| "Face to Face," cut from CAMELOT | |
| Posted by: Erik_Haagensen 12:18 pm EDT 08/05/24 | |
| In reply to: re: what about the show boat overture - AlanScott 07:55 pm EDT 08/03/24 | |
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| A particularly obscure example of music remaining in underscoring is the cut song "Face to Face" from CAMELOT, sung by Guenevere just after Lancelot performs his miracle at the jousting match. It was replaced by "Before I Gaze at You Again." In putting together THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF ALAN JAY LERNER, editors Dominic McHugh and Amy Asch were unable to find the lyric to "Face to Face." However, there is a lovely, medieval-sounding melody in the underscoring of the scene in which Lancelot is knighted near the end of Act 1 that for years I thought could be "Face to Face." It occurs just as Lancelot enters and faces Guenevere and Arthur, and it exists nowhere else in the score. The title "Face to Face" scans to it. When I had the chance to ask Tony Walton about it (he was Ms. Andrews' husband at the time), he confirmed that, indeed, it is the melody of "Face to Face." Now if only someone could find the lyric, we'd have one more Lerner and Loewe song. Interestingly, Dominic McHugh asked Ms. Andrews about the song, and she said that she had no memory of singing it at all. Nevertheless, she did in Toronto, CAMELOT's first out-of-town engagement, and possibly in Boston, it's second, as the song was still listed in the Boston program. |
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