Day: February 23, 2005

Spamalot Photos

For Photos of last nights encounter between our Killer Bunny and the Cast

Also a few current cute pictures of Caroline.

Just came back from seeing “Spamalot” in previews. What a wonderfully loopy time THAT was.

Although obviously beholden to “Holy Grail,” only a few sequences are basically word for word. The rest wanders astray into side sequences and songs–some relevant, some spectacularly not–that both send up Broadway cliches while simultaneously adhering to them.

Tim Curry looks like he’s having entirely too much fun, Hank Azaria is hilarious as Lancelot (never realized how much he looks like John Cleese; it’s the chin, I guess), and David Hyde-Pierce not only out-does Idle’s Sir Robin, but he’s easily got the best song in the show: A second act show stopper about how, if you’re going to succeed on Broadway, you need Jews in your show (it’s a nice companion piece to “The Producer’s” song about gays…not that gays go untrounced in “Spamalot.”)

Bottom line, it’s a shamelessly mercenary endeavor exploiting the Python legacy, and no one, including myself, had the slightest problem with that.

We hung out afterwards and the three leads came out and signed autographs. I got them to sign the interior of my giant killer rabbit’s mouth. Curry hesitated slightly and, divining his suspicions, I said, “I swear to you, I won’t close the mouth on your hand.” He trusted me and I restrained myself (which is nice since usually people have to be called in to apply restraints on me.)

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