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2 Synopsis of CAMELOT 4 A Modern Camelot Each evening, from December to December, Before you drift to sleep upon your cot, 3 Program Notes 5 Pre-Show and Post-Show Questions Think back on all the tales that you remember Of Camelot. 4 The Beginnings of a Classic 5 Works Cited Ask ev’ry person if he’s heard the story, And tell it strong and clear zif he has not, That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory ” Called Camelot.Camelot (Reprise) - Arthur, “ Synopsis of CAMELOT

Camelot is the fictional setting begin to fade. He realizes that Nimue, to go to Camelot and join Arthur’s where the legend of and a beautiful water nymph, has come to knights (“C’est Moi”). King , his Knights of the Round Table takes draw him into her cave for an eternal an elderly man who was a friend of place. The play opens with King sleep in the song “Follow Me”. His Arthur’s family, also visits Camelot Arthur hiding in a tree, nervous about memories fade permanently, and he to witness Arthur’s greatness. his upcoming arranged marriage. is led away. After arrives, Guenevere Merlyn the Magician, Arthur’s wise Five years later, Arthur sits with organizes a May Day festival on the tutor, calls him down to warn the Guenevere in his study, debating castle grounds (“The Lusty Month

young man that he must learn to about what to do for his kingdom. of May”), where Arthur introduces think for himself. Merlyn, who lives He explains that he wishes to create her to Lancelot. Guenevere takes backwards in time and remembers a new kind of knight – one that does an instant dislike to this cocky fellow the future instead of the past, knows not pillage and fight, but upholds and instigates him to engage three he will soon be separated from knights of the Round Table in a Arthur. Merlyn persuades Arthur to ‘‘jousting (“Then You May Take climb down and chides him for his Me to the Fair”). Unlike everyone unkingly behavior. Arthur then left else, Arthur likes Lancelot, and tries

alone, ponders both his subjects and to dissuade Guenevere from taking his own feelings about the intended sides against the young knight. After nuptials in the song “I Wonder What failing to convince her, Arthur is at the King is Doing Tonight?”. Arthur a loss to understand a woman’s way hears someone coming and scampers (“How to Handle a Woman”). up the tree again. Guenevere has In the jousting match, Lancelot come to the woods and does not like easily defeats all three knights. He the idea of being Queen, preferring wounds so badly that the to live an ordinary life (“Simple Joys crowd thinks him dead (“The Jousts”). ‘‘ of Maidenhood”). She stumbles But the dismay of the crowd turns into Arthur not knowing he is her to awe and adoration, as instead intended future husband and he tells Lancelot appears to resurrect a dead her of the joys of life in Camelot in man. Guenevere finds herself falling the song “Camelot”. It is love at first in love with Lancelot, although she the queen’s champion by howard david johnson sight and they almost kiss, but are does not want to violate her marriage interrupted by Arthur’s attendants. honor and justice. With Guenevere’s vows and wishes Lancelot would Arthur’s identity is revealed, and he help, he is inspired to establish the leave Camelot (“Before I Gaze at You tells Guenevere the story of how he Round Table with the motto “might Again”). Lancelot is also conflicted, pulled the sword from the stone and for right.” A few months later, because although he is devoted to became king. Guenevere is charmed Arthur’s idea has led to the Knights King Arthur, he is and they are delighted at the thought of the Round Table becoming of becoming husband and wife. The renowned throughout the Merlyn is pleased with this country. This news reaches A knight of the Table Round should be invincible, development, but his joy turns to young Frenchman Lancelot Succeed where a less fantastic man would fail. Climb a wall no one else can climb, sorrow as his memories of the future du Lac, who is determined Cleave a dragon in record time, ” Swim a moat in a coatC’est of Moi heavy iron mail. - Lancelot, “ CAMELOT Study Guide ‘‘ 2

Synopsis of CAMELOT continued in love with Guenevere. Arthur sees he detests the idea of being a Knight Lancelot, who takes her off with him

that the two are in love but chooses (“The Seven Deadly Virtues”). As to France. For the sake of his own to ignore it, as he does not wish to Guenevere remains faithful to her honor and that of Camelot, Arthur upset the tranquility of Camelot. husband, Arthur begins to feel the must now wage war on France. Several years later, Guenevere strain of ruling England (“What Do The war takes a terrible toll on and Lancelot are still tormented by Simple Folks Do”). Meanwhile, Camelot, as more than half of the their unfulfilled love (“If Ever I Would has devised a plan to trap Knights of the Round Table are Leave You”). Then Mordred, Arthur’s Arthur in the‘‘ forest one night with the killed. Lancelot and Guenevere’s illegitimate son, comes to Camelot help of his aunt, Morgan le Fey (“The relationship has floundered and to dishonor the King and try to Persuasion”). While Arthur is gone, Guenevere has become a nun. Just gain the throne for himself. Arthur Lancelot visits Guenevere in her before the final battle, Arthur meets puts him in charge of the Knight’s chambers, where she tells Lancelot Lancelot and Guenevere and forgives training program, not knowing the how much she loves him (“I Loved them both. In camp, Arthur meets a nature of Mordred’s true intentions of You Once in Silence”). Mordred young stowaway who wants to join revenge. Mordred accepts, though bursts into the room with some of the Round Table. Arthur knights the Knights of the Round Table to him on the field of battle and sends accuse Lancelot of treachery and to him back to England to grow up Oh, no! not in spring-time! imprison him. Lancelot succeeds in there, hoping that he might pass Summer, winter or fall! escaping from prison, but Guenevere on to future generations the ideals is arrested, found guilty of treason of chivalry and Camelot (“Camelot” No, never could I leave you at all! ” - Lancelot, “If Ever I Would Leave You by reason of her infidelity, and {reprise}). sentenced to be burned at the stake (“Guenevere”). She is saved by

