Spamalot

[Lemons2]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 7:47pm

Went to see Spamalot yesterday and it was incredible. We got tix the day they went on sale and were lucky enough to score second row center Mezz. seats. Took our kids and grandchildren (11 & 15) and everyone enjoyed it thoroughly. My wife and I are listning to the album now and can't come up with all of the songs that they are imitating. Can anyone tell us which songs they are spoofing?

[littleredridinghood]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 7:56pm

Stuff from "Fiddler on the Roof" in "You Won't Succeed on Broadway."

Peter Allen stuff in "His Name is Lancelot."

Andrew Lloyd Webber in "The Song that Goes Like This."

"Another Hundred People," Man of La Mancha, and Les Miz are made fun of during the show, but these aren't on the CD.

[GirlforTartaglia]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 7:57pm

"The Song That Goes Like This" was performed a la Phantom of the Opera in the boat..
Some of the songs like "Diva's Lament" dont actually spoof a specific song, yet the types of songs that song seems like..Like all shows have a 'diva'..

[Qfan2.0]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 8:05pm

The man of la mancha reference is in "All for One". (It's the sir not appearing in this show part.)

"Diva's Lament" makes fun of gypsy at the end also, right?

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 8:31pm

You won't succeed on broadway also contains the line the luckiest people in the world-Funny Girl.

Find Your Grail seems to have similar beats to lotsa broadway songs, reminded me of Day By Day and my aunt of a couple slow Jesus Christ Superstar songs.

Everything that happens in Camelot stays in Camelot-La Cage

Obviously numerous references to Camelot.

Sara Ramirez seems to be doing a Judy Garland impersonation.

So much more, so much to catch. I love broadway spoofs!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 8:51pm

Saw it today & Sara was out. I guess playing 8 performances a week is not in the contract most stars sign on for. Her understudy was fine

It appears that what I thought was the case is true. The score is paper thin. One number was written for Life of Brian . Many songs were of short duration. Seeing Piazza next weekend but think DRS score is superior. The show itself is quite good & entertaining

$ 20 for a program was insane but if people are stupid enough to buy it, that is there problem

Updated On: 5/30/05 at 08:51 PM

[Ladyofthe Lake]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 9:42pm

"$ 20 for a program was insane but if people are stupid enough tp buy it, that is there problem"

Aww, c'mon. It isn't a matter of intelligence. Different people are willing to splurge on different things. Is it overpriced? Yup. Is it a fun souvenir of the show? Yup.

Am I one of the "stupid people" who spent $20 on the program? Yup. Do I consider it a "problem"? Nope.

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 9:54pm

Sir-Not-Appearing-in-this-Show is Sir-Not-Appearing-in-this-Picture in the original movie, so it's a reference to that as well as Man of La Mancha.

The Lady in the Lake's music has a certain American Idol element to it as well.

[joeybiltmore1]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 10:03pm

It is Sir Not Appearing's costume that is the Man of La Mancha reference. He is dressed exactly like Don Quixite from his golden shaving basin on his head to his twisted sword.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 10:29pm

If you want to pay $ 20 for a program that is your affair. It is not for me.

[Ladyofthe Lake]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 10:40pm

"If you want to pay $ 20 for a program that is your affair. It is not for me."

I wasn't trying to convince you to buy a program...just observing it is not necessarily a symptom of stupidity for someone else to do it.

LotL, apparently in a cranky mood this evening

[Thenardier]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 10:55pm

Mr Roxy - I agree about Spamalot and DRS...and Dracula...seems we have the same taste....

Post a Piazza review - I bet we'll feel the same way

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:37am

I enjoy the music to the show but I dont know if i would want to sit thru the whole thing. My sister and her husband are seeing it in June and I asked them to get me a program and a playbill. I figure it is cheaper then shelling out 100 bucks.


Of course, now I wish I got tickets to see DRS

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:56am

Another reason more people & families in particular shy away from theater is the crass & greedy merchandising aspect of it. The stuff they are selling is overkill. The price of tickets, tee shirts , a program & other parafanelia for a family of 4 could easily be $ 500. Absolutely & positively insane. Somehow they were not selling a King Arthur whistle. If he though it would sell, Idle would sell a genuine Monty Python Spamalot turd. The sad thing is there would be someone to buy it

[cserannie]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:00am

I haven't seen the show so please help me. In the song: knights around the table who is the person that Sarah impersonates? Because at the beginning it seems to me that is Judy Garland but the end of the song is pure Streisand.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:11am

The way it sounds is the way it comes out. On stage, she looks like Cher so go figure

[cserannie]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:13am

Cher? That's interesting because she doesn't sound like Cher to me.

[Mythus]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:15am

This isn't a song spoof, but when my friend saw it, she noticed a quick little parody of the Frogs. I think it had something to do with a guy in a spandex frog suit (very similar to the radioactive ones used in The Frogs) doing a backflip. Maybe during a scene that had something to do with the Lady of the Lake.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 11:06am

She looks like Cher but who she is supposed to sound like Good Luck

[Mattio98]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 11:10am

I thought that "His Name is Lancelot" is a takeoff of "Copacabana".

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 11:16am

I think it was to be a takeoff on I Go To Rio from BFO

I am surprised Idle takes full writing credit since whole sections of the dialogue are verbatim from the movie which was written by all the Pythons. To be sure, this is Idle's vision but he had tremendous help with source material he basically "lovingly ripped off" from MP&THG.

Updated On: 5/30/05 at 11:16 AM

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 11:24am

Saw it today & Sara was out. I guess playing 8 performances a week is not in the contract most stars sign on for.

Performers get sick too, just like us regular folk.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 11:26am

Is it just me or does Sara Ramirez sound a liiiittle bit like Patti LuPone in "Diva's Lament?" Also, I think there's a green-tinted light on her, in that song, which may be a reference to Wicked.

I'm pretty sure the "Song That Goes Like This" reprise is supposed to be Streisand.

Sir Robin says "Papa, can you hear me?" in "You Won't Succeed on Broadway." (Yentl)

Theree's some dancing in "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" that's reminiscent of Singin' in the Rain.

I think the "what happens in Camelot stays in Camelot" was supposed to be a reference to Las Vegas, but it could very well be La Cage too.

After "I'm Alone," Sara Ramirez does sort of a Billie Burke-in-The-Wizard-of-Oz thing ("Haven't you noticed? I've been with you the whole time!" and her "Goodbye! Goodbye! Goodbye!"'s).


This is in addition to the ones that have been mentioned...