'Camelot' like never before: Aaron Sorkin's revival brings new meaning to the classic tale

[@DefenderOfHumanity]

As a Disabled person, I can't explain how much it means to me that there were (at least) two Disabled actors in this production (Marilee Talkington and Antony Michael Lopez). I can't overemphasize how rare that is. It should be the norm, but it is still nothing short of revolutionary on Broadway (and in theatre in general), and it's enormously encouraging to see it happening.

[@richardjangles]

lol

[@amyepage]

It was a gorgeous performance. Phillipa’s mic could’ve been turned up a bit. But overall, it was well done indeed.

[@valmacclinchy]

I'd love to see it!

[@mr.m4853]

I'm sure this will get tens of views 😆 🤣

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

Not everyone is unsophisticated.

[@rgwak]

Shouldn't you be watching Honey Boo Boo re-runs right now? 😂🤣

[@Madbandit77]

Go watch Real Housewives, sunshine.

[@dmnemaine]

Yeah. Rewrite Alan Jay Lerner. lol

[@leerandall7740]

What was so problematic about the original book. I don’t think it needed a new book. I’m not a fan of this thing. Whatever it is. It’s not Camelot

[@djjnonya2170]

Correct. Its wokealot

[@emb74]

I don’t know much about this version but I don’t like what I hear in this interview. I thought the original book was wonderful. Although I like Aaron Sorkin Camelot is Camelot. King Arthur is King Arthur. You can’t rewrite legend.

[@warblerab2955]

@@emb74 and here is another thing: This was original the work of Lerner and Lowe, just how do we know that they would have approved of what Sorkin has done?

[@JackAShepherd]

@@djjnonya2170LOL how so -- apart from them casting non-white people, which's of course standard (and should be re: merit-based... We suspend so much imagination for the stage -- we can suspend it for race/ethnicity too)

[@acountryforwomen]

WHY DOESN'T SORKIN ALLOW MAGIC OF THE ANCIENT TALE??? HE'S DESTROYING THE MYTH OF AGES LIKE BOOK BURNING ...AND HE TAKES OVER THE RIGHTS OF THE ORGINAL ! THINK UP YOUR OWN FRICKING MUSICAL SORKIN!

[@valmacclinchy]

Your caps lock seems to be stuck.

[@warblerab2955]

"WHY DOESN'T SORKIN ALLOW MAGIC OF THE ANCIENT TALE??? " Magic? in the Arthurian tale?!?!! You can't have that! What are you thinking? Magic has no place in the Arthurian tale! What are going to go do? Make Merlin a magician?!? ha!

[@ellentim8297]

Aaron Sorkin ruined the book. He took away the magic, the passion and the love. No wedding. The music was the only good thing. The orchestra was phenomenal. Aaron, stay away from musical theater!!!!

[@djjnonya2170]

No it doesn’t bring a new story. It hijacks a classic story to make a woke mess. Racial discriminatory casting. Merlin was a wizard and Arthur and the men weren’t bumbling idiots. If by new meaning you are referring to hijacking the story to push a work agenda then yes.

[@feffygracie]

Can we get an Asian Harriet Tubman.

[@ChienaAvtzon]

Worst revival/reimagining ever put to stage. Aaron Sorkin took a notoriously bad book and made it even more problematic. The score is the only redeemable part of the musical. I felt terrible for the cast, for having to recite Sorkin’s awful dialogue. He should be banned from musical theater for removing the magic.

[@valmacclinchy]

Sorting is an Academy Award winning screenwriter.. But I'm sure you could do a better job, right? 😂🤣

[@augustineferrara]

Do you guys know that the word problematic means something? Like has an actual dictionary definition that has existed for years. It’s been a known issue from the time that it originally opened that Camelot’s book lacks cohesion and doesn’t really serve the beautiful score. You guys are just as bad if not worse than the people you’re complaining about.

[@warblerab2955]

1. Just what is this known "issue" or issue? how about you be more specific just just "issue" and "lacks cohesion"? 2. If the book was so "problematic" and has an "issue" or issues and "lacks cohesion" and doesn't serve the score, please explain why it wasn't corrected in the 1st revival in 1980, or the 2nd revival in 1981, or the third in 1993? How come it took till now? 3. I have watched the 1982 version that was shown on HBO(It is also on youtube), many times. I don't see anything problematic with the book there. I don't any "issue" or issues and it certainly doesn't seem to lack cohesion and it certainly serves the beautiful score. 4. That beautiful score is a bit less beautiful is bit less beautiful in Sorkin's version thanks to him stupidly cutting the hauntingly beautiful song "follow me" because magic had to go for some stupid reason. God forbid a story about King Arthur, Merlin and Camelot should contain some magic, CAN'T HAVE THAT!

[@richardmaclean7581]

Remember, when women couldn’t perform on stage… Men used to dress up in drag.

[@Chilliconkanye]

Times have changed... now we don't want that

[@feffygracie]

They weren't doing to indoctrinate kids.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

And boys played all the female parts in Shakespeare's time.

[@valmacclinchy]

​@@feffygracie where exactly, specifically, is the indoctrination of kids? Which specific school curriculum? I'll wait... And there will be crickets because it doesn't exist.

[@valmacclinchy]

​@@Chilliconkanye you never saw Mrs. Doubtfire? Tootsie? The Birdcage? How sad for you, they're funny movies.

[@DaleHartley]

Wales 1800 years ago was not diverse, Wales 1800 years ago STRONGLY believed in Magic and the supernatural...This is an intrinsic part of the story. Write NEW fiction and stories. Do you guys not have any imagination anymore?

[@u.synlig]

I doubt that few - if any - of the Broadway performers in Camelot over the last 63 years *were Welsh.* So, what?