‘‘ Program Notes “There’ll be great presidents again...but there’ll never be another Camelot,” Jacqueline Kennedy said in an interview with Theodore H. White one week after her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. White quoted Jacqueline Kennedy in an essay he published in Life magazine on December 6, 1963 titled “For President Kennedy: An Epilogue.” Since that time, the Kennedy administration has been linked with King Arthur’s mythical Camelot, which represents a utopian ideal, a world filled with hope and dreams. Theodore H. White would later refer to the Kennedy administration as “a magic moment in American history when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers and poets met at the White House, and the barbarians beyond the walls held back.”

During President Kennedy’s lifetime, no one referred to Washington as Camelot, but Kennedy was familiar with the of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s CAMELOT. His favorite moment, Jacqueline Kennedy said, came during the final number, when King Arthur urges a young knight to inspire future generations to idealism: “Don’t let it be forgot/That once there was a spot,/For one brief, shining moment/That was known as Camelot.”

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CAMELOT Study Guide 3 The Beginnings of a Classic Alan Jay Lerner was first inspired White’s text. Whereas White blames CAMELOT were lengthy, in keeping to write CAMELOT in 1958, when his the fall of Camelot on “greed and with the massive size of the production friend Stone “Bud” Widney showed selfishness and violence in the heart itself: there were fifty-six actors in him a New York Times book review of of man,” Lerner blames the fall on the cast, thirty-three musicians in Terence H. White’s novel, The Once adultery, and he simplifies the story the orchestra. At its and Future King, and suggested it to two mythic elements: the love premiere in Toronto, the musical ran should be his next musical, following triangle and the round table. Lerner four and a half hours. By the time the the success of . White and Loewe further condensed and show arrived on Broadway after its had based his saga on Thomas altered White’s story to meet new stop in Boston, one and a half hours Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur (1485), a challenges brought on by changes of music and dialogue, including a compilation of the legends of King in . CAMELOT ballet sequence and a jousting scene, Arthur, and interpreted its theme conformed to the musical theatre had been cut. Directed by Moss from a modern perspective, as the style established by Rogers and Hart, CAMELOT officially opened search for an antidote to war. In his Hammerstein: a long first act and a at the Majestic Theatre in New York adaptation of The Once and Future short second act leading to a dramatic City on December 3, 1960. Though King, Lerner was unable to draw finale. However, with character the show stayed true to the framework much material from White’s first development now vitally important, intended, cuts volume, The Sword and the Stone and with music now integral to the continued even after the opening. (which detailed Merlyn’s education telling of the story, songs had to CAMELOT had a successful run of of King Arthur), because Disney had be central to the drama rather than 873 performances and won four Tony purchased the movie rights for an merely entertaining diversions. Awards. The original cast album was animated film. He also took some Even with significant cuts from the top selling LP in the United States creative liberties with the rest of White’s novel, the early versions of for fifteen months.

A Modern Camelot On November 22, 1963, John revelations that Kennedy was not

F. Kennedy was assassinated. the ideal president the King Arthur Two weeks later, Theodore H. analogy suggested. Even Theodore White’s article appeared in Life, H. White, in his 1981 book, In Search and CAMELOT was performed in of History, calls the Kennedy myth on the national tour. Lerner a “misreading of history.” As Mike described the audience’s emotional Celizic reminds us, the Camelot of reaction that night: “Louis Hayward legend itself never existed “except was playing King Arthur. When he in the minds of people who needed ‘‘ came to those lines [“Don’t let it be there to be such a place.” In the forgot/That once there was a spot,/ immediate aftermath of John For one brief, shining moment/That F. Kennedy’s death, Jacqueline was known as Camelot”], there was Kennedy and Theodore H. White a sudden wail from the audience. It understood the country’s need was not a muffled sob; it was a loud, for a heroic myth as it grieved for almost primitive cry of pain. The its thirty-fifth president and feared play stopped, and for almost five for its future. In explaining why so Don’t let it be forgot minutes everyone in the theatre— many people believed in what he That once there was a spot on stage, in the wings, in the pit, calls “this elaborate fiction,” Robert For one brief, shining moment and in the audience—wept without Fulford says that we “wanted to That was known as Camelot restraint. Then the play continued.” believe. We embraced, perhaps for Camelot (Reprise)” November 22, 2013 marks the the first and last time in our lives, - Arthur “ 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s an ancient ideal of virtue, wisdom assassination. The Camelot myth and beauty embodied in one great has endured, despite subsequent leader.” CAMELOT Study Guide ‘‘ 4 Questions

