{"id":115,"date":"2008-05-01T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/05\/what-do-the-simple-folk-do.html"},"modified":"2010-10-29T03:13:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T07:13:30","slug":"what-do-the-simple-folk-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"&quot;What do the Simple Folk Do?&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/c0xQVToHm5M&amp;hl=en\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/c0xQVToHm5M&amp;hl=en\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I know I just espoused my dislike for the book of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Camelot-Original-Broadway-Cast-Recording\/dp\/B002M2Z3O2\/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1288336324&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>Camelot<\/em><\/a>, but I have a feeling had I been a theatreogoer in 1961, I would have been entranced by the original production. Richard Burton as Arthur. Julie Andrews as Guenevere, Robert Goulet in his star-making turn as Lancelot (and that glorious baritone stamped forever on &#8220;If Ever I Would Leave You&#8221;). Also in the cast were Robert Coote, Roddy McDowall and John Cullum in his Broadway debut as Sir Dinadan and Burton&#8217;s understudy. With a glorious cast with that score (and from what I can tell, glorious scenography), I have a feeling I would have enjoyed the experience immensely. Just try not to be completely overtaken by Burton and Andrews here on &#8220;The Ed Sullivan Show&#8221;, presenting their second act showstopper (in its entirety, imagine trying to do a five minute musical theatre piece on live TV today?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I just espoused my dislike for the book of Camelot, but I have a feeling had I been a theatreogoer in 1961, I would have been entranced by the original production. Richard Burton as Arthur. Julie Andrews as Guenevere, Robert Goulet in his star-making turn as Lancelot (and that glorious baritone stamped forever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&quot;What do the Simple Folk Do?&quot;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1738,1710,1739],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camelot","tag-julie-andrews","tag-richard-burton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}