Kamar brilliantly portrayed the boxer Lopez in the March 2002 City Center Encores!® production of "Golden Boy" directed by Walter Bobbie and starring Alfonso Ribiero as Joe. Kamar's character, Lopez, is a boxer and the #1 contender in the world who ultimately dies in the ring in a very elaborately choreographed fight in the finale.

"Wayne Cilento's sleek, sensuous choreography expertly evokes the '60s, while Michael Olajide's fight choreography for the big showdown between Wellington and the champion is astonishingly athletic." --Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press: Friday, March 22, 2002

"Under Walter Bobbie's brisk direction, with tasty choreography by Wayne Cilento, this "Golden Boy" hustles right along on fast feet, like a bantamweight in prime condition, from song to song. . . . The top-flight cast members assembled for this production play even the hokiest moments clean and straight. And whenever the music starts up, something wonderful nearly always happens, with Rob Fisher's Coffee Club Orchestra in exquisite form: from the all-percussion introduction (to which a corps de ballet of boxers in training set their rhythms) to an 11 o'clock call-and-response anthem of independence sung by Joe and a gospel choir. . . . Musical aficionados are always looking to fall in love with an unfamiliar show; this production provides a genuinely gold opportunity to fall hard." -- Ben Brantley, The New York Times: March 23, 2002

"It's script sharpened to the essentials by Suzan-Lori Parks, "Golden Boy" is staged with speed and sizzle by Walter Bobbie ("Chicago") and aptly choreographed in a hullabaloo of 1960s dance styles by Wayne Cilento. . . . The boxing scenes that accompany the story are sharply performed, the fighters' moves expressively punctuated by the percussion and drums of Ralph Burns' exciting original orchestrations, reconstructed by Don Sebesky for this concert. . . . Talk about a winning streak...How the Encores! experts are able to make a concert version seemingly come across as a full-fledged Broadway show is miraculous, but it's something they've been doing brilliantly since 1994." -- Michael Sommers, The Star-Ledger: Saturday, March 23, 2002

"Golden Boy", the 1964 musical based on Clifford Odets' Depression play, is one of those Broadway curiosities that are perfect for the City Center Encores! series. With a score by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, written only a few years after "Bye Bye Birdie", the show was a vehicle for Sammy Davis Jr., then at the height of his fame. Encores! has assembled a topnotch cast to tackle it. . . . Director Walter Bobbie has taken the book seriously and staged it well. Wayne Cilento has given us some sizzling dances. Michael Olajide has staged the climactic fight superbly. . . . This is exactly the kind of show Encores! should do, and they couldn't have done it better." -- Howard Kissle, NY Daily News: Saturday, March 23, 2002