Pre-Show Questions Post-Show Questions

1) Lerner and Loewe were collaborators on numerous 6) Music can provide an emotional connection between projects. They wrote many great musicals together, a character and the audience. Think about a song but it was said that this collaboration put a stress or character from CAMELOT that you connected on their friendship. What do you think would be with. Describe your own characteristics and the benefits and also the challenges of writing discuss how they relate to the song or character. a script, music, and lyrics with someone else? 7) How did Guenevere and Lancelot’s relationship go 2) In the opening of the musical, King Arthur is hiding against the values of the Knights of the Round Table? from his bride-to-be. How is this different from the 8) There are a lot of mystical characters in CAMELOT, such as way we imagine the story of King Arthur and Camelot? Merlyn, Morgan le Fey, and Nimue. What are some ways 3) Describe and analyze the role of Merlyn. How does in theatre to show the audience that these characters are Merlyn’s presence help or cause trouble for King Arthur? different from everyone else? Think about the lighting, costumes, and music that is used for those characters. 4) CAMELOT takes place over an extended period of time. Imagine you are an actor playing either the 9) CAMELOT ends at a camp just before the final role of Arthur, Guenevere or Lancelot. What would battle of King Arthur’s war. What kind of impact you do to portray growth and development in your did this have on you as an audience member? How character? How would you portray the process of aging? did this affect the overall message of CAMELOT? 10) The story of King Athur and CAMELOT is known on 5) Who is Pellinore and what is his significance in a global level and there have been many different CAMELOT? Would the story be any different if portrayals of it. Collect images of King Arthur and Pellinore were not present? describe how the artist interprets him. What is the tone of these images? How do they connect to the musical?

Works Cited

Burns, William E. A Brief History of Great Britain. New York: Facts On File, 2010. Castleden, Rodney. King Arthur: The Truth behind the Legend. London: Routledge, 2000. Celizic, Mike. “Kennedy’s Death Marks the End of Camelot.” 26 Aug. 2009. http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/politics/Death_marks_ the_end_of_Camelot-55080932.html Eisenberg, Susan Dormady. “Stone Widney Recalls the Magic of Camelot as Musical Turns Fifty.” Huffington Post. 2 Dec. 2010. http:// www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-dormady-eisenberg/stone-widney-reflects-on-_b_790814.html Fulford, Robert. “The Kennedy Myth—And Why We Believed It.” The National Post 5 June 2004. http://www.robertfulford.com/2004- 06-05-kennedy.html Gänzl, Kurt.The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. New York: Schirmer, 1994. Lerner, Alan Jay. The Street Where I Live. New York: Norton, 1978. Mordden, Ethan. Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pfefferkorn, Karl. “Effects of Kennedy and White’s ‘Camelot’ Myth Discussed.” 08 December 2008. http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/ textonlyarchive/95-12-08/4.txt Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Swain, Joseph Peter. The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey. New York: Oxford UP, 1990. White, Theodore H. “For President Kennedy: An Epilogue.” Life 6 Dec. 1963: 158-59. White, Theodore H. In Search of History: A Personal Adventure. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.

CAMELOT Study Guide 5 new repertory theatre’s CAMELOT book and lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER

music by FREDERICK LOEWE

directed and choreographed by RUSSELL GARRETT**

musical direction by DAVID MCGRORY

scenic designer costume designer lighting designer JOHN TRAUB RAFAEL JAEN*** CHRIS BRUSBERG

sound designer stage manager assistant stage manager STEVE DEE KEVIN SCHLAGLE* LESLIE SEARS*

cast (in alphabetical order)

RACHEL ABBATE Lady in Waiting MARK LINEHAN* Colgrevance TROY BARBOZA Guilliam BRITTNEY MORELLO* Nimue RISHI BASU Castor ROBERT D. MURPHY* Merlyn, Pellinore MICHAEL J. BORGES* Sir MAURICE KEVIN CIRONE Sir EMMANUEL PARENT* Sir Lionel SHONNA CIRONE Lady Anne JULIAN SCHEPIS Page KATIE CLARK Morgan Le Fey JACOB SHERBURNE Bliant BENJAMIN EVETT* Arthur ERICA SPYRES* Guenevere DASHIELL EVETT Tom of Warwick NICK SULFARO Mordred NATALIE HALL Young Girl in Waiting JACKIE THEOHARIS Lady in Waiting MARC KOECK* Lancelot JEREMY A. TOWLE Squire Dap

orchestra DAVID MCGRORY Music Director, Piano PRISCILLA CHEW Cello JEFF CLAASEN Trumpet BETH MUNN GRIFFIN Percussion DONALD HOLM JR. Percussion STANLEY J. SILVERMAN Violin LAURA SMOLOWITZ Flute JERI SYKES Clarinet

dance captain fight captain MAURICE EMMANUEL PARENT* MICHAEL J. BORGES*

* member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States ** member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc., an independent national labor union *** member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829

