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The Gold Coast Premiere season of ''Spamalot'' opens at the Spotlight Theatre, [[Benowa]] on July 24 2009 for a four week run. The Sydney Premiere of ''Spamalot'' is being held on 9 October 2009 by The Regals Musical Society.<ref>The Regals Musical Society, [http://www.theregals.com.au/shows/spamalot/2009oct Sydney Spamalot Premiere], May 11, 2009.</ref> |
The Gold Coast Premiere season of ''Spamalot'' opens at the Spotlight Theatre, [[Benowa]] on July 24 2009 for a four week run. The Sydney Premiere of ''Spamalot'' is being held on 9 October 2009 by The Regals Musical Society.<ref>The Regals Musical Society, [http://www.theregals.com.au/shows/spamalot/2009oct Sydney Spamalot Premiere], May 11, 2009.</ref> |
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Primera versión del musical traducida a otro idioma, se estrenó en el [[Teatre Victoria]] de [[Barcelona]] el [[9 de septiembre]] de [[2008]], dirigida por el Grupo Tricicle. Se editó una grabación en audio en diciembre de 2008. |
Primera versión del musical traducida a otro idioma, se estrenó en el [[Teatre Victoria]] de [[Barcelona]] el [[9 de septiembre]] de [[2008]], dirigida por el Grupo Tricicle. Se editó una grabación en audio en diciembre de 2008. |
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| Spamalot | ||
|---|---|---|
 Original Broadway Windowcard | ||
| Autor | Eric Idle | |
| Basado en |
1975 Monty Python film Monty Python and the Holy Grail | |
| Publicación | ||
| Idioma | Inglés | |
| Música | ||
| Compositor |
John Du Prez Eric Idle | |
| Letra | Eric Idle | |
| Puesta en escena | ||
| Lugar de estreno | PrivateBank Theatre | |
| Fecha de estreno | 21 de diciembre de 2004 | |
| Libretista | Eric Idle | |
| Producción | ||
| Producciones |
2004 Chicago 2009 North American tour | |
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Monty Python's Spamalot es una comedia musical basada ligeramente en la película Los caballeros de la mesa cuadrada y sus locos seguidores de los Monty Phyton. Como en la película, es una irreverente parodia de la leyenda del Rey Arturo, pero con bastantes diferencias con respecto a la película, especialmente por sus parodias a las obras musicales de Broadway.Eric Idlle, miembro de los Monty Phyton, escribió el libreto de la obra y colaboró con John du Prez en la música. La producción original de 2005 estrenada en Broadway, dirigida por Mike Nichols, ganó 3 premios Tony, incluyendo el premio Tony al mejor musical en la temporada 2004-2005, y recibió candidaturas para 14 premios Tony.
Idle explicó el título de la obra en conferencia de prensa en febrero de 2004:
I like the title Spamalot a lot. We tested it with audiences on my recent US tour and they liked it as much as I did, which is gratifying. After all, they are the ones who will be paying Broadway prices to see the show. It comes from a line in the movie which goes: "we eat ham, and jam and Spam a lot."
Me gusta mucho el título Spamalot. Lo hemos probado con audiencias en la gira por Estados Unidos y les gustó tanto como a mí, lo cual es gratificante. Después de todo, ellos son los que pagarán los precios de Broadway para ver el espectáculo. Viene de una linea de diálogo de la película que dice: "comemos jamón, y mermelada y mucho Spam".
Resumen
En la trama, el Rey Arturo (Jordi Bosch), tras reunir a su divertida corte, emprende la misión divina de buscar el Santo Grial. Intrépidos caballeros, bosques encantados, escenas acuáticas, castillos repletos de franceses y bailarinas de Las Vegas invadirán el Teatro Lope de Vega durante la temporada.
Números musicales
*Does not appear on the Original cast album.
