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IT’S GOOD TO BE KING!

 

LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS

WILL WEAR THE CROWN OF KING ARTHUR

IN LERNER AND LOEWE’S CAMELOT!  

McCoy Rigby Entertainment and Liza Lerner have announced that film, television and Broadway star, LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS will star as ‘King Arthur’ in the national tour of Lerner and Loewe’s CAMELOT beginning in Los Angeles in September, 2007.  CAMELOT, a Broadway San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation, also stars Rachel York and James Barbour, and will play the San Diego Civic Theatre from September 25 - 30, 2007  

This is a much anticipated return to the stage for Phillips after his award winning star turn in The King And I (1996) on Broadway.  He received multiple awards and nominations including a Tony Award® nomination, the New York Outer Critics Circle Award and a Theatre World Award for his performance as the King of Siam.  

Lou Diamond Phillips burst on the film scene to critical acclaim in 1987’s La Bamba as rocker Ritchie Valens, building a major fan base; followed with another break-out performance in 1988’s Stand and Deliver (Independent Spirit Award, Best Supporting Actor; Golden Globe nomination); co-starred with Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland in Young Guns and Young Guns II; and received a Blockbuster Entertainment Award and Lone Star Film and Television Award for Courage Under Fire.  

Born in the Philippines and raised in Texas , Phillips is the son of a naval engineer and has three beautiful daughters.  He is of Filipino, Hawaiian, Chinese, Spanish, Scottish Irish and Cherokee Indian ancestry; holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of Texas at Arlington and performed extensively at Stage West and Casa Mañana in Fort Worth .  Currently the spokesperson for ACT Today! (Autism Cure and Tre atment Today); he was a spokesperson for California Teacher’s Association Read Across America Campaign and SAG Foundation’s Book Pals Program; and supports Helping Hands/Boys Town, Artists Against Racism, and NACCTEP.  

Glenn Casale directs this daring re-staging of the original script, adapted with an edgy new concept by Michael Lerner; co-produced by Liza Lerner, Alan Jay Lerner’s son and daughter respectively.  The glamorous and beautiful Rachel York, seen in Broadway’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Victor/Victoria, and on tour in Kiss Me Kate, is torn between two lovers as Guenevere.  James Barbour, the dashing leading man of Broadway’s Assassins, Jane Eyre, Urinetown, and Beauty and the Beast, is Lancelot.  And a local San Diego couple return home with the tour: Robert Townsend as Sir Sagramore (natl tour Grease; Starlight’s Miss Saigon, Sweeney Todd, Triumph of Love; REP’s A Christmas Carol)and Jill Townsend (natl tour A Chorus Line; NCT’s The Fantasticks; Starlight’s Roar of the Greasepaint, Once Upon a Mattress) in several roles.  

With a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Lowe, Camelot’s splendid, memorable score includes the romantic and haunting “If Ever I Would Leave You,” the captivating “How to Handle a Woman” and the majestic “Camelot.” Re-discover the grandeur of one of history’s greatest love stories.  

Camelot joins a great Broadway/San Diego roster that includes Hairspray, Stomp, All Shook Up, Avenue Q, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Go, Diego, Go Live!, Mamma Mia!, Chicago, Jersey Boys, Rat Pack - Live At The Sands, Cirque Eloize: Rain, Jesus Christ Superstar with Ted Neeley, Cats and The Phantom Of The Opera.  Join us for great theatre today!  

 

WHEN:                                 September 25 - 30, 2007  

WHERE:                              San Diego Civic Theatre , 3rd and B Street , downtown San Diego  

PERFORMANCE               Tuesday & Thursday at 7:30PM

TIMES:                                 Wednesday at 7PM

Friday at 8PM

                                                Saturday at 2PM & 8PM

Sunday at 1PM & 6PM  

TICKETS:                            $20--$72   Ticket OnSale date tba  

TICKET PURCHASE:      Civic Theatre Ticket Office, (619) 570-1100

                                                Ticketmaster  (619) 220-TIXS      Group Discounts (619) 564-3001  

THEATRE ADDRESS:     3rd and B Street , 1100 Third Ave.  

PARKING:                           Paid parking available in the San Diego Concourse Parking structure.           

WEBSITE:                          www.broadwaysd.com