Monty Python's SPAMalot Wins 5, no 3 Tony Awards

I don't get... by thr0n · 2005-06-07 00:44 · Score: 0

...the title. Wins 5, no 3 Tony Awards? I mean it won 3 out of the 5 it was nominated for, right? Just wondering...

Re:I don't get... by DrXym · 2005-06-07 00:47 · Score: 2, Informative

It's a bastardized and paraphrased line from the Spanish Inquisition sketch.
Re:I don't get... by Scarblac · 2005-06-07 00:50 · Score: 1

The musical is based on the film _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. A running gag in that film is the king who constantly says five when he means three.

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Re:I don't get... by hoofie · 2005-06-07 00:51 · Score: 1

I thought it was from The Holy Grail, when Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad et al have to answer the questions from the Bridgekeeper, namely 'What is your favourite colour ?'
Re:I don't get... by bjprice · 2005-06-07 00:52 · Score: 1

Actually it's a recurring joke from the original movie of The Holy Grail.
Arthur: Right! One!... Two!... Five! Galahad: Three sir! Arthur: Three! [angels sing] [boom]

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Re:I don't get... by REBloomfield · 2005-06-07 00:52 · Score: 4, Informative

No it isn't!

It's from the Holy Hand grenade sketch:

Brother Maynard:
And then the Lord spake, saying: "First, shalt thou take out the holy pin.
Then shalt thou count to three.
No more, no less.
*Three* shall be the number of the counting, and the number of the counting shall be three.
*Four* shalt thou not count, and neither count thou two, excepting that thou then goest on to three.
Five is RIGHT OUT. Once the number three, being the third number be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade to-wards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight,shall snuff it.
Amen."
All: Amen.

Arthur: Right! (pulls pin)
One!
Two!
Five!
Bedevere: Three, Sire!!
Arthur: Three! (throws hand grenade at the Killer Rabbit)
Re:I don't get... by Daytona955i · 2005-06-07 01:04 · Score: 1

Nope, Holy Grail quote, the Spanish Inquisition one went something like this:

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....
Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency....
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...
and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our four... no...
Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise...
I'll come in again.

etc...

And of course see other replies to see the Holy Grail quote. Most people don't really know the sketches but can quote the Holy Grail. It frustrates me because when someone makes a Grail joke, I think they are a python fan so then I make a joke from one of the sketches and they just look at me funny. Oh well.
Re:I don't get... by WormholeFiend · 2005-06-07 01:06 · Score: 1

Blue! No! AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaagh
Re:I don't get... by Punkrokkr · 2005-06-07 01:06 · Score: 2, Insightful

Wrong, it's from the bridge scene. Aurthur keeps saying they have to answer 5 questions, Galahad keeps correcting him saying it was 3.

ARTHUR:
He is the keeper of the Bridge of Death. He asks each traveller five questions--
GALAHAD:
Three questions.
ARTHUR:
Three questions. He who answers the five questions--
GALAHAD:
Three questions.
ARTHUR:
Three questions may cross in safety.

And you call yourselves geeks. You empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.

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Re:I don't get... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 01:07 · Score: 0

Oh look, this isn't a simple contadiction, it's a full on argument.

Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.

Not this ridiculous connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.

I asked for a simple contradiction . . .
Re:I don't get... by bjprice · 2005-06-07 01:15 · Score: 1

I said it was a recurring joke. And gave one example. Yours is another.

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Re:I don't get... by FreeUser · 2005-06-07 01:33 · Score: 1

I asked for a simple contradiction . . .

No, you didn't.

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Re:I don't get... by IAmTheDave · 2005-06-07 01:54 · Score: 1

Thank you - it's a running gag. Although it's most famously remembered for the hand-grenade bit, he says 5 when he means three throughout the movie.

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Re:I don't get... by pizen · 2005-06-07 01:55 · Score: 1

I thought this was abuse.
Re:I don't get... by Punkrokkr · 2005-06-07 02:04 · Score: 1

Apparently someone missed the intended humor of my previous post.

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Re:I don't get... by Bimo_Dude · 2005-06-07 02:04 · Score: 1

and ruthless efficiency....
... and a ruthless devotion to efficiency...

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Re:I don't get... by Clock+Nova · 2005-06-07 02:25 · Score: 1

No, this is having grits poured down your pants lessons.

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Re:I don't get... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 02:36 · Score: 0

Don't try and pretend it was a joke, you fart knocker.
Re:I don't get... by peekitty · 2005-06-07 03:04 · Score: 1

And of course see other replies to see the Holy Grail quote. Most people don't really know the sketches but can quote the Holy Grail. It frustrates me because when someone makes a Grail joke, I think they are a python fan so then I make a joke from one of the sketches and they just look at me funny. Oh well.

And they invariably quote the "Knights who say 'Ni'" which is arguably not the funniest moment in the movie. It's hard to beat Arthur "two sheds" Jackson or the RAF banter sketch- "Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your egg-and-fours and let's get the bacon delivered!"
Re:I don't get... by Mr.+Maestro · 2005-06-07 03:20 · Score: 1

Wow...once you have to explain a joke, it looses all its thunder. And this was FUNNY to start with. sigh.
Re:I don't get... by dkleinsc · 2005-06-07 03:21 · Score: 2, Informative

Actually, through the entire movie, Arthur says 5 when he means 3. For instance, he tells Lancelot to just answer the 5, no 3, questions the bridgekeeper asks him.

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Re:I don't get... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 03:39 · Score: 0

The bridgekeeper is also known as 'Tim the enchanter'

Obligitory quote:

KEEPER: Stop! What is your name?
GALAHAD: Sir Galahad of Camelot.
KEEPER: What is your quest?
GALAHAD: I seek the Grail.
KEEPER: What is your favorite color?
GALAHAD: Blue. No yel-- Auuuuuuuugh!
Re:I don't get... by schon · 2005-06-07 03:47 · Score: 1

The bridgekeeper is also known as 'Tim the enchanter'

Ahh, no.

