SPAMALOT
SPAMALOT
Cabchic
Leading Actor Joined: 8/1/03
#1re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:14amI loved it too. Was everyone in the cast when you saw it? Did you go to the stage door afterwards?
#2re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:16am
actually king arthurs understudy was on
Updated On: 6/28/05 at 11:16 AM
LuvBroadwayHugs
Broadway Star Joined: 6/20/05
#4re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:45pmOh man! You didn't get to see Tim Curry? He's quite excellent in the role, but I'm sure his understudy did fine!
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#5re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:59pmHAHA! i predicted this! i said, when the show was starting up that as soon as the show won lots of awards he would start missing lots of preformances
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#6re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:01pmWell, as much as I LOVE Spamalot, I think something else deserves to win. DRS would be my first choice.
What the puck?!
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#7re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:02pmI thought Tim Curry walked through the role. I was very disappointed by Spamalot, and I do not think it deserved the Tony. I believe most voters didn't either, but they voted for it because they wanted the corporate producers to be appeased.
#8re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:04pmSpamalot deserved the Tony. I am glad it won!
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#9re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:06pm
IT wasn't answered at the other thread... but here it goes again. Anybody know when Sara Ramirez is leaving Spamalot... I think it's around December?
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Ladyofthe Lake
Leading Actor Joined: 1/1/05
#10re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:36pm
"I thought Tim Curry walked through the role."
I couldn't disagree more. Tim has said in more than one interview he was giving a more "broad" performance in rehearsal, and Mike Nichols pulled him back. Nobody can convince me Mike would have allowed his leading man to "walk through the role." You may not care for the artistic choices he and Tim made, but there is no doubt in my mind what one sees on the stage is just that - an artistic choice, not laziness or an unwillingness to give the role his all. Really, to say an actor "walked through a role" is an incredible insult to his/her professionalism.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#11re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:38pmNo it's not. That's the way it came across to me. I didn't say I was right.
Ladyofthe Lake
Leading Actor Joined: 1/1/05
#12re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:41pm
I meant in general that the accusation that a performer "walked through a role" is an incredible insult...it wasn't a reference to your statement specifically. I saw the qualifier you put in front of it.
That being said, I still disagree. 
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#14re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:43pmIt's not always an insult. Sometimes it's very much the truth, sadly enough. I have a friend in the cast of Wicked who often told me stories about people playing games onstage to keep from being bored of the show day in and day out. They'd say their lines but would be more involved in trying to make other people laugh.
#15re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:47pmI didnt really like the show..I'm not a big Python fan, but I think the actors/actresses were AMAZING and deserve every bit of credit they got.
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
Cabchic
Leading Actor Joined: 8/1/03
#16re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 3:01pmI think they all signed on until Dec 21st. Then it will all depend on if they extend their contracts.
Ladyofthe Lake
Leading Actor Joined: 1/1/05
#17re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 3:54pm
"It's not always an insult. Sometimes it's very much the truth, sadly enough."
I see your point...however, the mere fact that something can be considered an "insult" doesn't reflect on its veracity. I would just imagine a performer would be especially "stung" by that particular accusation if it isn't true (if someone genuinely doesn't care enough about the performance to do more than just walk through it, I rather wonder if he or she would care about being "called out" on it...).
#18re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 4:11pmEntertainment Weekly said Ramirez was leaving in December.
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ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#19re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 4:41pmOh, I'm sure they'd be upset by it, and if they were to explain to me what they were doing and I understood it, I would of course apologize and retract the remark. But that's just the way I saw his performance.
#20re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/28/05 at 6:29pmI loved Spamalot. I usually despise overly-hyped shows but I was pleasantly surprised by Spamalot. Definately deserved the Tony.
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#21re: SPAMALOT
Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:13am
musicgal04 the understudy was great actually great voice. I saw tim curry at the tonys though soo at least i saw him.
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