[@DaleHartley]

@@u.synlig I think you might be surprised, however it is a Celtic myth. It is cultural Appropriation. ( and before you comment, the celtic lands covered from spain to anatolia, from northern british isles, to greece...)

[@DaleHartley]

@@u.synlig original cast members Richard Burton and Robert Goulet to star in their respective roles, along with Elizabeth Taylor to star as Guenevere Burton...Welsh Goulet...French ( Lancelot's home) Taylor...British For the movie Harris...Irish Nero...Northern Italy, not too far from france. Redgrave...English Ioan Gruffudd as Lancelot in 2004 remake Clive owen, and Keira Knightley...both english I could go one, but a simple web search gives you far more than I am willing to put into your ignorance. Not trying to be insulting, just noting your biased opinion is based on a hunch, not reality.

[@prefon13]

Sorkin has written a fair, few new and original fiction and stories-certainly more than you could come up with, I’d wager. So why retell something? There’s a number of reasons. Because something in it speaks to you; that’s the reason most artists do anything. Another good reason for artists, is he was commissioned to do so; shockingly, artists like getting paid. Also, because the work remains relevant. Candles in the wind can stand for a lot of things, symbolically; for an artist whose work seeks to understand how and why ideals fail-presidencies, protests, justice, or the weighty task of informing the public-this candle in the wind just might be democracy writ large. Then why change the work? Perhaps, not for the sake of changing alone, but because the change teases out another element from the original, present but buried? Perhaps because its audience has also changed? Art is meant to challenge you sometimes. It’s not always meant to comfort you. I swear, it’s not imagination we only seem to lack, it’s the capacity to sit with anything we don’t immediately agree with.

[@u.synlig]

@@DaleHartley Thank you, for proving my point. *”Few, if any... .”*

[@icausedbidenflation9999]

Black history month is over

[@sharonmassey2923]

Yes, I noticed that you changed your name, racist half-wit. But are you brain-damaged? I also noticed that you only know five words. ONE MORE TIME, white history month NEVER ends...thanks to racist half-wits like you.

[@Madbandit77]

So?

[@janbarrett4544]

It was not a revival it was a poor rehash of the original. We NEED magic right now...that's why Marvel Comics has become the new go-to for movie scripts!I feel you ripped off both Lerner and Lowe and TH White and the result is that you ruined a wonderful story.

[@julietteyork6293]

Aaron Sorkin is also the hack who cast Nicole Kidman as Lucy in his disastrous “Being the Ricardos.”

[@warblerab2955]

While I don't like the sound of what Sorkin did with Camelot. Sorkin is no hack. Watch the West Wing and then come back and tell me he is a hack.

[@kennyc6597]

Another flop.

[@Madbandit77]

Then tell me who's going to win the World Series, chuckles.

[@TH-tl6sy]

I seriously NEVER EVER EVER want to hear another person scream about cultural appropriation when Celtic and Germanic folklore and pegan religious beliefs are constantly being co-opted. Next on The Crown, Viola Davis and Idris Alba star as Will & Kate! Actually, Americans just shouldn't be allowed to touch on anything that isn't American history. Because they simply don't care or have any attachments to other people's culture. So they don't care what they do to it.

[@deborahfreedman333]

Brought to you by the same idiots, who think Cleopatra was black, despite the fact the Ptolemies were Greek.

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

We don’t care what color an actor is. They are playing a character. I’m sorry you can’t ignore color for just a little while.

[@TH-tl6sy]

@@makeracistsafraidagain your ignorance is showing. If White Actors were cast in The Woman King. You would have a problem with it. Lots of people had a problem with so many white actors were cast in the God's of Egypt. I was one of them. People are constantly going on about Dread locks. And braids or corn rows being Cultural appropriation when worn by White people yet they're not and have a long history in many cultures including European. Then people always see color. However, when it comes to celtic and Germanic tribes history culture and religion it's about "representation". If you want true representation promote telling of Folklore and legends of Cariwest and African people. Make a movie or play about Papa Bois or Soucoyant. Tell stories about Black Pirates, there are plenty in history, and Hire Black writers directors actors. Promote Black History culture stories and folkore! But NO! Can't do that. Need to culturally appropriate Germanic, Norse, Celtic Mythology Folklore and History. But Americans think You can take the stories and books from my childhood and write my people out of it. Equality and inclusiveness is not reached by Inequality and Exclusion. Cultural appropriation is wrong period. So if it's socially acceptable now for cultural appropriation I just don't ever want to hear a person of colour scream about it again.

[@robertward8035]

Americans are from everywhere, so all culture is our culture. Culture changes for everyone all the time, nothing stays the same, except human arrogance and ignorance.

[@TH-tl6sy]

​@@robertward8035 American culture is American culture. America is a melting pot and everyone I expected to blend in and become "American".

[@frankbandera6591]

I'm sure King Arthur will be black

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

Why do you assume that?

[@frankbandera6591]

@@makeracistsafraidagain To appeal to a modern audience.

[@aryandefenseleague8243]

@@makeracistsafraidagain you must be fun at parties

[@warblerab2955]

He will have to be at some point wokeness calls for it.

[@CorynaPhillips]

go woke go broke

[@Madbandit77]

Like you were going to see this musical if it had an all white cast...🙄

[@davidrhinehart7764]

Romy took julie to a restuarant and told her to order anything she wanted because he was fasting and would not be eating. So julie ordered and when she was done eating the waiter brought the check. When Romy reached in his pocket to get his wallet, he realized he had forgotten to bring it. So Romy owed what julie ett.

[@yangyin09u]

Cymbal crash!!!

[@icausedbidenflation9999]

Where's Symone, I heard she has bad diaper rash from her poor hygiene