He's also known as "the old man from Scene 23" (as Sir Bedemere says "Look, it's the old man from Scene 23!" when they see first see him at the Gorge of Eternal Peril.)

He was played by Terry Gilliam, Tim was played by John Cleese.
Re:I don't get... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 04:30 · Score: 0

Actually it is a running gag regarding the Malorey's Morte De Arthur - the source material for what we know as the Arthurian Legends - Round Tables, Camelot, etc. Malorey had references to the number 5 scattered through his tales for some silly symbolic reason. The joke is that the Monty Python use of 5 instead of 3 by King Arthur is about as subtle as Malorey's use of 5 throughout his tales.
Re:I don't get... by Vainglorious+Coward · 2005-06-07 04:31 · Score: 1

Tim was played by John Cleese.

No, Tim was played by Scottish comedian Billy Connelly

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Re:I don't get... by schon · 2005-06-07 05:29 · Score: 1

Tim was played by Scottish comedian Billy Connelly

Not according to the IMDB and my DVD (which I got this weekend for my birthday.) It was quite apparent (even to my wife, who unfortunately doesn't share my love of Python) that Tim was played by John Cleese (or, as my wife put it - "Hey, that's the guy from Fawlty Towers!")

Billy Connolly was never in the movie.
Re:I don't get... by Vainglorious+Coward · 2005-06-07 05:50 · Score: 1

My eyes and ears will have to disagree with IMDB, your DVD and your wife. Until I get home and watch my own DVD, I continue to claim that Tim the Enchanter was played by Billy Connelly. Come to think of it, isn't John Cleese actually in that scene, as Lanceleot?

Yes, I've done a quick google and found few references. I'll come back and eat crow tomorrow if I've had some kind of mental blackspot over this...

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Re:I don't get... by niktemadur · 2005-06-07 06:34 · Score: 1

And what an eccentric performance it was. Tim is the sorcerer who continuously discharges flames.

Ni

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Re:I don't get... by niktemadur · 2005-06-07 07:09 · Score: 1

I use two kinds of aftershave lotion:
Frankincense, Myrrh...
THREE kinds of aftershave lotion:
Frankincense, Myrrh, San...
FOUR kinds of aftershave lotion: Frankincense...

- Aftershave? Certainly sir, walk this way, please.
- If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need aftershave.

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Re:I don't get... by CodeHog · 2005-06-07 07:10 · Score: 1

You might want to get a headstart on that crow soup. I just watched the scene with Tim the Enchanter and no John Cleese beyond Tim. Also, no listing of Billy Connelly in the credits.

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Re:I don't get... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 08:38 · Score: 0

Hey, I'll be the first to suck it up if I'm wrong, promise. But I'll also demand extra glory and credit when I'm proven right. I'm not surprised there are no credits, this being a cameo appearance and all. I also know that there are plenty of references across the net to Tim being played by JC. I persist (for now ;) in maintaining that such references are wrong.

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Re:I don't get... by schon · 2005-06-07 15:26 · Score: 1

Until I get home and watch my own DVD

If you have the "Special Edition" DVD, put in disc 2 and check out the Cast directory - go to John Cleese, and it's right there - Tim is played by John Cleese.

isn't John Cleese actually in that scene, as Lanceleot?

Only in the shots where there is no Tim. (In the shots were we see Tim, we never see Lancelot.)

I'll come back and eat crow tomorrow if I've had some kind of mental blackspot over this

OK, I'll be waiting :o)
Re:I don't get... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 17:05 · Score: 0

I think someone needs to complain...

"help! help! I'm being oppressed! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!"

Headline by uglysad · 2005-06-07 00:44 · Score: 3, Funny

/applause

Re:Headline by Antoniojvr · 2005-06-07 02:00 · Score: 1

Spamelot!
It's only a model...
SHH!
Re:Headline by wyverspur · 2005-06-07 05:13 · Score: 1

And there was much rejoicing....

Only if... by Bananatree3 · 2005-06-07 00:45 · Score: 2, Interesting

they had an award for the best spam messages, I think This would win first place. This stuff is just bad, nasty, and it is down-right scamming!

Re:Only if... by evilbessie · 2005-06-07 01:19 · Score: 1

Yes it is downright scamming. But do you really think that someone is going to give away something for nothing?

This is more social engineering spam rather than nasty spam, the spoof bounce messages are bad spam for the uninitiated.

Really though if it is too good to be true and they don't even know your real name (unless you use it for your email address, even then you are very silly) and it's from anonymous source why even bother.

If it is too good to be true it is. NEVER TRUST EMAIL.
Re:Only if... by xtracto · 2005-06-07 01:44 · Score: 1

Interesting link, but I really hate when the pages render with a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong line and you have to scroll all the way to read one paragraph... maybe it is Fx fault... let me see.
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Mmm nope, IE also renders it that way.. I really hate it, is there any extension in Fx to make pages wordwrap ??

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Re:Only if... by HermanAB · 2005-06-07 02:22 · Score: 1

It is possible to wrap lines with a bookmarklet. I found this wraplines script with Google, but I don't know how to convert it into a bookmarklet:
<a href="javascript: var pres = document.getElementsByTagName('pre'); if(pres.len gth > 0) { if(pres.item(0).getAttribute('style') == null) { pres.item(0).setAttribute('style','white-space:-mo z-pre-wrap'); } else { pres.item(0).removeAttribute('style'); } } void 0; ">WrapLines</a>
It will need some experimentation.

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Re:Only if... by HermanAB · 2005-06-07 03:13 · Score: 1

The View Selection bookmarklet on this page: http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagedata.ht ml is another way to fix the problem.

Select the screwed up text and click the bookmarklet, to open the text in a new, properly wrapped window.

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Congrats to them by PhilippeT · 2005-06-07 00:45 · Score: 0

I would have loved it if it got more but 3 is still a nice number I just hope that I can see it one day.

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Re:Congrats to them by maxwell+demon · 2005-06-07 02:23 · Score: 5, Funny

but 3 is still a nice number I just hope that I can see it one day.