**On the cast album but not in the show itself.
Personajes
Corte de Camelot
Other characters
Al igual que en la película, donde seis actores interpretan la mayor parte de los papeles masculinos (y alguno femenino), algunos actores de la obra interpretan varios papeles. Los únicos actores que no cambian de papel son los que interpretan al Rey Arthur y la Dama del Lago. En la producción de Broadway los siguientes papeles son interpretados por el mismo actor:
- Lancelot/The French Taunter/Caballero de Ni/Tim el encantador
- Robin/1st Sentry/Primer Guardia/Hermano Maynard
- Galahad/King of Swamp Castle/Caballero Negro
- Patsy/Alcalde de Finland/Segundo Guardia
- Bedevere/Mrs. Galahad/Concorde
- El historiador/Principe Herbert/Fred No-muerto/Lead Minstrel/El mejor amigo del francés.
Sara Ramirez was intended to double as a witch but this part was cut from the final script. Several pairs of characters originally played by the same Monty Python member were reduced to one: the Dead Collector and Sir Robin (Idle), the Large Man with a Dead Body and Sir Lancelot (Cleese), and Dennis the Politically-Active Peasant and Sir Galahad (Michael Palin).
Historia de la producción
Chicago
Se realizó el preestreno de la obra en el Teatro Shubert (actualmente Teatro Bank of America) de Chicago el 21 de diciembre de 2004. El estreno oficial fue el 9 de enero de 2005.
Two musical numbers were dropped from Act One while the production was still in Chicago. During the scene set in the "Witch Village", the torch song "Burn Her!" was originally performed by Sir Bedevere, The Witch, Sir Robin, Lance and Villagers. At the French Castle, "The Cow Song", in a parody of a stereotypical film noir/cabaret style, was performed by The Cow and French Citizens. Before the two songs were cut in Chicago, the lead vocals in both songs were sung by Sara Ramirez. This gave her six songs in Act One, but no further appearances until scene five in Act Two, for "The Diva's Lament".
Broadway
The musical previewed on Broadway, at New York's Shubert Theatre, beginning February 14, 2005, and, after some changes, officially opened on March 17, 2005. Mike Nichols directed, and Casey Nicholaw choreographed. The Broadway previews were practically sold out, leaving only obstructed view tickets for sale. The production won the Tony Award for Best Musical and was nominated for 14 Tony Awards. The show played its final performance on January 11, 2009 after 35 previews and 1,574 performances.[1]
The original Broadway cast included Tim Curry as King Arthur, Michael McGrath as Patsy, David Hyde Pierce as Sir Robin, Hank Azaria as Sir Lancelot and other roles (e.g., the French Taunter, Knight of Ni, and Tim the Enchanter), Christopher Sieber as Sir Galahad and other roles (e.g., the Black Knight and Prince Herbert's Father), and Sara Ramirez as the Lady of the Lake. It also included Christian Borle as Prince Herbert and other roles (e.g., the Historian and Not Dead Fred), Steve Rosen as Sir Bedevere and other roles (e.g., Concorde and Dennis's Mother) and John Cleese as the (recorded) Voice of God.
Notable cast replacements have included the following:
- Azaria was replaced by Alan Tudyk and later by Rick Holmes.
- Ramirez was replaced by Lauren Kennedy, then by Marin Mazzie, Hannah Waddingham, and Merle Dandridge.
- Curry was replaced by Simon Russell Beale, Harry Groener, Jonathan Hadary, Stephen Collins, Michael Siberry, and John O'Hurley.
- Sieber was replaced by Lewis Cleale, then by Bradley Dean.
- Borle was replaced by Tom Deckman.
- Pierce was replaced by Martin Moran, Clay Aiken, and Robert Petkoff.
- McGrath was replaced by David Hibbard, then by Drew Lachey.
- Rosen was replaced by Jeffrey Kuhn, Brad Oscar, Steve Rosen and Wally Dunn.
