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Monty Python's SPAMalot Wins 5, no 3 Tony Awards
acreman writes "Monty Python's SPAMalot, a musical lovingly ripped off from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, won 3 of the 14 Tony Awards it was nominated for. The 3 awards given out were for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (Sara Ramirez), Best Direction of a Musical (Mike Nichols), and Best Musical. "
Why is this "IT" instead of regular news?
'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!
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
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'.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
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.
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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.
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. :)