Video: Go Inside Rehearsal for CAMELOT on Broadway

Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World

Lincoln Center Theater is presenting a glorious new production of the classic

Learner and Loeb musical Camelot. It features a brand new book by Aaron Sorkin and is directed by Bartlett-Share

And we're here in the rehearsal room to bring you a sneak peek and to meet the company. That's May, the last month of May

the darling month I'm going to grow self-control. It's time to do

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gaze at the human race again How excited are you too to be working on this glorious new production of Camelon

Oh my God. Are there words? I don't know if there are words. I don't have them

Thrilled? I mean, if it was a scale from 1 to 10, I think I'd be in 11

Yeah. Yeah. That's out of bounds. Yeah, that's out of bounds. That's how excited I am

Listen, I would be excited if I was in this room working on a musical adaptation of Moose murders

Working with Bart, working with this cast, these designers working at Lincoln Center

But to be working on Camelon that a big deal That a really big deal What made this so special for you A couple things The fact that Aaron Sorkin and Bartlett are guiding us and creating this world in which we are existing in to greats

And also that we have an incredible cast, as you saw, everyone is not only an incredible artist and very talented

but really good humans making this story come to life. And also just like, it's Camelot

I mean, it's iconic. It's this, it's not only just a classical musical that we're revisiting

but like the story itself is epic and iconic and defies the ages

I mean, why have we revisited it so many times? Why? And I think it's at the core, it's a story that we see ourselves in

a story that gives us hope, a story that, A story that makes us understand that every great movement that we've had throughout history

has had opposition, it's had resistance, it's had hope and joy and love

And that's what makes everything great. All those elements, that's what makes Camelot so great

Snow may never social on the hillside by 9 p.m. the moonlight must appear

In short, there's simply not a more congenio's spot. for happily ever after

and hear him Canada Talk about Arthur

what you love about him Arthur's heart his belief This is a man who has power thrust upon him Great responsibility thrust upon him And deeply believes that humans can be better He has a teacher who tells him there a great cause that you can lead and he actually believes that

We're in a world full of cynicism and detachment, and here is a boy who actually believes

no, I think we can make systems that will work for society's most vulnerable people

And I love that about him, and he's also such a nerd. He's so smart and doesn't really know how to talk to women and is sort of nervous all the time and filled with self-doubt

But his belief in the best of people is what I connect with most of all

But if I never leave, it couldn't be in autumn. How I believe in autumn I never would know

I've seen how you sparkle. I play Lancelot Dulac. What do I love about him

I love so many things. He's physical. He's intelligent. He's well read

He's well versed. He is emotional. And willing and open to change

even if it means giving up some of the things that he thought

would lead to a perfect immaculate life, you know. It's been a big pinch-me moment for you, Broadway debut

to, like, be in this room with this group? Oh, it's huge. It's huge

I mean, especially being a queer, disabled actor, you know, I think there have been two other amputees on Broadway before me

This is such a huge opportunity and it feels I mean I just I over the moon yeah it incredible Well I mean I feel very lucky to be at Lincoln Center I feel lucky that we can be in the Beaumont And I think being at the center of New York City in this kind of amazing place

it's the right place to ask the questions that Camelot asks. It's the right place to engage the biggest things that we have to face as a community

as a city, as a country, and to have Aaron along to help us think through that

has been just an extraordinary mitzvah. Why do you think this production is so perfect for right now

Well, we're still struggling with the essential challenge of the myth and of T.H. White's book and the original score

which is how do you try to create a perfect society when everybody in it is flawed

And those flaws can be flaws of utter villainy. You do have villains

There can be flaws of the flesh, which is certain you have, and there can be simple flaws

because no one is wise enough to create a perfect society. It can't be done, but everybody has to remain optimistic that you take steps towards it

That's as good as you can do. Knowing how in spring I'm bewitched by you saw, oh no, not in spring time, summer, winter

No, never could I leave you at all. Never could I leave you at all