Here's a simple version of it: |||
The starred version of this is: ***
In English texts you'll see it as: three
In German texts you find it as: drei
In French texts, look out for: trois
In Italian texts you'll find: tre
As roman numeral, it's: III.
This is the decimal form: 3
In base 2, it's 11
However, computers will usually use 00000011
Or rather 0000000000000011
Actually, most systems today will use 00000000000000000000000000000011
And some even 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000011
Unless it's text, then they'll probably use 00110011
Which often is expressed as '\063'
Or as '\x33'

Seen enough of it? :-)

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Re:Congrats to them by PakProtector · 2005-06-07 10:16 · Score: 1

But you forgot the most important language of the middle ages!
[The Elder Doctor Jones]But In Latin, Three is Tres.[/The Elder Doctor Jones]

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5 no 3? by the_Bionic_lemming · 2005-06-07 00:45 · Score: 1

If we're going to do Monty Python bits - Can we send cmdrtaco to the "Being hit on the head lessons" room?

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Re:5 no 3? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 01:40 · Score: 0

No use if he's learned how to defend himself against an attack with a pointy stick!

On the other hand, noone expects ....

Let me be the first to say... by ink_13 · 2005-06-07 00:46 · Score: 5, Insightful

Why is this "IT" instead of regular news?

Re:Let me be the first to say... by Blob+Pet · 2005-06-07 00:52 · Score: 4, Funny

KNIGHTS OF NI:
Aaaaugh! Aaaugh!
HEAD KNIGHT:
Augh! Ohh! Don't say that word.
ARTHUR:
What word?
HEAD KNIGHT:
I cannot tell, suffice to say is one of the words the Knights of Ni cannot hear.

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Re:Let me be the first to say... by Scarblac · 2005-06-07 00:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Why is this "IT" instead of regular news?

IT'S... Monty Python's Flying Circus!

How often does the man have to say it?

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Re:Let me be the first to say... by Soko · 2005-06-07 00:55 · Score: 3, Funny

NI!!!

GAHHH!! He said the word we, the Knights who say - ummmm... who formerly said NI cannot say! Yes, he said IT! ARRRGHHH!!! Now I'm saying IT! I have to stop saying IT!!! OWWWW! Cut IT out! AhhhhWWWCHH!

*finish in a fit of blathering worthy of C/Net @ wwdc*

Soko

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Re:Let me be the first to say... by Basje · 2005-06-07 00:57 · Score: 1

because ...IT's... something completely different of course...

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Re:Let me be the first to say... by GweeDo · 2005-06-07 01:23 · Score: 0

"SPAM"alot...geez....how obvsious ;)

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Re:Let me be the first to say... by Aeron65432 · 2005-06-07 01:59 · Score: 1

Because you said "it"! No I said "it!" AHH WE ALL SAID "IT!"
Re:Let me be the first to say... by kzinti · 2005-06-07 03:57 · Score: 1

KNIGHTS OF NI:
Aaaaugh! He said it again! Aaaaaugh *I* said it!
Re:Let me be the first to say... by Brad1138 · 2005-06-07 16:02 · Score: 1

Why is this "IT" instead of regular news?

You will find the answer when you cut down the tallest tree in the forest with... A Herring!!

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Sara Ramirez by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 00:46 · Score: 0

Sara Ramirez absolutely deserved it. An amazing range, mastery of a multitude of musical styles, great comic timing... Fantastic!

Whoa by CodeHog · 2005-06-07 00:47 · Score: 5, Insightful

'ripped off'? Didn't most of the living cast support Spamalot? And last time I checked, Eric Idle,Dead Collector/Peasant 1/Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot/Roger the Shrubber, was the driving force behind it...Yeah I guess it was ripped off!

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Re:Whoa by Dorf+on+Perl · 2005-06-07 00:58 · Score: 1

Well, if you look at the little title card thingie here, you can see that Eric Idle is indeed proclaiming to all the world that he is shamelessly ripping himself (and the other Pythons) off. So yeah, ripped off. Never thought I'd link to the Tony Awards site but here I am, doing it.
Re:Whoa by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 00:58 · Score: 0

Actually... the official marketing stuff (at least early Chicago versions) even referred to it as 'ripped off'
Re:Whoa by hey! · 2005-06-07 01:02 · Score: 0

Yeah. Maybe people who think Spamalot is a rip-off could get together with the "George Lucas raped my childhood" crowd and form some kind of support group.

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Re:Whoa by aBlooMoon · 2005-06-07 01:16 · Score: 3, Informative

Just to clarify, "lovingly ripped off" is a Python-esque slogan, even posted prominently on the side of the theatre. :)

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Re:Whoa by robvs68 · 2005-06-07 01:21 · Score: 1

'ripped off'? Didn't most of the living cast support Spamalot? ... blah, blah, blah ...

[clueBat] Maybe the original post says, "lovingly ripped off..." because that is a bi-line in the Title of the show. [/clueBat]
Re:Whoa by CodeHog · 2005-06-07 01:42 · Score: 1

Well deserved taunts. My last sentence was less cynical than it may sound. Considering that Graham Chapman, aka King Arthur, is dead and that Monthy Python is not a creative force anymore (my opinion), I do agree that it is a rip off, however a lovingly one.
Either that or this is a taunt! You silly English ka nig its.

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Re:Whoa by Eric+Giguere · 2005-06-07 02:23 · Score: 1

Anyone who's a fan of the original should also check out the soundtrack album, officially called The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Most of the classic sequences from the film are on there, along with some additional bits. Quite a riot. And I'm old enough that I have it in original LP form. (LP = long pants, youngster)
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Re:Whoa by MartinB · 2005-06-07 02:47 · Score: 1

The other living Pythons (John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terries Gilliam and Jones) granted Eric the right to make the musical, although as nearly all of the material is new (and Eric-written), they're not getting very much from it.

Terry Jones is on record as saying that they didn't expect it to be as successful as it's been - otherwise they would have fought for a better deal.

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Re:Whoa by poot_rootbeer · 2005-06-07 04:11 · Score: 1

'ripped off'? Didn't most of the living cast support Spamalot?

All of the living Pythons responded to the concept with enthusiasm. The dead one may have, too.

