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DiscountDelight - Monty Python's Spamalot (2005 Original Broadway Cast)
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List Price: $18.98
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Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602498802533
Format: Cast Recording
Label: Decca
Manufacturer: Decca
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Decca
Release Date: 2005-05-03
Studio: Decca
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Summary: Brilliant!
Comment: I've been listening to this CD since it was released last year and just saw the off Broadway version of the show over the weekend in Boston. Always laughed like hell when listening to this CD and seeing the show only made it better.
If you're a Python fan and love the movie, then you owe it to yourself to check out this soundtrack. Classic Eric Idle all the way!
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Summary: Great CD for all of those not yet dead!
Comment: If you love songs about Spam and campy show tunes (and Monty Python) than you will treasure this soundtrack. I wish it contained more of the lead-in comments to the songs as the bits were very funny (but then people would have no reason to see the show, I suppose). The show was great and I really love this soundtrack.
Long Live the Grail (I found my Grail! - Find yours!!)
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Summary: One of the Greatest Musicals of all time
Comment: Monty Python's Spamalot is one of the funniest musicals I have ever seen. I had to buy the sound track so I could enjoy the songs over and over again. If you are not a fan of Monty Python, you may not enjoy the humor. If you are, you are in for a treat.
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Summary: This is the Soundtrack That Goes Like This: Positively Brilliant
Comment: If you've seen Monty Python's SPAMALOT, you'll love this Original Cast Recording because hearing every song, line, and "Oh my!" will cause you to either break into uncontrollable laughter all over again or, at the very least, smile inappropriately among strangers.
If you've never seen SPAMALOT, but saw "Monty Python and The Holy Grail" 35 times, you'll love this because most of the songs refer directly to those "Grail" scenes that are forever burned into your brain, including John Cleese and Graham Chapman's "Knights of the Round Table." Added to that are favorites from other classic Python sketches and films, like Eric Idle's "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" and Michael Palin's "Finland," plus several original songs by Idle making fun of typical Broadway musicals, like "The Song That Goes Like This" and "I'm All Alone."
If, on the other hand, you've never seen SPAMALOT, "Monty Python and The Holy Grail," or other Python shows...um...congratulations on escaping from that cave, I guess. I would still encourage you to buy this CD, if only to enhance your sense of humor.
Other reasons to buy the SPAMALOT cast recording? A hilarious spoof of Barry Manilow-style songs, an Intermission interlude worthy of a Terry Gilliam cartoon, and tremendous performances by David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria, Chris Seiber, and others, including the best role Tim Curry has had since "Rocky Horror Picture Show."
You really should buy this one.
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Summary: Spamalot
Comment: I have really enjoyed hearing this DC over and over. I gave it to several friends and they also have played it over and over.
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As gleefully silly yet wickedly smart as the beloved British comedy troupe and their 1975 cinematic savaging of the Arthurian legend that inspired it, this adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail by MP's Eric Idle and longtime musical co-conspirator John Du Prez has much more on its feverish agenda than merely trashing King Arthur and firmly upending his Round Table. The film's plot remains largely intact, but its core songs ("Knights of the Round Table," "Brave Sir Robin") and comic thrust have been both expanded and satirically redirected, a musical comedy shotgun that takes dizzy aim at pop culture in general, and Broadway in particular. After typically Pythonesque distractions that somehow find us in "Finland..," stars David Hyde-Pierce, Tim Curry, Hank Azaria and company get busy conjuring the Lady of the Lake with the unlikely help of "Laker Girls..," while cast members Sara Ramirez and Christopher Sieber deliciously skewer contemporary Broadway cliches via the loopy showstopper "The Song That Goes Like This," a tune whose reprise also deliciously sends up every overwrought stage diva from Merman to Minelli. Idle has shrewdly ripped off--well, interpolated--Life of Brian's "Always Look On the Bright Side" for the new show, and even a snatch of "The Lumberjack Song" in "He Is Not Dead Yet." "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" reveals the frankly Semitic secret to stage success, and the French get can-canned on "Run Away!" Meanwhile, our bravest knight is de-closeted on the Manilow-mauling "His Name is Lancelot" before the familiar sound of clomping coconut shells brings down the curtain on the season's goofiest if satirically dead-on comic delight. --Jerry McCulley Have Fun with More Irreverent Musicals 
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