CAMELOT Study Guide 6 RACHEL ABBATE (Lady in KEVIN CIRONE (Sir BENJAMIN EVETT* (Arthur) Waiting) makes her New Sagramore) makes his returns to New Repertory Repertory Theatre debut. New Repertory Theatre Theatre after appearing Recent credits include debut. Regional credits in Amadeus, Cherry Docs, Thoroughly Modern Millie include Legally Blonde and Opus, Indulgences, A (Stoneham Theatre); Sunset Boulevard (Next Christmas Carol, Quills, A Oklahoma (The Berkshire Door Theater); Ragtime Girl’s War, and Jerusalem, Theatre Group); and The Sound of Music, The (Fiddlehead Theater); I Love You, You’re and directing RENT. He was recently seen Mikado, and The Music Man (Muhlenberg Perfect, Now Change (Arts After Hours); in Freud’s Last Session (Arizona Theatre College’s Summer Music Theatre). Ms. Into the Woods (Salem Summer Theater); Company) and God of Carnage (San Abbate earned her BA in theatre and dance tick, tick…BOOM! and The Last Five Years Jose Rep). He was a member of the ART from Muhlenberg College (Pennsylvania). (T & F Theater); The Producers ( Lane Resident Acting Company from 1993 to Originally from Norfolk, MA, she resides in Players/IRNE Nomination); and Bye Bye 2003, performing in over 50 productions, Manhattan. Liver: The Boston Drinking Play (Pub Theater including Waiting for Godot, The Bacchae, Company). Currently he is developing a new Phedre, and Six Characters in Search of an musical called Creative License, for which he Author. He has performed at the Missouri TROY BARBOSA (Guilliam) wrote the book and lyrics and co-wrote the Rep, the Virginia Stage Company, the Alley makes his New Repertory music. Originally from Veazie, ME, Mr. Cirone Theatre, the Taiwan National Theatre, and Theatre debut. Recent resides in Woburn. the Moscow Art Theatre. He is Founding credits include The Artistic Director of Actors’ Shakespeare Libertine (Bridge Rep); The Project, where he played Coriolanus, Hamlet, Da Vinci Commission (Can’t SHONNA CIRONE (Lady Petruchio, Edmund, and Caliban. Mr. Evett Wait Productions); Next to Anne) makes her New will next appear in On the Verge this spring. Normal (M&D Productions); Xanadu, The Repertory Theatre debut. Drowsy Chaperone, and My Fair Lady (Cape Boston area credits include Rep). In addition, Mr. Barboza was assistant Fiddler on the Roof (Reagle DASHIELL EVETT (Tom director on Twins (Boston Actors’ Theatre). Music Theatre); A New Brain of Warwick, Understudy: Originally from Cape Cod, he resides in (Moonbox Productions); Ensemble) is a sixth-grader Brookline. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor at Ottoson Middle School in Dreamcoat (Turtle Lane Playhouse); Ragtime Arlington. His previous acting (Fiddlehead Theatre/IRNE Award); Bye, credits include Kurt in The RISHI BASU (Castor) makes Bye, Birdie (Reagle Music Theatre, IRNE Sound of Music (Concord his New Repertory Theatre Nomination); The Full Monty (Stoneham Players); one of Fagin’s Gang in Oliver! debut. Area credits include Theatre); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now (Arlington Friends of the Drama); and a pair Les Miserables and Fiddler Change (Arts After Hours); The Phantom of twins in Blood Rose Rising (Honest Ghost on the Roof (Reagle Music Tollbooth (Wheelock Family Theatre); Productions). He sings with both In Good Theater); On the Town and Candide (Huntington Theatre Company); Company, an all-ages group that creates The Mikado (Lyric Stage and The Last Five Years (T & F Theater). engaging, original musical theater inspired Company); RENT, Freakshow, The Pillowman, Ms. Cirone is a graduate of The American by stories from American history, and Oliver!, An Ideal Husband, And Then There Music and Dramatic Academy (New York). Arlington’s Broadway Performance Group. Were None, Gypsy, Singin’ in the Rain, Originally from Billerica, MA, she resides in Dashiell plays guitar, makes his own films, and Hair (Footlight Club). He has been a Woburn. Next she will appear in Company and enjoys cooking, tennis, and ultimate featured singer with the Tanglewood Festival (Moonbox Productions). Frisbee. Chorus, Boston Camerata, and Harvard Glee Club. Originally from Rochester, NY, he resides in Somerville. KATIE CLARK (Morgan NATALIE HALL (Young Girl in Le Fey) makes her New Waiting) is a seventh-grader at Repertory Theatre debut. The Rivers School in Weston. MICHAEL J. BORGES* (Sir Area credits include A Chorus Her previous acting credits Dinadan, Fight Captain) Line (Reagle Music Theatre); include Children’s Chorus makes his New Repertory Thoroughly Modern Millie in Joseph and the Amazing Theatre debut. Area credits (Stoneham Theatre); Crazy Technicolor Dreamcoat th include The 25 Annual for You (Fiddlehead Theatre Company); (Turtle Lane Players); Marta in The Sound Putnam County Spelling Hairspray (Reagle Music Theatre); Singin’in of Music (Reagle Music Theatre); Molly in Bee (Lyric Stage Company/ the Rain (New Bedford Festival Theatre); Annie (Wellesley Players); and Greta in Henry Broadway World Award); A Christmas Carol and (Cape Rep Theatre). Other & Greta (Jenny Lim: Old Depot Film). She (North Shore Music Theatre); and Awesome credits include Guys and Dolls (Interlakes performs with The Friends of Broadway 80’s Prom (Bello Productions). Off-Broadway Summer Theatre); The Music Man (National (SAMM Entertainment) and dances with credits include Mexican Hayride and Strike Tour); Trailer Park Musical (Theatre Barn); and Eclipse Dance Company. She trains in musical up the Band (Lions Theatre). Mr. Borges 42nd Street (Arizona ). Ms. theater, tap, jazz, and ballet at The Performing earned his BFA in Musical Theatre at Clark earned her BA in Musical Theatre and Arts Connection in Sudbury. Emerson College. Originally from Taunton, Dance from Ball State University (Indiana). MA, he resides in New York. Originally from Medford, MA, she will next appear in Company (Moonbox Productions).

