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I saw both Tim Curry and Jonathan Hadary. I think when I saw it with the original cast it was almost overwhelming. When I saw it last week with the current cast, I just enjoyed the show for the show's sake...Am I making any sense?

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I saw Spamalot with the OBC in Chicago before the movie (even though I owned it) and I loved it anyways.

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Rick Holmes and Tom Deckman are incredibly entertaining. If you end up not liking the show (though I hope you do!), I guarantee you'll at least leave liking them, haha.

As for the seats, I think they're fantastic. I've sat up close in the orchestra, farther back in the orchestra, and in the mezz, and I can honestly say I liked the closer up (row C, seat...109, maybe?) seat much better. (And on the tour, I've sat in the mezz, and in the upper, upper balcony...and boy, you don't want that far back.) You really won't miss anything, in regard to the set. The stage is high, but it's not that high - you won't be straining your neck to see. Sitting closer really involves you in the show (not literally, of course), and it makes for a much more enjoyable experience, I have found.

As for Robert Petkoff, I haven't personally seen him, but several of my friends did on tour and they had nothing but good to say about him.

Also, Marianne2, it was Chris Sieber's third time in the role, not second. He just keeps coming back, haha.

Oh, and Jonathan Hadary! I've seen him twice, and he's one of my favorite Arthurs. He's been in the role for over a year now, and he hasn't started phoning it in or getting bored with the role. He also has very good diction, which I know is a random thing to comment on, but I saw Michael Siberry twice as well (on tour) and the second time, a year later, he was slurring his lines so much that even I (who could recite the show in my sleep) wasn't quite sure what he was saying.

PS: I miss Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Ten thousand times more funny than Spamalot and the best musical comedy of the last few years. It deserved a much longer run.

Spamalot was my first Broadway musical for 18 years and kick-started my twice-or-thrice yearly return visits to NYC to see shows. I'm glad I got to see it with the OBC, but I have also enjoyed the replacements I've seen (particularly Hannah Waddingham who I saw in London).

I was never a huge Python fan and when I watched Holy Grail after Spamalot, I still didn't enjoy it that much. But I loved Spamalot and I'm extremely grateful it lured me back to Broadway!

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Chris Sieber is in the audience tonight, as well as Mike Nichols.

Stage door from this afternoon:

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From Playbill:

"Robert Petkoff, who played Perchik in the most recent Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, will join the Broadway cast of Monty Python's Spamalot May 6 at the Shubert Theatre.

Petkoff will step into the roles of Sir Robin, Guard 1 and Brother Maynard, according to a show spokesperson. He succeeds former "American Idol" contestant Clay Aiken, who played his final performance May 4.

Petkoff joins a cast that currently includes Tom Deckman, David Hibbard, Jonathan Hadary, Rick Holmes, Bradley Dean, Steve Rosen, Hannah Waddingham, Kevin Covert and Matthew Crowle.

Robert Petkoff has been seen on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof and Epic Proportions and Off-Broadway in More Stately Mansions. He appeared in The Royal Family in the West End, on tour with Spamalot and in productions of Tantalus, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sunday in the Park With George, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. Petkoff's screen credits include "Milk & Money," "Loverboy," "Game Day," "Chappelle's Show," "Law & Order," "Hack," "Quantum Leap," "Married With Children" and "Mona.""


Fiddler's Petkoff to Join Broadway's Spamalot May 6

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