Spam, spam, spam, spam...and Watchmen
Mar. 13th, 2009 10:59 amNo, not email spam. Not even the kind that comes in a can. I'm talking Spamalot! This is the second time I've seen it, and I think it's two very different casts. The show I saw last night had Richard Chamberlain as Arthur. He was OK, but not as good as the actor I saw in San Antonio last year. I mean, I love Chamberlain, but he's just not...hammy enough to play the Monty Python version of Arthur. (It was Tim Curry's role originally, which might tell you something.)
However, that being said, it was a great time and I loved it just as much the second time as I did the first. The actor playing the main Knight who Says Ni! pulled a fast one on the cast--when he was making up the new name ("We're no longer the Knights who Say Ni!, we're...") he started singing "The Eyes of Texas" and making the Longhorns sign. The entire audience joined in, and the cast was just staring at us, probably thinking WTF? Is this a cult? I just about laughed myself sick. You could tell how comfortable they were with the show--there were a lot of little things like that. And the actor who played the main French guard was a hoot.
And now, Watchmen.
I may write more later. This movie is still making me all thinky, several days on.