Spamalot vs Wicked

[Mr Roxy]

Spamalot vs Wicked#0

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:13pm

Which did you enjoy more?

We saw both but liked Spamalot more. Wicked was OK but we were not blown away with it. My wife read the book & was somewhat disappointed . We enjoyed it but....

Spamalot was a lot of fun

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[Yankeefan007]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#1

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:32pm

They both sucked massively.

[BSoBW3]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#2

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:33pm

Wicked.

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[bwayondabrain]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#3

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:41pm

Wicked

[Mr Roxy]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#4

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:43pm

Anyone other than me pick Spamalot ?

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[imnotthatmart]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#5

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:46pm

Wicked.

The thing with Spamalot is your must like Monty Python to like it . . considering its the same EXACT thing, minus all the women.

[BSoBW3]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#6

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:50pm

imnotthatmart - funny you say that.

I did not like Spamalot because I DID like Monty Python's Holy Grail. I was just ecpecting something different.

It isn't that Spamalot is a bad show, per se, it's just not what it could have been.

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[bundy5000]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#7

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:54pm

I say spamalot, because I am a hard core rocky horror buff and seeing Tim Curry gave me one serious once in a life time orgasm

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[imnotthatmart]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#8

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:56pm

i think tim curry sucked big time. The only reason i feel he got a tony nom is because hes such a big star. his replacment is much better.

[frogs_fan85]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#9

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:56pm

Spamalot.

[Mr Roxy]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#10

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:57pm

Thank you Frog

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[nolatheatre]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#11

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:58pm

Spamalot.

[TheaterAddict7652]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#12

Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:58pm

Wicked

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[thez914]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#13

Posted: 3/2/06 at 9:02pm

I didn't really like either...but I'd see Wicked again over Spamalot. But then, I saw them both in Chicago.

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[keatonbynumbers]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#14

Posted: 3/2/06 at 9:36pm

I don't really like either of them, but Wicked is better, I guess. I love Monty Python, just... not Spamalot.

[maybethistime]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#15

Posted: 3/2/06 at 9:51pm

SPAMALOT. I loathe Monty Python's Holy Grail, but I found the show entertaining and funny because of its hilarious, but still Monty-Pythonesque, tongue-in-cheek take on generic musicals. (SONG THAT GOES LIKE THIS - REPRISE gets me everytime.)

I honestly feel WICKED has very little artistic merit and doesn't do it's source material justice.

[James2]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#16

Posted: 3/2/06 at 9:58pm

Actually, imnotthatmart, my Mom saw it with me, and she's not a Monty Python fan but she laughed through the whole thing.

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[Magdalene]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#17

Posted: 3/2/06 at 9:58pm

SPAMALOT!!!!

5 times and counting!!

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[mijofly19]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#18

Posted: 3/2/06 at 10:21pm

Spamalot

[millie_dillmount]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#19

Posted: 3/2/06 at 11:21pm

Seeing both in April (tours)...will make a decision then.

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[jeremykushnier1fan]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#20

Posted: 3/2/06 at 11:35pm

I'm so glad there are some Spamalot people out there. I definatly loved both of them to death and I'm seeing both of them again as their tours come around to Toronto. If i had to pick...

Spamalot!

[munkustrap178]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#21

Posted: 3/3/06 at 12:27am

Both suck. SPAMALOT sucks more.

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[Loge]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#22

Posted: 3/3/06 at 12:33am

I think Wicked is more enjoyable (to me) story wise, but Spamalot is much better written. I've never understood the craziness surrounding Wicked - the score is average at best, and the lyrics are laughable in many places - I mean creating a pharse "believe'll" just so you have something to rhyme with evil is something a third grader might do. Even I, who is in no way a lyricst, would not do something that is just plain stupid. Aside from a few nice songs, there isn't much there. Spamalot is very creative and very well-written. You can't argue that Spamalot is by far a better musical than Wicked!

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[beckie_nyc]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#23

Posted: 3/3/06 at 12:34am

Spamalot it is.

That's the trouble with this song. It goes on and on and on.

[thez914]

re: Spamalot vs Wicked#24

Posted: 3/3/06 at 12:49am

"You can't argue that Spamalot is by far a better musical than Wicked!"

At least Wicked didn't fall apart and go to sh*t in the second act.

EDIT: Loge, did you mean "You can't DENY that Spamalot is by far a better musical than Wicked!"? just wondering, because that kind of makes me laugh...and not that Wicked is any kind of literary achievement, but I'd also like to know why you find Spamalot to be much better written than Wicked. That also kind of makes me laugh.

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Updated On: 3/3/06 at 12:49 AM