According to Scott Dunlap, who conceived and is now directing the Chattanooga Theater Center’s revival of the musical, Camelot, the show’s lyricist, Alan Jay Lerner, went to school with John F. Kennedy. As Scott Dunlap sees it, Lerner was using the tales of king Arthur and his knights of the round table as a metaphor for the ideals espoused by then-presidential candidate, John F. Kennedy.
Camelot opens June 17.
