# Any NY'ers going to see Spam-a-lot? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180 "2005-03-18T19:10:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/1 "2005-03-18T19:10:23Z")
[Spam-a-lot](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4360797.stm) I wonder if it will ever make it to Detroit in my lifetime. I so want to see it! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/2 "2005-03-18T19:20:13Z")
It’s actually **Spamlot** and I saw it in previews and almost started a thread on it. It is wonderful! Hank Azarea and David Hyde Pierce get to show a wacky, physical comedy side that doesn’t come across on television, Tim Curry is always good (though I wonder what Doug Sills could have done with the role if he hadn’t backed out) and newcomer Sara Ramirez holds her own against the guys. The show is part silly British humour, and part tribute tot he Great White Way. Ticket are going for beaucoup bucks now, good luck getting them this year. And yes, there will no doubt be some road companies and foreign productions. IN the meantime, get the cast CD. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/3 "2005-03-18T19:23:59Z")
Yes yes yes! April 16th! I’m really psyched; it seems to be a perfect cross-over for a python/theatre geek. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/4 "2005-03-18T19:36:02Z")
I’m going to NY in about a month for the first and probably only time, so I feel justified in laying out the bucks for this one. We haven’t actually purchased tickets yet, but if we decide to go, I’ll be back to the thread to do the happy dance! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/5 "2005-03-18T19:38:55Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I’m going to NY in about a month for the first and probably only time, so I feel justified in laying out the bucks for this one. We haven’t actually purchased tickets yet, but if we decide to go, I’ll be back to the thread to do the happy dance! A MONTH FROM NOW? Go on line this second and do a happy dance if you can find tickets at any price. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/6 "2005-03-18T19:49:27Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Tim Curry is always good (though I wonder what Doug Sills could have done with the role if he hadn’t backed out) Just a small nitpick – Tim Curry was _always_ supposed to be King Arthur, AFAIK. Doug Sills was supposed to play Sir Galahad. Anyway … going to see the show on May 7th. My birthday present. 5th row. Whoo hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/7 "2005-03-18T19:50:26Z")
My sister’s coming East in June and has got tickets for us to see it. I haven’t seen a B’way show since the last Ziegfeld _Follies_ closed . . . too expensive for me! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/8 "2005-03-18T20:04:05Z")
I’m coming in next month to see it. There were tickets available from the online brokers for every single performance. Sold out must only mean that the brokers have snapped them up. Make sure you comparison shop. We found our tickets on [bargintix.com](http://bargintix.com) for $100 less per seat than what were obviously the same tickets elsewhere. They called to confirm and we got the tickets by next day Fed Ex. Not Orchestra seats, obviously. I wouldn’t pay over $300 a ticket unless Graham Chapman came back to star. And hey, **Eve**. I didn’t know you were back. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/9 "2005-03-18T20:40:28Z")
I’m not a New Yorker, but friends are taking me up to NY for the April 16th show as a birthday present. It’s my first real Broadway show–I’m so excited! ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/10 "2005-03-18T20:41:43Z")
The local Minnesota paper had a story about the Hormel executives getting tickets to opening night (Hormel is the company that makes Spam). They are enjoying the tie-in to Monty Python publicity and are eating it up… (sorry) They even have a display at their new Spam Museum in Austin Minnesota about the Spam skit. Love it when corporations have a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Sinusoidal\_Saurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@Sinusoidal\_Saurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinusoidal_Saurus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/11 "2005-03-18T21:07:00Z")
I’ll be there for the May 28th show. It’s my first trip to New York, just like a couple of others in this thread. If you haven’t looked for tickets yet, do it soon! We got ours at the beginning of January, and May 28th was the first weekend show with decent seats still available. I’m a little concerned that the original cast won’t stick around forever…does that happen often? SS ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/12 "2005-03-18T21:08:22Z")
Just got tickets for June 28th. It’s my daughters birthday present this year; last year we did “Wicked” and it was wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/13 "2005-03-18T22:04:29Z")
April 15. A business associate got tix, found out she couldn’t go, and gave 'em to me. I hear it’s sold out for, like, the next two years. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/14 "2005-03-18T22:10:09Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > April 15. > > A business associate got tix, found out she couldn’t go, and gave 'em to me. > > I hear it’s sold out for, like, the next two years. Tickets are available, but the weekends are pretty well booked for a while. If you look for weekday tickets though, you can probably have more luck finding them. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/15 "2005-03-18T22:53:17Z")
I got tix for myself and a friend when they were first available – at a discount, too. We actually got them as birthday presents for each other since we both have b-days in the beginning of May. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/16 "2005-03-21T12:50:12Z")
May 7th. _happy dance!_ ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/17 "2005-03-21T12:52:15Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > May 7th. > > _happy dance!_ Matinee or evening show? (We’ll be at the matinee.) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/18 "2005-03-21T13:32:36Z")
Matinee. Got any idea what you’re planning to wear yet? ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/19 "2005-03-21T15:09:30Z")
I’d considered going when it was in Chicago - found out afterward Tim Curry & David Hyde Pierce were in it & am now kicking myself for not going! FWIW - [Tim Curry](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4535516) (3/15/05) and [Eric Idle](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4504629) (2/18/05) on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross - they both talk a little about the show. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180/20 "2005-03-21T15:51:13Z")
Saw it in previews. The wife had heard some scuttlebutt from people working on the project that it was the funniest thing ever, without a single slow moment, and packed end to end with rolling in the aisle laughter. Ok, it didn’t exactly measure up to that lofty expectation, but it was a very well done show, lots of laughs, beautiful sets, and good acting. We agreed with the NY Times reviewer on where the show shined brightest and where it was a bit weaker. The NY Daily News was the exact opposite, and the NY Post reviewer must have a stake in the project. Spoilers for my review [spoiler]I thought the bits torn directly from the movie were the weakest. The pacing and design of the bits is best on the silver screen, and don’t work quite as well on the stage. For instance, the early coconut/swallow bit is great on screen, you can watch the two guards chatting back and forth, the camera panning between them. On the stage, King Arthur is standing on the stage with Patsy, thumb up his butt, doing nothing, waiting for the two guards to finish their argument. On the screen, you never see Arthur standling idly by, on the stage, you can’t help but see him and all that dead air. I very much enjoyed the new bits for the theater production, and the bits that were more edited for the stage. I’m not dead and the killer rabbit both worked for me, a bit less the swallows and Knights who say “Ni!”. [/spoiler] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-nyers-going-to-see-spam-a-lot/295180.md?page=2)