Darker 'Camelot' still bright as Lerner's vision

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: April 27, 2007| Author: Miriam Di Nunzio | Copyright information

'CAMELOT'

- Opens Tuesday; through May 13

- LaSalle Bank Theatre, 18 W. Monroe

- Tickets, $27.50-$75

- (312) 902-1400

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Take one great king, a beautiful queen and a young, handsome knight who will become their dearest friend and the catalyst for their destruction. Add to the mix a wise old wizard, a menacing illegitimate son. Wrap it all up in a glorious musical score and you have "Camelot," the Alan Jay Lerner-Frederick Loewe stage mus...

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