The "ripped off" allegation is taken directly from the show's own marketing:
http://www.montypythonsspamalot.com/low_band/

(a little hard to read, but at least it's not the Flash version of the site)
Re:Whoa by Eil · 2005-06-07 04:22 · Score: 1

That sound you just heard was the sound of a joke-laiden sparrow doing mach 6 right over your head.
Re:Whoa by aweiland · 2005-06-07 04:38 · Score: 1

Not sure why this got moderated up as insightful.

Eric Idle wrote the book for it. Then he wrote the script. Then he and John DuPrez wrote the music and lyrics. Then Idle got the other Pythons to sign off on it (and they even offered to continue with their input and constructive criticism as the show took shape). Then John Cleese recorded the voice of God lines to be played in the show. Then Idle put a whitty sub-title about it being ripped off from the movie. Then the show made a lot of money. Then it won some Tony Awards.
Re:Whoa by Kiryat+Malachi · 2005-06-07 04:50 · Score: 1

[cluebat]Byline, not biline.[/cluebat]

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Re:Whoa by niktemadur · 2005-06-07 06:50 · Score: 1

They didn't see it coming? Incredible. If anybody should be aware of how large and devoted the cult of the Python is, it should be the Python itself.

At the very least, they should have taken their cue from the success of reconfiguring old ABBA songs and calling it "Mamma Mia", or the Queen musical for that matter. But what does it matter to them, really, considering they all made a considerable fortune in post-Python careers:
John Cleese made corporate training videos, Michael Palin had his BBC travelling series, Terry Jones is a successfull author, Terry Gilliam is a prominent film director, and Eric has this. Graham Chapman doesn't count, as he has wrung the curtain and joined the choir invisible, he is an ex-Graham.

For detecting what was staring at him in the face for years, Eric Idle deserves all of the following prizes: a punch in the throat, a kick in the kneecap, a dagger up the step, and a blow on the head.

"Henri Bergson"

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Re:Whoa by dj245 · 2005-06-07 07:43 · Score: 1

I do not support this musical. It has gotten me no financial gains, and I am as economically depressed as ever.
Thanks,
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I suppose he was the brother of Lancelot by Gopal.V · 2005-06-07 00:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Spamalot ... lancelot .. camelot ..

Well, I am Talkalot

And my favourite color is yellow, no blue .... auuughhh.

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Re:I suppose he was the brother of Lancelot by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 01:05 · Score: 0

We're knights of the round table, we dance whene're we're able.
We do routines, and border scenes, with footwork imp-e-cable;
We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and spamalot.

We're knights of the round table, our shows are for-mid-able
Though many times, we're given rhymes, that are quite un-sing-able
We're not so bad in Camelot, we sing from the Dia-phragm alot!

Though we're tough and able,
Quite in-de-fa-ti-gable,
Between our quests, we seek incest and impersonate Clark Gable,
It's a busy life in Camelot:

I have to push the pram-a-lot!

Huh? by islandrain · 2005-06-07 00:49 · Score: 1

Spamalot? It should be called Camelot!

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Re:Huh? by UncreativeMike · 2005-06-07 01:24 · Score: 1

Not to troll, but there is already a musical named Camelot. http://musicals.net/?sn=11&show=Camelot
Re:Huh? by donscarletti · 2005-06-07 02:43 · Score: 1

From a song in the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail":
We all live down in camelot, we eat ham and lamb and spammalot.
Monty Python is meant to be funny, the name camalot just isn't much of a laugh.

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Re:Huh? by Cable_Monkey · 2005-06-07 13:15 · Score: 1

Its only a model.

Re:I don't get...(SPOILER) by CodeHog · 2005-06-07 00:50 · Score: 2, Insightful

Not the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion. Actually it's from the scene with the Holy Handgranade. King Arthur would begin continue to 3 and would always miss 3. As in 1, 2, 4. Then someone would say '3 sir'.

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Always a fan... by ivanjs · 2005-06-07 00:50 · Score: 1

Now if I could only see the musical. Stuck in the Midwest... John

Re:Always a fan... by CodeHog · 2005-06-07 00:54 · Score: 4, Interesting

Too late, for now. It played in Chicago prior to moving to New York. It was a short run, the month of February if I recall correctly. I walked by the theater it played at a couple of times a week. Tickets were difficult to come by.

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Re:Always a fan... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 01:31 · Score: 0

The Chicago run started in 2004--I can't remember when it started, but I know it was going even in December. Chicago run ended in January, though.

I was at one of the last shows of that run.
Re:Always a fan... by mjolnir_ · 2005-06-07 02:31 · Score: 1

I had the good fortune to see it with my wife and a group of friends this past Saturday night.

Sadly, no http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/06/05/art s/carpet.slide.9.jpg Sara Ramirez at my show. Rawwwr.

Beg, borrow, steal or kill for tickets if you're a Python fan.
Re:Always a fan... by mangino · 2005-06-07 03:27 · Score: 1

It started 12/22 and ran into february. It was extended by 3 weeks. It was absolutely incredible!

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Re:Always a fan... by Jivecat · 2005-06-07 04:02 · Score: 1

Sadly, no Sara Ramirez at my show.
Too bad for you. As great as Curry, Hyde-Pierce, and Azaria were in the Chicago run, it's Sara Ramirez that made the show. Astounding singer in a wide range of musical styles, hot hot hot, and best of all, comedic sensibility and timing that put even Carol Cleveland to shame.

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Re:Always a fan... by mjolnir_ · 2005-06-16 06:55 · Score: 1

Microsoft on an IBM-powered game console, Apple on Intel CPUs, Dvorak was right (for once), and now musical theater discussions on /.?

Indeed a cold day in hell...

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About Time by Elitist_Phoenix · 2005-06-07 00:55 · Score: 3, Funny

Now if only I could find a gang of topless ladies to chase me off a cliff my life would be complete.