North American tour
A North American tour commenced in spring 2006, and the cast included Michael Siberry as King Arthur, Jeff Dumas as Patsy/Mayor/Guard, David Turner as Robin/Guard/Brother Maynard, Rick Holmes as Lancelot/French Taunter/Knight of Ni/Tim The Enchanter, Bradley Dean as Galahad/Black Knight/Herbert's Father, Tom Deckman as The Historian/Not Dead Fred/French Guard/Minstrel/Prince Herbert, Christopher Gurr as Sir Bedevere/Dennis's Mother/Concorde, and Pia Glenn (who remains slated for productions as late as June 2008)[2] as the Lady of the Lake. Deckman moved to the Broadway production in November 2006 and was replaced by Christopher Sutton.
The tour won three 2007 Touring Broadway Awards, including Best New Musical.
Another tour began in Chicago on January 20, 2009 at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, with Richard Chamberlain as King Arthur.[3][4]
A separate tour runs in summer 2009, with dates at the Golden Gate Theatre San Francisco, the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, the San Diego Civic Theatre in San Diego, the Tucson Music Hall in Tucson, and ending at the Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa[5].
London West End
A London production opened at the Palace Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End, commencing 30 September 2006 (London première 17 October) with tickets on sale booking to November 2008. Curry reprised his Broadway role as King Arthur until December, with Beale taking over since January. Sieber also reprised his role as Sir Galahad before leaving in early 2007, replaced by Graham McDuff. Hannah Waddingham was cast as the Lady of the Lake, Tom Goodman-Hill as Sir Lancelot, Robert Hands as Sir Robin, David Birell as Patsy, Tony Timberlake as Sir Bedevere and Darren Southworth as Prince Herbert. Notable cast replacements have included Peter Davison and Bill Ward in 2007 and, briefly, Marin Mazzie, in early 2008.[6] Sanjeev Bhaskar took over from Alan Dale as the last King Arthur (23 June 2008 onwards). The London production closed on 3 January 2009; it was to be followed by a UK tour later that year which was later cancelled, the producers commenting "Due to unforeseen circumstances the UK Tour of SPAMalot will not be taking place as scheduled in 2009." [7]
Las Vegas
A production of the musical began Las Vegas, Nevada previewed on March 8, 2007 and opened on March 31, 2007 at the Wynn Las Vegas in the newly renamed Grail Theater (formerly the Broadway Theater, which housed a production of Avenue Q), with an extended balcony to allow for more seating, and a redesigned interior. As with other Las Vegas transfers of Broadway musicals, including Phantom of the Opera, Spamalot was condensed to run in ninety minutes without an intermission. Among the cuts were the song "All For One", most of the song "Run Away", the Knights of Ni receiving their shrubbery, and the "Make sure he doesn't leave" scene with Prince Herbert's guards.[8]
John O'Hurley, best known as J. Peterman on Seinfeld and the current host of Family Feud, starred as King Arthur.[9] Due to the Las Vegas production, the North American touring company would not perform in California, Arizona, or Nevada.[10] In addition to O'Hurley, the cast included Nikki Crawford as Lady of the Lake, Edward Staudenmayer as Galahad, J Anthony Crane as Lancelot, Justin Brill as Patsy, and Harry Bouvy as Robin, with Reva Rice as the standby Lady of the Lake.
Although initially contracted to run for up to ten years,[11] its final performance was on July 18, 2008. The Las Vegas production closed to make way for Danny Gans' move from The Mirage casino hotel; the theater was renamed the Encore Theater and integrated into the newer Encore Las Vegas resort. [12] Danny Gans died [13] unexpectedly on May 1, 2009, leading to rumors that Wynn's replacement might be to resurrect Spamalot.
Australia
A new Australian production started in Melbourne in November 2007 at Her Majesty's Theatre, with the official premiere on December 1. The cast featured Bille Brown as King Arthur and Lucinda Shaw as the Lady of the Lake, Ben Lewis as Sir Galahad, Stephen Hall as Sir Lancelot, Derek Metzger as Patsy, Jason Langley as Sir Robin and Mark Conaghan as Prince Herbert, with Christina O'Neill as the standby Lady of the Lake.[14].
