‘Camelot’ stars charm way into viewers’ hearts

Ah, Camelot �” “Where the tables are round and the relationships triangular.” One cannot help but be captivated by the trio of Lou Diamond Phillips, Rachel de Benedet and Matt Bogart in the recent rendition of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s “Camelot,” now on stage at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines through Sunday. Phillips may be most familiar as Ritchie Valens in the 1987 film “La Bamba” or as an outlaw comrade of Billy the Kid in “Young Guns” and “Young Guns II,” but the actor also is building a respectable stage career, having earned a Tony nomination for Best Actor for his performance of the King of Siam in the Broadway production of “The King and I.” His portrayal of Camelot’s hero, King Arth