CAMELOT Study Guide 7 MARC KOECK*(Lancelot) Sticks and Bones (Harbor Stage Company); JACOB SHERBURNE (Bliant) makes his New Repertory Floyd Collins and Lucky Stiff (Moon Box returns to New Repertory Theatre debut. Other credits Productions); A Child’s Christmas in Wales Theatre after performing in include Legally Blonde and King of the Jews (Boston Playwrights’ both Romeo and Juliet and (Ocean State Theatre). Film Theatre); and Hotel Cassiopeia and Time To Kill a Mockingbird with credits include Grown Ups 2 of Your Life (Fort Point Theatre Channel). Classic Repertory Company. (Columbia Pictures) and The Television credits include Gilded Lilys Recent area credits include Heat (20th Century Fox). Mr. Koeck is currently (ABC) and several episodes Brotherhood The Donkey Show (A.R.T.); Evil Dead: The a senior pursuing his BFA in Musical Theatre (Showtime). Mr. Murphy provides voiceover Musical (Arts After Hours); Les Miserables at The Boston Conservatory. Originally from for many Boston companies, including and Bye Bye Birdie (Reagle Music Theater); Fargo, North Dakota, he currently resides in Fidelity Investments and Houghton Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Boston. Mifflin Harcourt. He served on the Board Dreamcoat (Turtle Lane Playhouse); and of Directors for StageSource, resides in Floyd Collins (Moon Box Productions). Mr. Beverly, and will next be seen in the Sila Sherburne earned his BA in Theatre and MARK LINEHAN* (Underground Railway Theater). English from Boston College. Originally from (Colgrevance) returns to Arlington, he resides in Medford. New Repertory Theatre after appearing in The Last MAURICE EMMANUEL Five Years (BroadwayWorld PARENT* (Sir Lionel, Dance ERICA SPYRES* Award). Other area credits Captain) returns to New (Guenevere) returns to include Pippi Longstocking Repertory Theatre after New Repertory Theatre (Wheelock Family Theater); It’s A Wonderful performing in RENT, Passing after appearing in Master Life and Lumberjacks in Love (Stoneham Strange, Cabaret, The Wild Class and Marry Me a Theatre); Cupcake: A New Musical Party, and Ragtime. Other Little. Area credits include (GBA Productions/Club Cafe); and Floyd area credits include On the Town, Man of Tribes and The Light in Collins (Moonbox Productions). He has La Mancha (Lyric Stage Company); A Raisin the Piazza/IRNE Award (SpeakEasy Stage also appeared on stage at the Reagle in the Sun (Huntington Theatre Company); Company); Avenue Q/IRNE Award Elliot Music Theatre, Lyric Stage Company, The Mountaintop (Underground Railway Norton Nomination, Time Stands Still/ Foothills Theatre, Next Door Center for Theater); The Motherf**cker with the Hat and Elliot Norton Nomination, and The the Arts, Fiddlehead Theater, and the Some Men (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Mikado (Lyric Stage Company); Of Mice Papermill Theater (New Hampshire). Film Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, A and Men (Moonbox Productions); and credits include stunt work in Shutter Island Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, and Pirates! (Huntington Theatre Company). and Surrogates. He has also appeared King John (Actors’ Shakespeare Project/ Ms. Spyres is a corporate spokesperson, in numerous television commercials. Mr. Company Member); Angels in America/Elliot radio/TV announcer, can be seen and Linehan earned his BFA in Musical Theater Norton Award Best Actor (Boston Theatre heard on commercials throughout the from Emerson College. Originally from Works). Other credits include The Rink (Cape U.S., and coaches for My College Audition. Natick, MA, he resides in Malden. This Playhouse); The Good War (York Theatre); Originally from Missouri, she resides in winter, he will appear in Hairspray (Wheelock Hair (Barrington Stage); Ragtime (Fulton Boston. Family Theater) and in Something’s Afoot House/Music Theatre of Wichita). (Stoneham Theatre). Mr. Parent resides in Cambridge and after Camelot will appear in The Color Purple NICK SULFARO (Mordred) (SpeakEasy Stage Company). returns to New Repertory BRITTNEY MORELLO* Theatre after appearing in (Nimue) makes her New RENT. Other Boston-area Repertory Theatre debut. JULIAN SCHEPIS (Page, credits include Dr. Jekyll Other credits include Understudy: Tom of Warwick) and Mr. Hyde (Stoneham Pirates! (Huntington returns to New Repertory Theatre); Anne of Green Theatre Company); Theatre after performing in Gables (Wheelock Family Theatre); The Full Nine (SpeakEasy Stage mainstage productions of Monty (Stoneham Theatre); Photograph 51 Company); A Christmas Carol (North DollHouse and A Christmas (Nora Theatre Company); The Nutcracker Shore Music Theatre); and My Fair Lady Carol, as well as performing (Stoneham Theatre); Sitting Still #1: a radio and The Marvelous Wonderettes (Maine in New Rep On Tour’s A Christmas Carol. play for the Emerging America festival State Music Theatre). Ms. Morello earned He has performed in numerous productions (Huntington Theatre Company); and Bat her BFA in Musical Theatre from Emerson with Watertown Children’s Theatre, most Boy: The Musical/IRNE Nomination (Metro College and resides in New York. recently in Macbeth and Aladdin. Other Stage Company). He directs for Stoneham Boston-area credits include The Nutcracker Theatre’s Young Company and serves as (Stoneham Theatre); Joseph and the the instructor for their Resident Youth ROBERT D. MURPHY* Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (North Ensemble. A lifelong Massachusetts (Merlyn, Pellinore) makes Shore Music Theatre); and Tom Sawyer (Zero resident, Mr. Sulfaro earned his BFA from his New Repertory Theatre Point Theatre). Julian is in eighth grade at Emerson College, and resides in Allston. debut. Other area credits Watertown Middle School, plays cello, writes include Operation Epsilon stories, and is an avid Boston Red Sox fan. (Nora Theatre Company);

