Lin-Manuel Miranda will star as King Arthur in a one-night-only benefit concert for Lincoln Center Theater March 4 at 6:30PM.
Directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher, the cast will also feature fellow Tony winners Ruthie Ann Miles (The King & I) as Nimue and Julie White (The Little Dog Laughed) as Morgan Le Fey, Solea Pfeiffer (Hamilton, Encores!' Song for a New World) as Guenevere, Jordan Donica (My Fair Lady) as Sir Lancelot, Dakin Matthews (To Kill a Mockingbird) as Merlyn, Ethan Slater (SpongeBob SquarePants) as Mordred, and Tony nominee Jenn Colella (Come From Away), Jason Danieley (Pretty Woman), and Bonnie Milligan (Head Over Heels) as three of the Knights of the Round Table.
Ted Sperling will conduct a 30-piece orchestra performing the original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang and choral arrangements by Trude Rittman. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.
The Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical includes well-known songs as “If Ever I Would Leave You,” and “What Do The Simple Folk Do?”. Adapted from the T.H. White novel The Once and Future King, Camelot follows the legend of King Arthur, who becomes king after pulling the sword Excalibur from its stone. Arthur builds his just kingdom alongside Queen Guenevere, but complications arise when she and Lancelot become entwined and Arthur's illegitimate son arrives in Camelot.
The original production starred Richard Burton as King Arthur, Julie Andrews as Queen Guenevere, and Robert Goulet as Sir Lancelot.
Miranda, who recently returned to the role of Alexander Hamilton during the Puerto Rico engagement of the third national tour of Hamilton, makes his return to the New York stage with this performance. (His Freestyle Love Supreme began January 30, with Miranda expected to make a surprise appearance or two throughout the run.) He was recently nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance in Mary Poppins Returns alongside Emily Blunt.