The Australian production closed on April 5, 2008, due to lack of ticket sales. Little promotion was done outside Melbourne, with the expectation the show would tour after a successful Melbourne season. Tour plans are now in doubt due both to its premature Melbourne closure and the lack of suitable venues available during 2008 in other Australian cities.
Phoenix Ensemble Inc will present the Queensland Premiere, and Australasian non-professional premiere at the Pavilion Theatre in Beenleigh from 20 March 2009 for a five-week run, and at the Logan Entertainment Centre for three shows from 24 April 2009.
The Gold Coast Premiere season of Spamalot opens at the Spotlight Theatre, Benowa on July 24 2009 for a four week run. The Sydney Premiere of Spamalot is being held on 9 October 2009 by The Regals Musical Society.[15]
España
Primera versión del musical traducida a otro idioma, se estrenó en el Teatre Victoria de Barcelona el 9 de septiembre de 2008, dirigida por el Grupo Tricicle. Se editó una grabación en audio en diciembre de 2008. El 10 de septiembre de 2009 está previsto su estreno en Teatro Lope de Vega de Madrid.
Elenco:
- Jordi Bosch, como El Rey Arturo.
- Marta Ribera (Barcelona) y Dulcinea Juárez (Madrid), como la Dama del Lago
- Sergi Albert (Barcelona) e Ignacio Vidal (Madrid), como Sir Galahad.
- Fernando Gil, como Sir Lancelot, soldado francés y Pijus Magníficus.
- Julián Fontalvo, como Patsy y soldado de Herbert.
- Xavi Duch (Barcelona) y Victor Ullate Roche (Madrid), como Sir Robin.
- Jesús García, como Principe de Herbert.
- Josep Maria Gimeno, como Sir Bedevere.
Alemania
A German production has started on January 2009 at the Musical Dome in Cologne. [16]
Reactions by Monty Python members
The show has had mixed reactions from Idle's former colleagues in Monty Python.
Terry Gilliam, in an audio interview,[17] describes it as "Python-lite". He later told the BBC News, "It helps with the pension fund, and it helps keep Python alive. As much as we'd like to pull the plug on the whole thing it carries on - it's got a life of its own." [18]
Terry Jones - who co-directed the original film with Gilliam - expressed his opinions forthrightly in May 2005: "Spamalot is utterly pointless. It's full of air…Regurgitating Python is not high on my list of priorities."[19] However, when asked whether he liked Spamalot during an interview with Dennis Daniel on 98.5 WBON-FM "The BONE" on Long Island shortly after the musical's opening on Broadway, Jones said, "Well, I thought it was terrific good fun. It’s great to see the audience loving it. I suppose I had reservations as far as…well…the idea of doing scenes from a film on stage. I just don’t get the point of it. They do them terribly well…I mean, they really are good…but I just quite don’t understand what that’s about. It isn’t really 'Python.' It is very much Eric." Jones went on to say, "...I think the best parts of the musical are the new things. For instance, when they do the Andrew Lloyd Weber take-off and this girl comes in and sings 'Whatever Happened To My Part' since she hasn’t appeared since the opening number and she’s really furious! That is one of the great moments where the show really comes alive for me."[20]
In an Oct. 2006 interview, Michael Palin said, "We’re all hugely delighted that Spamalot is doing so well. Because we’re all beneficiaries! It’s a great show. It’s not ‘Python’ as we would have written it. But then, none of us would get together and write a ‘Python’ stage show. Eric eventually ran out of patience and said, ‘Well, I’ll do it myself then.’ He sent us bits and songs and all that and we said, ‘Yeah, that’s all right, have a go.’ But its success is so enormous that it took us all by surprise, including Eric, and now we’re just proud to be associated with it, rather pathetically." [21]
When asked by a Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter in 2008 if he had to be persuaded to provide the recorded voice of God in the musical, John Cleese said, "Yeah, that’s right. And in the end I think Spamalot turned out splendidly. It’s had a tremendous run. I defy anyone to go and not have a really fun evening. It’s the silliest thing I’ve ever seen and I think Eric did a great job." [22]
