Playbill for the June 1964 production of Camelot at the National Theatre in Washington, DC, 6 x 9, 36 pages, signed on the front cover in blue ballpoint by Robert F. Kennedy. In fine condition.
John F. Kennedy and Alan Jay Lerner were classmates in prep school at Choate—where they worked together on the yearbook staff—and at Harvard, where they graduated as members of the class of 1940. Lerner had famously collaborated with Frederick Loewe on the 1960 musical Camelot, which was reportedly JFK's favorite musical and has since come to symbolize the Kennedy era. In the aftermath of tragedy, Jacqueline Kennedy famously quoted Lerner's lyrics from 'Camelot (Reprise)' in a December 1963 interview with Life magazine: 'Don't let it be forgot / That once there was a spot / For one brief shining moment that was known / As Camelot.'
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