WTF?...Spamalot grabs Grammy... — Page 4

I'm glad Spamalot won, do you hear me? GLAD GLAD GLAD GLAD GLAD! It's my taste, and if you don't like it, too bad.

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I'm also glad it won - not for the humour or anything that people have attacked but for the actual singers on it. Sara Ramirez and Tim Curry in particular deserve the fact it won - simply because they gave such great vocal performances on the cd.

I didnt realise untill now just how 'hated' Spamalot appears to be...it's quite sad.

And can i just say; Lady Of The Lake - i love you man...I wish i had your way with words when replying to silly people on message boards. ;o)

Updated On: 2/10/06 at 02:58 PM

I think somebody's just upset that Brooklyn didn't win

Proposition 1: Everyone who is on this website has an interest in Broadway.
Proposition 2: Most everyone on this website would like more people to know and understand Broadway so that we can share our passion for Broadway with other people.
Proposition 3: A Spamalot win for best musical Tony helps proposition 2 to some degree, but not much, because people who watch the Tonys already know about Broadway.
Proposition 4: A Spamalot win for best musical recording Grammy has the possibility to make more people interested in Broadway. The average no nothing about Broadway person may follow the Grammy's and more likely may have heard of Monty Python. Seeing that Spamalot won may make him or her more interested in seeing a Broadway show. And it's a short creative journey from Spamalot to Avenue Q to DRS to Bee. Admittedly a longer journey to Piazza, but you have to start somewhere.
I say the more new fans brought to Broadway the better. And what difference does it really make to us which record won the Grammy. We know what we like and we don't really need our likes validated by the Grammy voters. What we really want is for more of the public to validate our love of Broadway.

I agree Ourtime992 that Guettel deserves a Grammy. He is probably very disappointed and rightfully so. However, I hope he doesn't need a Grammy to continue writing beautiful music. I hope that the artists that create new original theater don't need to be recognized by winning awards. I hope that they will continue to explore new ideas and create more great music for us to listen to. I hope they won't just sell out to produce comedy that will win them awards. I hope he wins his Grammy someday. But I believe that more public recognition for Broadway will help all of the artists because it will bring more people to the theater and show the public that Broadway is great.

The quality of the Spamalot score is very poor. It has 4 terriffic numbers (Bright Side of Life, The Song that Goes Like This, Knights of the Round Table, Won't Succeed on Broadway) but the rest of the songs are all forgettable.
DRS and Piazza have scores you can remember, songs you'll want to listent to again. Of the 16 songs from DRS, I like them all. They aren't all my favorites, but they are all terriffic songs. Same with Piazza, there isn't one I don't like. With Spamalot, out of 15 some of songs, I can only pick out 4 standouts.

Don't blame me. I voted for Piazza.

Just putting my two cents in. I really liked Spamalot and the others nominated, so I won't say much about them winning. BUT I do want to say is this: Who really gives a hoot about the Grammy's? They are just like any television awards. They are usually stupid and pointless because they don't care about every genre. I like to watch some scifi shows and they never are nominated and if you see the grammy's they got one (didn't check) little slot for musicals. So, if Spamalot gets more 'Grammy' viewers into BWY, thank goodness. Please let us get rid of some of today's music.

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