The Creation of Camelot

This star-crossed show, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s last great musical, almost killed two great talents — Lerner and director Moss Hart were both hospitalized during its pressure-packed tryout period, which rendered “Camelot” not completely ready for its Broadway opening night. It took two events, one unlikely and the other tragic, to make “Camelot” into a hit — and then into the legend it became.

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