Spam-a-Lot: It’s Just a Flesh Wound

Spam-a-Lot: It’s Just a Flesh Wound

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Apr 29th 2007, 7:00am By Gabrielle Bouliane

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Call it one of life’s guilty pleasures, or perhaps it’s the simple fact that the people who grew up with the movie are now in a position to buy tickets, but Spam-A-Lot has hit the big time. The musical theater version was “lovingly ripped off” from the film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and became a financial and critical success, receiving fourteen Tony nominations and three awards its first year running. Not a direct copy of the original film, some decry it as a work of lazy comedy formed of catch-phrases, exactly what the Pythonites meant to fight against (and what made their work so fresh) in the first place. However, if you were a fan before, all signs point to a thoroughly enjoyable evening of Mock Camelot, with dozens of other pop culture references thrown in for good measure.

May 1 to 6 $27.50 – $67.50 Shea’s Performing Arts Centre 646 Main, 14202 847.1410

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