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Re:About Time by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 01:31 · Score: 0

I always wanted to be trapped in the castle with Zoot and the other lovelies with the spanking and the oral sex
Re:About Time by wed128 · 2005-06-07 02:52 · Score: 1

"Oh, I am afraid our life must seem very dull and quiet compared to yours. We are but eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between sixteen and nineteen and a half, cut off in this castle with no one to protect us! Oh, it is a lonely life -- bathing, dressing, undressing, making exciting underwear.... We are just not used to handsome knights."
Re:About Time by sconeu · 2005-06-07 04:11 · Score: 1

Sorry, too perilous for you!

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Re:About Time by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 05:38 · Score: 0

I bet you're gay.
Re:About Time by wed128 · 2005-06-07 05:45 · Score: 1

Can't i just have a little bit of peril?

The Tony Awards were on Sunday... by amstrad · 2005-06-07 00:55 · Score: 0, Troll

...why is this news on Tuesday?

Re:The Tony Awards were on Sunday... by tomhudson · 2005-06-07 01:23 · Score: 1

You're right - normally the editors would get around to posting this on Friday. Guess we'll just have to settle for leftover dupe spamALOT on Friday.
Re:The Tony Awards were on Sunday... by farker+haiku · 2005-06-07 02:24 · Score: 1

It takes a while to come up with a quality headline like that. And with headlines like this, who needs fark?

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Ad AI? by sepluv · 2005-06-07 00:55 · Score: 2, Informative

The ad on at the top of the page featured a picture of John Cleese with the following text:

Suffering from Backup Trauma? Check out this hilarious new video starring John Cleese

It goes to http://www.backuptrauma.com/. LOL.

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Just a tip... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 00:56 · Score: 2, Informative

If you were planning on catching "Spamalot" this summer, you can pretty much either pay a scalper or forget about it. As I found out last night, it's more-or-less sold slam out through Labor Day.

Yes, even if you are Arthur, King of the Britons.

Re:Just a tip... by Leontes · 2005-06-07 02:11 · Score: 1

is this the right room for an argument? Bah, tickets smickets, the last time someone said it would be impossible to get into a broadway show, I was able to wait in line on thursday for about an hour and easily get tickets along with at least two hundred and fifty other people. And this was the Producers! Mind you, this was in 2001. In September. Two days after a little incident down town. Okay. Maybe hoping on another major terrorist incident isn't a good way to go on the ticket front, either realistically or as far as karma is concerned. I think I need hitting on the head lessons.
Re:Just a tip... by agilen · 2005-06-07 02:39 · Score: 1

Its not too difficult to get tickets off of Ebay. Yes, you'll pay more than face value, but I managed to find some decent tickets, 3 days before the saturday evening show, for $30 more than face value. Not too bad, and I'd suggest seeing it before Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce, and Hank Azaria leave the show.
Re:Just a tip... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 02:54 · Score: 0

If you are in NY, find out when the box office opens. Get in line a couple of hours before it opens. Ask for cancellation tickets for that days performance. For 1-2 tickets, it's amazing what you can get. And great seats. Even if you have 2-4 people, if you can stand to sit apart, you can still get tickets. Of course, there is no guarantee so if there aren't any tickets you have to make other plans, but it's a great way of getting hot tickets.
Re:Just a tip... by DG · 2005-06-07 03:09 · Score: 1

It looks like it's sold out through until 2006. Playing with an online ticket broker (me an' the missus have been toying with the idea of a trip out to New Yawk to see it) the earliest show I could find open was Jan 06 2006.

Prices seem to run $120-$250 depending on seats. What is the going scalped price?

Niner downloaded (from iTunes, piss off) the soundtrack, and the new material rocks. I just about fell out of my chair at "We'll Never Succeed on Broadway".

I wonder if the original cast will make it to Toronto....

DG

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Re:Just a tip... by cdkayak · 2005-06-07 03:17 · Score: 1

I think the box office opens around 9:30 or 10:00 AM. We got there about an hour before that & were able to get tickets the third day it was open.
Re:Just a tip... by SoCalEd · 2005-06-07 04:51 · Score: 1

King of the whooo? Who are the Britons?

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Re:Just a tip... by gfreeman · 2005-06-08 00:24 · Score: 1

I'd suggest seeing it before Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce, and Hank Azaria leave the show.

And when would that be? I have tickets for the first week in August!

Yeah, I'll be sightseeing in NYC for the week, but I really wanna see those guys in the show.

What's a canukised brit to do?

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Re:Just a tip... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-08 01:33 · Score: 0

I will give you these tickets but FIRST you must cut down the largest tree in the forest with .......... A HERRING!!

IMO... by dan.mongeau · 2005-06-07 00:59 · Score: 2, Interesting

It should have won more Tonys. It was a great show. They picked up on many small things from the movie and a bunch of completely new stuff.

Only thought they could have done better with the black Knight scene...

Re:IMO... by inigomntoya · 2005-06-07 04:48 · Score: 1

... and a bunch of completely new stuff

Don't you mean, "... something completely different" ?

Although, it wasn't in the Grail... It is still related, I dare say!

What it means by ducttapekz · 2005-06-07 01:00 · Score: 5, Informative

To all of you who haven't watched the movie recently enough to get the title, see if this rings a bell:

"And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

Amen.

Right! One... two... five!

Three, sir!

Three!

[boom]

PS: Don't sue me.

Re:What it means by tourvil · 2005-06-07 01:59 · Score: 3, Funny

To all of you who haven't watched the movie recently enough to get the title...

Come on man, this is Slashdot... Slashdot...
Re:What it means by brilinux · 2005-06-07 02:52 · Score: 2, Interesting

Yeah, it is rather sad, but we were discussing trees in my graph theory class, and we got into a discussion about different names for them, and I commented that "shrub" is probably more common in the UK than the US, whereas "bush" is more common here, and EVERYONE in the class was thinking Holy Grail at that point, except the professor who thought that it was a political thing. Oh, when nerds get together...

I did see the musical, though, and it was excellent.
Re:What it means by Snard · 2005-06-07 06:28 · Score: 1

Yeah, it is rather sad, but we were discussing trees in my graph theory class, and we got into a discussion about different names for them...
The Larch.

