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I saw Spamalot last night.
The show is cheerful silliness. A lot of it was familiar from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but there's a bunch of rather self-referential new material about the knights being told to put on a musical, and
"Once in every show there's a song like this" and a character listed in the program as "Diva" singing "What happened to my part" There is a distinct shortage of female roles, though lots of scantily clad dancers there to give a Vegas feel to things and because there are people in the theatre audience who like looking at pretty young women.
We also got quite a bit of joking about Lancelot being gay, definitely on the flaming/queen side of things (including references to "YMCA"). Similarly, a running joke about how the Round Table couldn't make it on Broadway because none of them were Jewish.
Some quick jokes were clearly dropped in recently, and may be gone in six months.
The show ended with an audience sing-along of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life."
One of our party needs to be reminded that even if he's seen the show before and a lot of it is taken from a movie, I don't want to hear the lines from beside me a few seconds before they're spoken on stage.
TDF, probably about half price, orchestra seats but fairly far to one side. My only complaint about the seats is that they keep making them smaller, and soon nobody old enough to attend the theatre alone will be able to sit comfortably.
The show is cheerful silliness. A lot of it was familiar from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but there's a bunch of rather self-referential new material about the knights being told to put on a musical, and
"Once in every show there's a song like this" and a character listed in the program as "Diva" singing "What happened to my part" There is a distinct shortage of female roles, though lots of scantily clad dancers there to give a Vegas feel to things and because there are people in the theatre audience who like looking at pretty young women.
We also got quite a bit of joking about Lancelot being gay, definitely on the flaming/queen side of things (including references to "YMCA"). Similarly, a running joke about how the Round Table couldn't make it on Broadway because none of them were Jewish.
Some quick jokes were clearly dropped in recently, and may be gone in six months.
The show ended with an audience sing-along of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life."
One of our party needs to be reminded that even if he's seen the show before and a lot of it is taken from a movie, I don't want to hear the lines from beside me a few seconds before they're spoken on stage.
TDF, probably about half price, orchestra seats but fairly far to one side. My only complaint about the seats is that they keep making them smaller, and soon nobody old enough to attend the theatre alone will be able to sit comfortably.
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