Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

#1

Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/5/07 at 11:44pm

Okay, I have one day to choose either of these shows. I'm taking my boyfriend who loved Avenue Q. He says he thinks the Monty Python Holy Grail movie is funny, but didnt watch Monty Python's Flying CIrcus shows..Spelling Bee is just generally funny, and for immaturity I believe he'd like the concepts.
Now, for the Bee I'd get the 50$ tix..are they worth it?
And for Spamalot I'd get the balcony 39$ tix..rear balcony..is that worth it?
Which to choose?! Please help a college student out!! :)

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#2

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/5/07 at 11:53pm

Spelling Bee. Both are insanely hilarious, and you'll have a great time at both, but for the price and general enjoyment, I'd go for Spelling Bee - intimate theatre (any seat is a good seat - as opposed to rear mezz in a big house), great cast, etc. ::shrug::

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#3

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/5/07 at 11:55pm

Spamelot!


Or Spamalot!

Updated On: 8/5/07 at 11:55 PM

#4

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/5/07 at 11:56pm

I've seen Spamalot, not the Bee yet...I believe I'll enjoy either.
Are the rear balcony seats in the Shubert that bad?

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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.

#5

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/5/07 at 11:59pm

No, I've sat there any they're not that bad.

See Spamalot! It's a really really fun night at the theatre.

#6

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/5/07 at 11:59pm

See Spelling Bee! It's so unique. I didn't love Spamalot. I thought it was mildly funny ... but I enjoyed Spelling Bee a lot more. I kind of felt like Spamalot was just the movie on stage ... same jokes that everyone has already heard.

#7

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 12:00am

That is a funny question! I saw Spamalot at the Shubert in Chicatgo and the upper seats are fine. I have only been to the Shubert in NY once, and it seemed like a small house, so I assume the rear balcony seats are fine.

#8

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 3:16am

See Spelling Bee. It's fresh, and the jokes aren't as recycled (not that Spamalot is bad - it's just more familiar). Spelling Bee is absolutely hilarious.

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#9

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 6:38am

Since Spamalot is based mainly from the Holy Grail movie I think he'd like that.

I haven't seen the new cast of Spelling Bee, but I've heard mixed things about it. I guess if you haven't seen it at all, it's funny. But for me it just doesn't hold up on repeat viewings. I was pretty bored the last time I saw it.

I'd go with Spamalot.

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Updated On: 8/6/07 at 06:38 AM

#10

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 7:05am

I'd see Spelling Bee, hands down.
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#11

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 7:48am

Spelling Bee. I love the Holy Grail movie and Spamalot was just dissapointing. It was the movie + the lady of the lake - my favorite parts. They kind of ripped off FB as well. See the bee. Also there isn't a bad seat in the house at Circle in the Square, where as the Shubert is full of partial view seats.

Updated On: 8/6/07 at 07:48 AM

#12

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 7:53am

See the Bee.
no comparison, in my mind.

#13

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 8:00am

Spelling Bee

#14

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 8:20am

I've seen Spelling Bee 3 times in a year. Spamalot only once. SPELLING BEE!!!!

#15

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 8:24am

I would strongly recommend Spelling Bee. Frankly, I was disappointed with Spamalot, and found it the weakest of the nominated musicals that year (others were Spelling Bee, Light in the Piazza, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; I enjoyed them all MUCH more than Spamalot).

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#16

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 10:49am

Spamalot definitely.

I saw and enjoyed both shows, but Spamalot is overall the more fun and flashy show (if that is what you want). Plus if he enjoyed the movie...I don't think the fact that he didn't watch Flying Circus should affect his enjoyment of the show...as long as he saw the movie.

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Updated On: 8/6/07 at 10:49 AM

#17

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 10:53am

I liked Spelling Bee marginally better than I liked Spamalot, rather in the same way that Clive Barnes liked Follies marginally better than he liked Company. Stick to spelling Bee, however, I wouldn't go to either ever again.

#18

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 12:48pm

No question, Spelling Bee.

#19

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 2:54pm

Spamalot

#20

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 3:00pm

Spelling Bee, no contest. It's miles better than Spamalot. (And I LOVE Monty Python.)

#21

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 7:04pm

I watched both and its a toss up, both were good not great but good

#22

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 8:47pm

Just saw the new Spelling Bee cast. They were very good, but they play their characters more kid-like and toned down. They are far different from the OBC. You can get decently priced good seats for Spelling Bee (using a discount code), and I would rather be close than far away. For that reason, I would choose Spelling Bee. That and the fact that I think one of my acting teachers from years ago is an understudy.

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#23

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 9:53pm

I've seen them both and preferred Spamalot. I didn't think I was going to like Spamalot, but I took my dad for his birthday and we both ended up loving it. I thought Spamalot was a lot funnier than Spelling Bee, although I enjoyed Bee. Just thinking of sitting through "The I Love You Song" again is enough to chase me away from seeing Bee again. I highly recommend Spamalot. We sat in the balcony and had no problems. They were good seats for a great price.

Updated On: 8/6/07 at 09:53 PM

#24

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:41pm

I highly recommend Spelling Bee. Good seats no matter what, a great cast in my opinion, and a far superior score...at least to my ears.

#25

re: Spamalot v. Spelling Bee

Posted: 8/7/07 at 2:02am

Wait a minute!!! Boyfriend?! Where have you been?

//end threadjack.

P.S. Spelling Bee

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