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Re:What it means by Nefarious+Wheel · 2005-06-07 15:24 · Score: 1

Thy foe. Thy, you coffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!

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Instead of a Tony Award... by Nova+Express · 2005-06-07 01:03 · Score: 3, Funny

...they should have been given a shubbery.

Interesting how The Light in the Piazza won more Tonys, but not Best Musical.

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phoneticly its. by tacroy · 2005-06-07 01:06 · Score: 1

Iky iky putang zump boong un gouzin. And I didnt have to look that up....my wife would be so proud.

no, no, no... by jbarr · 2005-06-07 01:15 · Score: 1

Um, isn't this a paraphrase of the discussion between the guy on the mountain and one of Arthur's followers when being asked about the quest and the grail? When he is asked the color and he says something like "blue...no, green" and is summarily cast into the gorge?

(Sorry for the vagueness of the above. I forget the names....)

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Re:no, no, no... by CodeHog · 2005-06-07 01:25 · Score: 2, Informative

As some of the other posters pointed out, it's a reoccuring gag throughout the movie. The scene you're talking about is with a bridgekeeper where they knights have to answer 3 questions correctly to cross. The gag about the air velocity of a swallow is another one like this. How do you know so much about swallows?

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and after the musical by Errtu76 · 2005-06-07 01:21 · Score: 2, Funny

a big police car arrives and arrests the entire cast!

Re:and after the musical by sharkb8 · 2005-06-07 01:48 · Score: 1

No, they pull a member of the audience up on stge and take a polaroid of him with the cast. You see the grail was under his seat the entire time. THe Show I went to, it was seat b101, down front.
Re:and after the musical by Medieval_Gnome · 2005-06-07 02:56 · Score: 1

Are you sure it wasn't A101? That's what it was when I saw it, and I can't imagine they'd have too many props for which seat it's in.

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Re:and after the musical by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 02:58 · Score: 0

It was C101 when I went, and A101 when a friend went.

We asked for C101's autgraph. She was flummoxed. :)
Re:and after the musical by Sanguis+Mortuum · 2005-06-07 06:09 · Score: 1

Thanks for ruining it for me if I ever go and see it, :-/
Re:and after the musical by zrk · 2005-06-07 06:38 · Score: 1

After the show, my friends and I debated this, and we came to the conclusion that they have a few different props. 5, no 3, would suffice.

Monty Python by Squalid05 · 2005-06-07 01:21 · Score: 1

"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of ELDERBERRYS" NI!

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Re:Monty Python by OrinNYC · 2005-06-07 01:28 · Score: 1

I fart in your general direction!

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Re:Monty Python by joeytmann · 2005-06-07 05:12 · Score: 1

I wiggle my private parts at your aunties...now go away or I will taunt you a second time.

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And there was by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 01:23 · Score: 0

much rejoicing.

Re:And there was by Mazem · 2005-06-07 10:33 · Score: 1

...yaaay...
Re:And there was by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 10:38 · Score: 0

And then they were forced to eat Robin's Minstrels.

I've just got to say... by aBlooMoon · 2005-06-07 01:23 · Score: 5, Informative

It was the best Broadway show I've been to...

David Hyde Pierce is the perfect Sir Robin, Hank Azaria is the perfect Lancelot, Sara Ramirez was a wonderful Lady of the Lake, and we all know John Cleese is pretty close to being God anyway. My main problem was Tim Curry as King Arthur. While he was excellent, he did seem a bit...old.

Overall, a fun night...it will be revisited, if I can get decent tickets again, which probably won't be the case for another year at least.

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Re:I've just got to say... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 02:03 · Score: 0

Sadly on the night we went Tim Curry wasn't in it. However, everybody else was excellent, particularly Hank Azaria, who does such a good John Cleese that at times I forgot it wasn't him.

Must go again...
Re:I've just got to say... by aBlooMoon · 2005-06-07 02:20 · Score: 1

Exactly. Perfect right down to the french tower guard accents talking about "English kahniggets". :D

I have heard rumors of him leaving either at the end of this month or next, though, which is a shame.

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Re:I've just got to say... by Astin · 2005-06-07 02:29 · Score: 1

He's leaving for 6 months to film the next season of Huff. Then he's back. Alan Tudyk is replacing him in the interim.

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Re:I've just got to say... by bitrott · 2005-06-07 02:33 · Score: 1

It wasn't however, the best musical out this year. That award should have gone to 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', the funniest and wittiest musical on the Great White Way at the moment. Spamalot, while fun, devolves 1/2-way through into a 'Follie's' format musical, all but jettisoning the Python feel for Broadway appeal. Unfortunately, 'Dirty', and other very excellent musicals are overshadowed by Python's hype. That's the business though. Think of how many excellent shows languished while the Webber musicals made bank.
Re:I've just got to say... by Captain+Nitpick · 2005-06-07 05:21 · Score: 1

He's leaving for 6 months to film the next season of Huff. Then he's back. Alan Tudyk is replacing him in the interim.

"We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'Camelot'."

"I fart in your general direction. You mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh..."

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IT'S headed to the UK... by OakDragon · 2005-06-07 01:25 · Score: 5, Funny

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2004580002-2005 260250,00.html

I just hope they get this kind of humor over there...

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Re:IT'S headed to the UK... by VJ42 · 2005-06-07 01:51 · Score: 1, Informative

You do realise that "this kind of humour" was invented over here. Monty python is British; it's humour doubly so. I'm just supprised that you get it over there.

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Re:IT'S headed to the UK... by OakDragon · 2005-06-07 02:02 · Score: 1

I do realize that; I guess my post was a little "dry" :)

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Re:IT'S headed to the UK... by Quiet_Desperation · 2005-06-07 02:07 · Score: 1

So seeing as you completely missed the humor of the parent post, the answer is no? :-)

Hey, I tease. I grew up so immersed in British comedy (Anglophile parents, don't you know) that I barely relate to most American style comedy.

My parents, now that they are retired, basically just have BBC America on all day.

