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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. "
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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.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
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...
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.
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.