CAMELOT Study Guide 8 JACKIE THEOHARIS (Lady staged acclaimed productions in theaters RAFAEL JAEN*** (Costume Designer) in Waiting) makes her across the country including Skylight Music returns to New Repertory Theater after New Repertory Theatre Theatre (Wisconsin), Arts Center of Coastal designing costumes for Marry Me a Little, debut. Area credits include Carolina (South Carolina), Sierra Repertory DollHouse, Boston Marriage, and The Thoroughly Modern Theatre and Moonlight Stage (California), Misanthrope. Recent theater credits include Millie/IRNE Nomination and Red Mountain Theatre Company The Mikado (Lyric Stage Company/IRNE and The Drowsy (Alabama). At those theaters he directed Award Nomination); Possessions (Escape Chaperone/IRNE Nomination (Turtle and choreographed multiple productions Artist); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Emerson Lane Playhouse); Spring Awakening/ of Chicago, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Smokey Joe’s Stage); 42nd Street (Stoneham Theater); and MyTheatre Nomination (FUDGE); Fiddler Cafe, and Anything Goes as well as The Café Variations (ArtsEmerson & Ann Bogart’s on the Roof and Oklahoma (Reagle Music Who’s Tommy; Cabaret; Kiss Me, Kate; The SITI Company). Television and film credits Theatre); Once on this Island (Blue Spruce Wizard of Oz; and Guys and Dolls. Originally include God in America (PBS) and The Game Theatre); A Chorus Line and Cabaret from San Diego, CA, Mr. Garrett resides in Plan (Disney). He is the recipient of the (Woodland Theatre Company); Next Boston’s South End. Kennedy Center ACTF Golden Medallion for to Normal and The Rocky Horror Show Excellence in Theater Education. His book (Emerson Umbrella); and Children of SHOWCASE, 2nd Edition (Focal Press) was Eden/EMACT Nomination (Wellesley DAVID MCGRORY (Music Director) returns nominated for a USITT Golden Pen Award. Players). Ms. Theoharis will graduate from to New Repertory Theatre after music He serves as Assistant Professor of Costume Brandeis University this December with directing Marry Me a Little. Boston Music Design at University of Massachusetts in degrees in Theater Arts and Education. Director credits include Avenue Q and The Boston. Mr. Jaen will also design costumes She also studied at both the Circle in the Threepenny Opera (Boston College); HPT for New Rep’s On the Verge in May. Square Theatre School and the Broadway 164: There Will be Flood (The Hasty Pudding Artists Alliance, in New York. She resides in Theatricals); and Code Monkey (Westford Waltham. Academy). Assistant Music Director credits CHRIS BRUSBERG (Lighting Designer) include Oklahoma, Jesus Christ Superstar, returns to New Repertory Theater after and Sweeney Todd (Boston Conservatory) designing Master Class, Holiday Memories, JEREMY A. TOWLE (Squire and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Three Viewings, DollHouse, Frankie and Dap) returns to New Dreamcoat (North Shore Music Theatre). Johnny in the Clair de Lune, and Fool for Repertory Theatre after Mr. McGrory is also a composer and concert Love. Other select area credits include The performing in Cabaret pianist, performing mostly in the Boston Other Place (Central Square Theater); The and The Wild Party (IRNE area. His debut CD, Beethoven & Bizet: Third Story (Titanic Theater Company); Nomination, Best Supporting Variations, was released in 2012. Originally Loose, Wet, Perforated (Guerilla Opera); Actor/IRNE Award, Best from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he resides Carmen and Cosi Fan Tutte (Boston Ensemble). Other Boston area credits in