What the heck is Rik Mayall up to?
Re:IT'S headed to the UK... by VJ42 · 2005-06-07 02:08 · Score: 1

Sorry, althought I use it alot IRL I often fail too spot Irony and sarcasm on the net. esp. here at /. :)

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Re:IT'S headed to the UK... by VJ42 · 2005-06-07 02:20 · Score: 1

"I grew up so immersed in British comedy" British comedy is the only comedy. ;) In all seriousness I find much American Comedy dull, formulaic (sp?), and repetitive. All your exported sitcoms sort of blend into one after a while.

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Re:IT'S headed to the UK... by Quiet_Desperation · 2005-06-07 03:31 · Score: 1

Our best comedy is found in the 1 hour comedy/drama format where the comedy is an accent to a normal storyline. There's funnier moments in "The Shield" and "The Sopranos" than in 99% of sitcoms. :) And then there's exceptions like South Park, and some of the Adult Swim stuff is great simply from it's sheer oddness.

ripped off? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 01:25 · Score: 0

Eric Idle wrote Spamalot! Hard to say he's ripping off himself.

And this would have been more timely if it had been posted closer to the awards ceremony on SUNDAY night. Way to keep up with the news, Taco.

Re:ripped off? by tomhudson · 2005-06-07 01:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Right. Today was supposed to be the DUPE of the story.

Let me be the first to say by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 01:29 · Score: 0

No, on seconds thoughts lets not go there. It is a silly place.

Re:Let me be the first to say by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 02:35 · Score: 0

[Comic Book Guy]
Correction! "On second thought, let's not go to Camelot... it is a silly place."
[/Comic Book Guy]

...and the number by blackbear · 2005-06-07 01:34 · Score: 3, Funny

of awards won was three...

Ripped off... by Inari · 2005-06-07 01:40 · Score: 1, Insightful

Saying it was ripped off isn't fair. Yes they are still milking the Monty Python fame but many Python fans we eager to see a new twist on the old stuff. Spamalot wasn't just a cut an paste job. Things were adapted to live stage, dated content was updated and a good bit of new content was added. Some of my favorite sequences were the new material in fact. They were messing about with sacred materials and did a really good job.

Re:Ripped off... by Astin · 2005-06-07 02:31 · Score: 1

So from your comment, one could assume you've seen the show? And one could also assume you're either unable to read or blind, since it's written QUITE CLEARLY on the posters, the playbill, and every piece of PR on the show that it is "lovingly ripped off" from the movie. It's the BLOODY TAGLINE for the show! Not to mention this exact comment has already been addressed at the top of the comments section.

Stupid English.

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Re:Ripped off... by Inari · 2005-06-07 03:00 · Score: 1

Yup - I don't agree with the tagline.
Re:Ripped off... by aweiland · 2005-06-07 06:02 · Score: 1

The tag line is a joke. Eric Idle wrote the thing, so he is essentially ripping off himself (and the other living Pythons). But they aren't getting ripped off because of the money being made.
Re:Ripped off... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 07:21 · Score: 0

Just start back-pedalling now so that you don't look like a complete retard. The first thing you should do when you find yourself in a hole is stop digging.

And about some of the other musicals... by kria · 2005-06-07 01:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I was in New York earlier this year, and among other activities, we saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrals and La Cage aux Folles. Both were VERY good, and I'm pleased to see they won awards (Scoundrals won best male actor in a musical and La Cage got best revival musical and best choreography).

I know a lot of you might be freaked out by a lot of crossdressers, but really, I recommend both of them.

(I don't, however, recommend Phantom, which is the other musical we saw. Rent the new movie... it's much better, IMHO.)

wrong play by bored_lurker · 2005-06-07 01:59 · Score: 1

You'll have to wait for The Meaning of Life-alot for that one. Wrong movie.

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Please Mod Funny ... ! by SpooForBrains · 2005-06-07 02:02 · Score: 1

Someone please mod this funny - I don't know if he meant to be but he sure made me laugh

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hmm by nomadic · 2005-06-07 02:04 · Score: 2, Interesting

What annoyed me were the condescending articles when the news came out about how this play was bringing the 25-35 male demographic in. The tone was always that this demographic was a bunch of culturally defective mouth-breathers, and it was a good thing they were finally getting exposure to high art. Ridiculous of course, Broadway musicals are definitely not high culture; the Broadway community used to recognize this, but now they seem to be getting inflated opinions of themselves.

Re:hmm by uttaddmb · 2005-06-07 02:48 · Score: 2, Insightful

I'd say it's somewhere in the middle. They're realizing now that they can bring in a younger demographic with the right shows -- hell, the last two best musicals were Spamalot an Avenue Q -- but there's still a lot of stuffy traditional, like Light in the Piazza. Eventually there won't be enough "traditional" fans to support those plays, and everything will cater to the culturally defective mouth-breathers. :)
Re:hmm by cdkayak · 2005-06-07 03:24 · Score: 1

The audience at Spamalot looked just like the audience at any other show. I didn't notice any age group represented more than another. There was only one big difference I did notice at this show; about 1/3 of the audience would laugh when they realized what skit was about to start.
Re:hmm by I_M_Noman · 2005-06-07 07:10 · Score: 1

The audience at Spamalot looked just like the audience at any other show
...aside from the group of schoolgirls who showed up dressed like nuns on Opening Night, and the guys who were dressed like knights. Yep, I remember seeing them at Phantom and Les Mis.
Re:hmm by cdkayak · 2005-06-07 07:50 · Score: 1

Must have missed them by a couple of nights. We were too busy with the parade and travelling from one Irish bar to the next on opening night. (Mar. 17th) There was one guy dressed like a knight outside the thearter when we went, but he was hawking something. I think it was Yahoo mail.

Besides... by geekanarchy · 2005-06-07 02:07 · Score: 2, Funny

... it's only a model.

Re:Besides... by uberjoe · 2005-06-07 03:20 · Score: 1

shhhh!

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My girlfriend took me to see it. by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · 2005-06-07 02:11 · Score: 1

Tim Curry wasn't there, so understudy John Bolton took the part, and was pretty damn good. Hank Azaria has the standout performance, but everyone was terrific. I can't wait 'til they make it into a movie. ;)

But mostly, I just wanted to brag that my girlfriend took me to see it.