Critical reception and box-office
The original production has been both a financial and critical success. Variety reported advance ticket sales of $18 million, with ticket prices ranging from $36 to $179. The advance made Broadway box office history.[cita requerida]
The show proved to be an early success when moving to London's West End. After high advance ticket sales the show's run was extended by four weeks, four months before the run commenced.[23] The play makes many references to the film and other material in the Python canon, including a line from "The Lumberjack Song", nods to "Ministry of Silly Walks," the "Election Night Special" and "Dead Parrot Sketch" routines, a bar from "Spam" worked into "Knights of the Round Table", a rendition of the song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from the film Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), and the "Fisch Schlapping Song" which is a reference to both "The Fish-Slapping Dance" and the song "Finland". Another reference is actually part of the Playbill of the show; there are several gag pages about a musical entitled "Dik Od Triaanenen Fol (Finns Ain't What They Used To Be)". This gag programme was written by Palin, and echoes the faux-Swedish subtitles in the credits of the original Grail Python film.
Broadway musical fans appreciate its visual and auditory references to other musicals and musical theatre in general, such as: "The Song That Goes Like This" (a spoof of Andrew Lloyd Webber productions and many other Broadway power ballads); the knights doing a dance reminiscent of Fiddler on the Roof, and another reminiscent of West Side Story (including the music); Sir Lancelot's mimicking of Peter Allen in "His Name Is Lancelot"; the character of Sir Not Appearing in This Show being Man of La Mancha's Don Quixote; a member of the French "army" dressed as Eponine from Les Misérables; and a line pulled from "Another Hundred People" from Stephen Sondheim's Company by the "damsel" Herbert. The song "You Won't Succeed (On Broadway)" also parodies The Producers and Yentl.
The show has not escaped criticism. In Slate, Sam Anderson wrote, "Python was formed in reaction to exactly the kind of lazy comedy represented by Spamalot — what Michael Palin once described as the 'easy, catch-phrase reaction' the members had all been forced to pander in their previous writing jobs... Spamalot is the gaudy climax of a long, unfunny tradition of post-Python exploitation — books, actions figures, video games — that treats the old material as a series of slogans to be referenced without doing any of the work that made the lines so original in the first place."[24]
The West End version has opened to two rave reviews so far. "It’s a wonderful night, and I fart in the general direction of anyone who says otherwise", wrote Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph (echoing a joke from the show).[25] According to Paul Taylor in the Independent, "it leaves you that high and weak with laughter, thanks not just to the Python provenance of the basic material but to the phenomenal speed, wit, cheek and showbiz knowingness of the direction, which is by the great veteran, Mike Nichols".[26] Michael Billington in the Guardian was less enthusiastic, though, stating "while I'm happy to see musicals spoofed, the show's New York origins are clearly exposed in a would-be outre number which announces "we won't succeed in show business if we don't have any Jews": a Broadway in-joke that has little purchase this side of the Atlantic." Billington adds, "With hand on heart, I'd much rather watch Lerner and Loewe's Camelot than Eric Idle's smart-arsed Spamalot."[27]
The Las Vegas production met with glowing reactions. It was awarded the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Number 1 show of 2007, the year it opened.