Medfield. AfterCamelot he will perform Midsummer Opera); Monster and I Am My include On the Town (Lyric Stage Company); recitals in Newton and Lexington, and will Own Wife (Boston Center for American A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theater); A music direct The Drowsy Chaperone (Boston Performance); Yank (Boston Center for the Chorus Line and La Cage aux Folles (Reagle College) and Jacques Brel is Alive and Arts); Dead Man Walking and A Little Night Music Theatre); The 25th Annual Putnam Well and Living in Paris (Gloucester Stage Music (Boston Opera Collaborative); and County Spelling Bee (Walpole Footlighters); Company). Richard III (Northeastern University). Mr. The Awesome 80’s Prom (Bello Productions) Brusberg earned his BFA in Lighting Design and Pirates! (Huntington Theatre Company). from Boston University. Originally from New He toured the U.S. with The Doodlebops JOHN TRAUB (Scenic Designer) returns Jersey, he lives in Somerville. Live! and toured internationally with Snappy to New Repertory Theatre after previously Dance Theater and The Aluminum Show. designing Master Class. Regional credits Mr. Towle earned his BA in Theater and include Production Manager for The Merry STEVE DEE (Sound Designer) returns to Dance from the University of Maine. After Wives of Windsor (Boston Midsummer New Repertory Theatre after mixing sound Camelot, he will appear in Baby with the Opera); Dead Man Walking (Boston Opera for Amadeus. Area design credits include Bathwater (Happy Medium Theater) and Collaborative); Associate Designer for A Assassins (Boston University), Monster/ Aida (Fiddlehead Theatre Company). Christmas Carol (Hanover Theatre); Fred! IRNE Nomination and House (Boston The Musical (Cutler Majestic Theater); Center for American Performance). Other Moonchildren and Annie! (Berkshire Theatre design credits include Radio Gals, Hello, RUSSELL GARRETT** (Director & Festival); Fallujah (winner of the KCACTF Dolly!, Sweet Charity, Nunsense, and Ain’t Choreographer) returns to New Repertory National Showcase; Off-Broadway debut); Misbehavin’ (Cape Playhouse) in Dennis, MA. Theatre after directing Little Shop of Horrors The Postman Always Rings Twice, Susannah, Mr. Dee earned his BFA from the Boston and performing in The Elephant Man and and Twelfth Night (Boston University University’s School of Theatre. Originally from Amadeus. In New England, he has directed School of Theatre); and Play about the Cromwell, CT, he resides in Somerville. and choreographed All Shook Up (North Baby (Exquisite Corps). Mr. Traub earned Shore Music Theatre); Shout!, High School his BA at Colorado College and his MFA at Musical, and Beehive! (Ogunquit Playhouse); Boston University, and serves as Professor of KEVIN SCHLAGLE* (Stage Manager) 9 to 5, Hairspray, and The Full Monty Production Management and Technology returns to New Repertory Theatre after (Theatre By The Sea); Legally Blonde (Ocean at The George Washington University. serving as Production Stage Manager for State Theatre Company); Lies and Legends: Originally from New Mexico, he resides in The Elephant Man and Assistant Stage The Musical Stories of Harry Chapin (Majestic Washington, D.C. and will next be working Manager for Amadeus. Recent Boston Theatre); Falsettos, The Rocky Horror on several events in the Capitol area, credits include The Two Gentlemen of Show, and The Best Little Whorehouse in including the White House East Wing, CNN Verona (Commonwealth Shakespeare Texas (Foothills Theatre Company). He has and the National Endowment for the Arts. Company), Our Town (Huntington Theatre