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Re:My girlfriend took me to see it. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 03:28 · Score: 1, Funny

But mostly, I just wanted to brag that my girlfriend took me to see it.
Yeah, yeah, we know. Your right hand paid for the ticket.

...but I HATE spam! by bornyesterday · 2005-06-07 02:13 · Score: 1

salesman: We've spam-burgers, spam-souflee, spam-dog, spam-cicles, spam omlettes, spam and eggs, spam and grits, spam and toast, spam and cheese sandwhiches, spam on rye...

old woman: I don't want any spam! I hate spam! I just want some eggs and toast.

salesman: i'm sorry, we don't have just eggs and toast.

...

on the otherhand, I love SPAMalot. (but i don't like spam a lot)

Re:I don't get...(SPOILER) by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 02:15 · Score: 0

How is this insightful? He always said "5" instead of "3"

If you're going to post a spoiler, at least get the spoiler right....

Just wait until Lucas discovers theatre... by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2005-06-07 02:16 · Score: 1

Just wait until George Lucas discovers theatre...

Re:Just wait until Lucas discovers theatre... by ByrneArena · 2005-06-07 02:53 · Score: 1

Just think of the plastic dialog we'd be hearing. But the special effects will be great. :-)
Re:Just wait until Lucas discovers theatre... by Barny · 2005-06-07 04:49 · Score: 1

Ahh, i think reign of fire did the best take off of a "future storytelling" with its one man doing a shakespearianised (woot, i made a new word) version of episode 4 (the original).

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Follow-up? by Salvius23 · 2005-06-07 02:20 · Score: 1

With the success of Spamelot, will we be seeing "Brian Cohen, Superstar" a few years from now?

Re:Follow-up? by Verso · 2005-06-07 06:20 · Score: 1

Personally I want to see "JEFF Cohen Superstar!"

But that's just me.

I bet it'd be awesome though...think of the production number the Truffle Shuffle would be!

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Re:I don't get...(SPOILER) by wed128 · 2005-06-07 02:47 · Score: 2, Informative

actually, he mistakenly says 5 instead of 3 several times in the movie, that was only the most notable.

Hitchhikers by transami · 2005-06-07 02:48 · Score: 1

You see musicals work. The Hitchhiker movie should be a musical! Now, go back and fix it!

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I hear the camelot set's nice... by lurch84 · 2005-06-07 02:54 · Score: 0

... even if it is only a model

Can't believe no one went for this one... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 03:03 · Score: 0

And there was much rejoicing. (yay.. yay..)

A Curse in Disguise by BluBall · 2005-06-07 03:23 · Score: 1

Hormel isn't going to like this one bit! Hope they've got a legal team...

Re:A Curse in Disguise by rkww · 2005-06-07 03:57 · Score: 1

Hormel isn't going to like this one bit! Hope they've got a legal team...
Quite the opposite in fact: according to Hormel themselves,

In honor of SPAMALOT, a new musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," Hormel Foods is introducing a limited edition flavor, SPAM(TM) golden honey grail in a "SPAMALOT collector's edition" can.
"SPAM® products have been spoofed by the Monty Python comedy team for decades," said Nick Meyer, senior product manager, Hormel Foods. "The brand is beloved by many, so we are pleased to offer this special collector's edition can and SPAM(TM) golden honey grail to consumers."

...hmm, intersting, there's that 'lovingly ripped off' phrase again...

Makes me wish I was gay by elrous0 · 2005-06-07 03:23 · Score: 1

...and could appreciate this as more than a funny movie. Oh well, I was just born the way I was meant to be, I guess.

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SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.

Uh... by Brutulf · 2005-06-07 03:39 · Score: 0

What's up with the headline? :S

Need to clarify by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-07 04:15 · Score: 0

But mostly, I just wanted to brag that my girlfriend took me to see it.

What are you bragging about? that you saw the play or that you have a girlfriend? Damn slashdotters, never know =)

I loved it! by roberto0 · 2005-06-07 05:10 · Score: 1

It was better than Cats. I want to see it again and again!

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Re:I don't get...(SPOILER) by master0ne · 2005-06-07 06:46 · Score: 1

theres only one thing worse than a bunch of geeks argung about a monty python reference...

a bunch of geeks on slashdot arguing about a monty python reference.

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best I can remember... by circusboy · 2005-06-07 13:17 · Score: 1

3 is the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be 3.
4 shall thou not count, neither shalt thou count 2 excepting that thou then proceedest to 3.
5 is right out!

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"5, no 3" by ummit · 2005-06-07 16:17 · Score: 1

Best...
Headline...
Ever...

Got any ketchup? by Vainglorious+Coward · 2005-06-07 18:04 · Score: 1

...this crow is kinda tasteless. You know, this really is the darnedest thing. In my former reality, there was never any question that it was Billy Connolly (I mis-spelled his name earlier; double oops). All those countless times I saw HG in the *cinema*, never mind TV, video and latterly DVD, it *was* Billy Connolly. But today...

There can be only one explanation : the matrix has me.

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Re:Got any ketchup? by schon · 2005-06-08 01:17 · Score: 1

There can be only one explanation : the matrix has me.

Ahh, but your acceptance that it's John Cleese shows that you're ready to move beyond.

Consider yourself lucky - most people who exit the Matrix don't remember the exact moment of their realization. :o)

PS by Vainglorious+Coward · 2005-06-07 18:08 · Score: 1

I take small comfort in knowing that I am not the sole person on this planet to suffer this delusion

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Spamalot Dress Rehearsal by vjbeau · 2005-06-08 02:23 · Score: 1

The pre-show speeches were as funny as the show. I was lucky to have been there for the first invited Dress rehearsal. Eric Idol came out to introduce show and said "Hello, I'm Eric Idol. If you expected Billy Idol, then F**k Off!" Mike Nichols appeared next saying the reason he chose such a talented production team was that he could do the least amount of work and still get paid. http://woodstockgen.blogspot.com/

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