Coconut orchestra world record
On March 22, 2006, to mark the first anniversary of the official Broadway opening, the "World's Largest Coconut Orchestra", 1,789 people clapping together half coconut shells, performed in Shubert Alley, outside the theatre. The claim was officially recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. This record was broken by 5,567 people in Trafalgar Square at 7pm on 23 April 2007, led by the cast from the London production, along with Jones and Gilliam, with the coconuts used in place of the whistles in "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life". This formed part of London's St George's Day celebrations that year and was followed by a screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.[28]
References
- ↑ Gans, Andrew."Spamalot Will Now Close Jan. 11, 2009",playbill.com, November 21, 2008
- ↑ Colón, Brian S. (ed.), "Popejoy Presents Broadway in New Mexico: The 2007-2008 Season", Popejoy Hall, University of New Mexico, 2007; Albuquerque, New Mexico
- ↑ Gans, Andrew."Chamberlain Will Be King in Spamalot Tour in 2009",playbill.com, November 18, 2008
- ↑ tour informationmontypythonsspamalot.com, accessed February 26, 209
- ↑ Tour info
- ↑ Nina Söderquist Wins Swedish Reality TV Contest to Star in Spamalot, Broadway.com in London, 3 February 2008
- ↑ http://www.mayflower.org.uk/news.asp?news=107
- ↑ «'Spamalot' brings Python double talk to the Strip». Las Vegas Review Journal. 31 de marzo de 2007.
- ↑ «'Spamalot' betting on shelf life». Las Vegas Review Journal. 23 de enero de 2007.
- ↑ «Wynn Woos 'Spamalot' West». CBS. 25 de julio de 2005.
- ↑ «Wynn Woos 'Spamalot' West». CBS. 25 de julio de 2005.
- ↑ Richard Abowitz, Wynn's 'Spamalot' trade for Danny Gans greeted by collective yawn, LATimes.com, April 18, 2008, Accessed January 6, 2008.
- ↑ PR Newswire, Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year Danny Gans Dies at 52, May 1, 2009
- ↑ «Casting Announced for Australian Production of Spamalot». BroadwayWorld.com. Consultado el 13 de octubre de 2007.
- ↑ The Regals Musical Society, Sydney Spamalot Premiere, May 11, 2009.
- ↑ «„Spamalot“ im Musical Dome». Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (en german). 1 de agosto de 2008. Consultado el 1 de agosto de 2008.
- ↑ Quickcast Interview with Terry Gilliam by Ken Plume
- ↑ «Battle-scarred Gilliam looks to future - Feb. 22, 2006». timeout.com. 22 de febrero de 2006.
- ↑ «Entertainment News - May 06, 2005». AbsoluteNow.com. 6 de mayo de 2005.
- ↑ «Lethally Funny Python». herecomethewilddogs.com.
- ↑ «Michael Palin: Interview - Oct. 31, 2006». timeout.com. 31 de octubre de 2006.
- ↑ «John Cleese Loves Spamalot... - May 5, 2008». timeout.com. 5 de mayo de 2008.
- ↑ «We love Spam a lot: Python musical extends run». Chortle: The UK Comedy Guide. 24 de junio de 2006. Consultado el 13 de octubre de 2007.
- ↑ Anderson, Sam (21 de junio de 2006). «And Now For Something Completely Deficient». Slate.com.
- ↑ Spencer, Charles. «Truly, a knight to remember» (review). Daily Telegraph.
- ↑ Taylor, Paul (17 de octubre de 2006). «First Night» (review). The Independent.
- ↑ Billington, Michael (17 de octubre de 2006). «Spamalot» (review). Guardian Unlimited.
- ↑ «Spamalot cast sets coconut record». BBC News. 23 de abril de 2007.
External links
- Official site
- Plantilla:Ibdb title
- A Quest Beyond The Grail, a review of Spamalot from the New York Times (registration required)
- Photos, Videos, Cast Interviews and Information on the West End Production on Theatre.com
- MSNBC/Newsweek interview with Idle and Nichols explaining elimination of some pre-Broadway scenes
- Tim Curry interview from May 2005 from American Theatre Wing Downstage Center, recorded in MP3 format
- Daily Telegraph review of West End version
- Spanish production Official Site
- German production Official Site
- Tribute to Richard Chamberlain website Spamalot
- Spot Light Theatre Australia - Spamalot starting July 24th 2009