachusetts and national government and politics, appearing in the Boston Globe, the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Boston Herald, The Hill, the HuffingtonPost, Politico, the BBC (Farsi), and Al Jazeera (English). He’s been a regular political analyst on WGBH and New England Cable News and has been interviewed on Marketplace on American Public Media, Greater Boston with Emily Rooney, WRKO, WATD, Fox 25 News, WBUR’s Radio Boston, and WMEX.An expert on American political development, political parties, and institutions, he is the former Director of the Joseph Martin Institute for Law & Society and the former Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Stonehill. His scholarly work has been featured in the Routledge Handbook of Political Management, Winning Elections with Political Marketing and the Routledge Handbook of Political Marketing. With Brian Cook of Clark University he contributed to the centennial issue of the American Political Science Review with an analysis of Woodrow Wilson’s contribution to the field of political science, “Wilson’s Failure: Roots of Contention About the Meaning of a Science of Politics.”He is the author of two career guides with CQ/Sage press for undergraduates studying politics.A magna cum laude graduate of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Professor Ubertaccio received his Ph.D. in Politics from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. He is the President of the Board of Directors of the JFK Hyannis Museum Foundation and is a member of the Board of Advisors for Pope John Paul II High School in Hyannis, MA and a former member of the Academic Program Committee of Boston College’s Woods College. A native of Morristown, N.J., he and his family live on Cape Cod.
