Broadway is Center Stage with Camelot

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Kristen Gleason
Director of Marketing
The Paramount Theater
215 East Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
434.979.1922 ext. 103
kristen@theparamount.net

For Immediate Release

September 19, 2006

Bringing a bit of the Great White Way to Charlottesville, the sumptuous musical feast that is Camelot will be center stage at The Paramount on Friday, October 6 at 8 pm.  Written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and based on T. H. White's The Once and Future King, the national tour of this classic Broadway show is under the direction of Mainstage Artists Management, L.L.C.

An airy musical comedy, Camelot tells the familiar Arthurian legend about the love between Guinevere and Lancelot that turned King Arthur's round table into a love triangle. The play opens hopefully enough, with a young King Arthur (Wart) nervously preparing to meet Guinevere, who has traveled from Scotland for her arranged marriage to Arthur.  While Guinevere is initially opposed to the forced arrangement, the two young people soon fall in love, much to the delight and pleasure of Arthur's wise and magical tutor, Merlin.  In order to bring peace and stability to the kingdom, Arthur establishes the Round Table, a chivalrous order of knights who dedicate their lives to righting the wrongs of those less fortunate.  After hearing of Arthur and the Round Table, Lancelot arrives to fight for the King.  He becomes Arthur's best friend, and all is well -- until Lancelot and Guinevere fall in love.

Filled with one memorable song after another, such as "I Wonder What the King is Doing Tonight," "If Ever I Would Leave You," "What Do the Simple Folk Do," "I Loved You Once In Silence," "How to Handle a Woman," "The Simple Joys of Maidenhood," and of course the wonderful title song, Camelot moves every audience with the ideals and high morals of a most perfect place.

Seats for the October 6 show are $64, $59, $56, and $53.  In addition, a Youth/Child price of $25 is available for those 12 and under.  Tickets and further details are available online at www.theparamount.net or through The Paramount’s Box Office at 434.979.1333.