OSF’s ‘Camelot’ offers too few brief shining moments

 

Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics

 

On the surface, it does not seem that large a leap for the Ohio Shakespeare Festival to go from Lear to Lerner and Loewe.

 

With a wardrobe closet chockfull of chainmail and flowing gowns, an arsenal of medieval weaponry and a seasoned ensemble with Old English accents ever at the ready, the OSF’s production of “Camelot” seems to have all the necessary fixings for this classic musical.  But it doesn’t.

 

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