CAMELOT Study Guide 9 Company), Marie Antoinette and over two FREDERICK LOEWE (Music), raised Award for outstanding new play, and he years with The Donkey Show (American in Germany, was an Austrian-American earned the Montgomery County Executive’s Repertory Theatre). Mr. Schlagle’s opera composer. He learned to play piano by ear Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Award credits include work with Boston Baroque, and begin composing songs at age 7. In for Outstanding Artist/Scholar. A member Boston Opera Collaborative, Guerilla Opera, Berlin he attended a music conservatory. At of Actors’ Equity Association, Petosa has New England Conservatory, and Boston age 13, he was the youngest piano soloist served on the executive board of the Stage University’s Opera Institute. Mr. Schlagle to appear with the Berlin Philharmonic. Directors and Choreographers Society, and earned his BFA from Boston University. After moving to New York, he met Alan Jay currently serves on the Board of Directors for Lerner in 1942, and together, they created StageSource. Originally from New Jersey, he , My Fair Lady, , Camelot and was educated at The Catholic University of LESLIE SEARS* (Assistant Stage Manager) others. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of America and resides in Quincy. returns to New Repertory Theatre after Fame in 1972, he died in 1988 at age 87. stage managing Rancho Mirage, Amadeus, and Race. Area credits include A Raisin in HARRIET SHEETS (Managing Director) the Sun, Invisible Man, Private Lives, Ma JIM PETOSA** (Artistic Director) joined joined New Repertory Theatre in 2000, Rainey’s Black Bottom, Sons of the Prophet, New Repertory Theatre as an award-winning bringing with her experience in human Ruined, Vengeance is the Lord’s, Bus Stop, theater artist, educator, and leader in 2012. resources, union contracts and negotiations, Prelude to a Kiss, All My Sons, A Civil War He has served as Director of the School of budgeting and cash-flow management, Christmas, Fences, The Miracle at Naples, Theatre, College of Fine Arts, at Boston as well as marketing, development, and The Corn is Green, How Shakespeare University since 2002, and Artistic Director special events. During her tenure, Ms. Sheets Won the West, and The Rivals (Huntington of Maryland’s Olney Theatre Center for the has successfully managed the theatre’s Theatre Company); three seasons at Boston Arts and its National Players educational increasing operational budget, and moved Lyric Opera and four seasons at Tanglewood touring company (1994-2012). While at the company from Newton Highlands to Music Center. New York credits include BU, he established the Boston Center Watertown’s Arsenal Center for the Arts. Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout Theatre for American Performance (BCAP), the Prior to New Rep, she was the General Center). Ms. Sears is a graduate of Boston professional production extension of the BU Manager at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, University where she currently teaches Stage School of Theatre, in 2008. Throughout the where she worked for nine years. Ms. Sheets Management. Originally from San Diego, Northeast, Petosa has directed for numerous began as an Actors’ Equity Association Stage California, she now resides in East Boston. institutions, including The Elephant Man, Manager, working at North Shore Music Amadeus, Three Viewings, The Last Five Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Years, and Opus at New Rep. In Boston, his Opera Company of Boston and others. ALAN JAY LERNER (Book & Lyrics) work was nominated for two IRNE awards Originally from Arizona, she holds a BFA was an American lyricist and librettist. In for A of Mercy (BCAP). He has from Arizona State University and resides in collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later served as one of three artistic leaders for Methuen. Burton Lane, he created some of the world’s the Potomac Theatre Project (PTP/NYC) most popular and enduring works of musical since 1987. In Maryland, his work earned theatre for both stage and film, including over 25 Helen Hayes Award nominations as Brigadoon, Gigi, and My Fair Lady. He was well as the award for outstanding direction educated at Bedales School (England), of a musical for Jacques Brel is Alive And The Choate School (Connecticut), Harvard Well and Living in Paris. His production University, and Julliard. He won three Tony of Look! We Have Come Through! was Awards and three Academy Awards, among nominated for the Charles MacArthur other honors. He died in 1986 at age 68.

additional production staff fight choreographer Angie Jepson props designer Andrea VanDenBroeke assistant director & child supervisor Sophie Rich production assistant Tom Kordenbrock audio engineer Jeremy Goldenberg follow spot operator Renne Brungard hair and makeup artist Emily Damron dialect coach Christine Hamel costume assistants Colleen Fitzgibbons, Sarie Guessner, Ashleigh Roy

special thanks Martha Mulligan, Dr. Solomon of Solomon Collection and Fine Rugs, Heather Eagan, Robert Walsh, Ted Hewlett, North Shore Music Theatre, The Boston University School of Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Company, UMass Boston Theatre Arts, Mercury Manufacture and Design

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