The Knights of the Round Table fall flat in Camelot  The Knights
of the Round Table fall flat in <i>Camelot</i> P. Switzer
Photography  Throughout all three hours of Camelot, I was
entertaining a single question: Why would anyone decide to stage
this thing? I'd been pleased when I first read the show's title
on the Arvada Center's season announcement: I had never seen
Camelot before, and was anxious to make up for it. The very name
is touched with the magic of the Kennedy years, and the songs
are by the legendary team of Alan Jay Lerner and Fredrick Loewe,
creators of the brilliant and witty My Fair Lady. What could
possibly go wrong?  But when Lerner and Loewe wrote My Fair
Lady, they were working with a script by George Bernard Shaw.
Camelot's script is just plain dumb, with banal dialogue and a
muddled plot. And the songs are mediocre, with the exception of
the standout hit "If Ever I Would Leave You" and just a couple
of others.  As the show opens, King Arthur is nervous about
meeting his queen to be, Gue