Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Theatre Review: Spamalot
Yes, it's true.
I saw a musical.
It was actually very good. For fans of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the musical version called "Spamalot" has plenty of additional laughs to offer. Plenty of the old favorites, including the talk about sparrows and coconuts, the Black Knight, the Killer Bunny, Bring Out Your Dead, the discussion with Dennis about 'Working Classes', the French taunting (I wave my privates at your aunties...)... and on and on. The plot is roughly based on the movie, but bursting into song at every opportunity.
Thankfully, it's not just a cash-in on the movie, Spamalot takes clever deviations from the movie version. The Knights of Ni demand that King Arthur create a musical. One of the knights bursts into an extended skit about how they would never get on Broadway because they had no Jews in the cast. Lancelot embraces his gaydom, and the show bursts into a neon flamenco dance club with colored spotlights and house music thumping. The beautiful and talented Lady of the Lake steals the show with several overly-self-aware songs like "This is the song that goes like this" and "What happened to my part?"
There's even a shot at Andrew Lloyd Webber.
If you didn't like the Holy Grail, then don't waste your time with Spamalot, but if you ever yelled at someone, "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!" then you owe it to yourself to see Spamalot.
KTHXBYE,
-CZ
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I saw a musical.
It was actually very good. For fans of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the musical version called "Spamalot" has plenty of additional laughs to offer. Plenty of the old favorites, including the talk about sparrows and coconuts, the Black Knight, the Killer Bunny, Bring Out Your Dead, the discussion with Dennis about 'Working Classes', the French taunting (I wave my privates at your aunties...)... and on and on. The plot is roughly based on the movie, but bursting into song at every opportunity.
Thankfully, it's not just a cash-in on the movie, Spamalot takes clever deviations from the movie version. The Knights of Ni demand that King Arthur create a musical. One of the knights bursts into an extended skit about how they would never get on Broadway because they had no Jews in the cast. Lancelot embraces his gaydom, and the show bursts into a neon flamenco dance club with colored spotlights and house music thumping. The beautiful and talented Lady of the Lake steals the show with several overly-self-aware songs like "This is the song that goes like this" and "What happened to my part?"
There's even a shot at Andrew Lloyd Webber.
If you didn't like the Holy Grail, then don't waste your time with Spamalot, but if you ever yelled at someone, "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!" then you owe it to yourself to see Spamalot.
KTHXBYE,
-CZ
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