Last night,
to celebrate my birthday, a friend and I went out to see Monty Python’s Spamalot at a local dinner theater. This our second time going to this theater in
the past few months (we now have season tickets, so we’ll be going more often),
and we were not disappointed. Last time,
we saw Les Miserables, so it was fun
to see something a bit more cheerful this time around.
Spamalot is a musical based on Monty
Python’s movie of the same name.
basically, it’s a parody of the legend of King Arthur, complete with
singing, outrageous characters and numerous sexual references. When on Broadway, Spamalot won a Tony Award in 2005 for Best Musical, and it had a
very successful run. I saw the show
about a year ago while in college, but I wasn’t about to pass up on seeing it
again. As much as I didn’t like the
movie, I have to admit that the musical is one of my favorites.
It’s
funny, just yesterday I was thinking how whenever I’ve gone to Toby’s (the name
of the dinner theater), I’ve never had a lead actor as a waiter. Ironically, when we went to Toby’s last
night, our waiter was none other than King Arthur himself. Not only did our fabulous waiter play King
Arthur, but when we saw Les Miserables
in November, he played Javert. We, of
course told our waiter this. I told him
that I never really liked Javert until I saw his portrayal, it was that
amazing. Marius from Les Mis was also in
the show again, and Fantine. It was
weird, seeing an actor we just saw blow it out of the water in what can
probably be called the most serious Broadway musical in the past twenty years
switch gears completely and play one of the goofiest roles ever. It was highly entertaining and just showed the
diversity actors need to possess in order to be successful in their field.
Overall,
I thought the show was amazing. It was
hilarious, which is expected, the acting was superb, the costumes were amazing,
the choreography wonderful. Toby’s never
disappoints when it comes to a show; they never disappoint when it comes to its
performances.
Below
you can find a clip of one of the songs from Spamalot. While it’s not
from Toby’s, it’s still a great performance nonetheless.
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