Finally came to SF and saw it opening weekend, and I have to say these sentiments echo mine. There are few things quite so insufferable as MP fans who simply parrot the old skits ad nauseum, and this felt like an extended rendition of that. A few of the new songs were cute, but I’m so tired of meta-theater, all coy with the self-referential material instead of having a story and characterization. Brecht or Beckett is fine, but simply recycling old material just feels more and more like laziness (especially when it feels like a rehash as opposed to a re-evaluation). Yes, I know it won a bunch of Tonys, but I was seriously unimpressed. 
Book, lyrics, and music by Eric Idol, former Python and current Brit.
Well, any smart producer is going to consider his audience. Spamalot even more than most touring shows adapts itself to its current venue.
I like the fact that it’s not trying to duplicate the movie. If I wanted that I’d go see “Dirty Dancing.”
Izzo.
For anyone in LA, it’s playing at the Ahmanson from July 7 - September 6. If you don’t want to pay full price, they have $20 “Hot Tix,” which are limited view seats (you’re on the end of the aisle). They go on sale a few weeks before the first show. I saw the pre-Broadway run of 9 to 5 this way and was in the 7th or 8th row. Very cool.
Idle.:smack: No relation to Billy Idol.
Despite the fact I made that post over a year ago (check your dates when replying to old threads, kids!), the point I was making then was that the audience thought they “Got” Monty Python when it was fairly obvious they didn’t- or at least not in the way Python humour is intended to be “gotten”, if that makes sense.
Then, it was onto my next point about Why You Don’t Go To Camelot (Because it is a Silly Place, of course).
But like I said, this was a year ago, so it’s probably moot by now.
Gee, pops, I don’t see an expiration date. The thread’s still here, you’re still here, Spamalot’s still here.
Not to me. But I’m an American, so maybe I just don’t get it. Thirty-some years of thinking I “got” Monty Python, and now I learn I was probably deluding myself and laughing for the wrong reasons. Damn.
Of course, Spamalot was written for Americans, so at least I have that. I guess you wouldn’t get it though.
ETA: I just realized I can also get Terry Gilliam’s animations. Whew.
I was referring to the audience in Las Vegas with whom I saw the show- nearly all of whom were Americans. And at any rate, I’m no longer interested in trying to clarify or expand upon a passing observation I made a year ago, as it’s academic at this point anyway.
Let’s not make this persona, TWDuke and Martini Enfield.
Just for the record: there’s no expiration date for threads in Cafe Society, unlike some of the other forums on this site. So, no zombie threads in the forum where we talk about zombie movies. Weird, huh?