FTA: "This is especially true for musicals produced during the 1950s and 1960s, a time when widespread social upheaval -- from the trauma of the Second World War to the polarization of the civil rights movement, the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. gave rise to fears and frustrations so profound, their traces can be found in even that most escapist of artforms."

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John and Jacqueline Kennedy's favorite Broadway musical was Camelot, starring Quebec-descent Robert Goulet (bass-baritone), Englishwoman Julie Andrews (soprano), and Welchman Richard Burton (baritone).