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A Trip to SPAMALOT as told through Twitter

 
My Twitter feed from the day:
·  @ChristopherGurr Can’t wait to see the show tonight! Driving all the way from San Diego.9:53 AM Jul 8th from TweetDeck in reply to ChristopherGurr
·  Pandora loves me, went from Knights of the Round Table into Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. gearing up for tonight. #spamalot10:25 AM [...]

Part III: Meeting an Idle (pun intended)

I still cannot believe that this whole set of events happened.  This all started out as a simple email, a small suggestion, mainly as a fan.  I suggested that since Spamalot would be in LA before coming to San Diego, I should go up to LA and preview it (having never actually seen the “tour”), [...]

The Role Of Spam In My Life

 
“We’re Knights of the Round Table
We dance whene’er we’re able.
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot.
We eat ham and jam and Spam a lot.”

Up until we announced that we would be presenting Monty Python’s Spamalot at the Civic Theatre, I had never given much thought about the canned meat [...]

Part II: All the world’s a Stage, and we are merely newts, or something like that.

Where last we left off (http://www.broadwaysd.com/blog/?p=236), my experience with Monty Python had always been that of me watching them on TV or in a movie theatre, never in person.  This would change late in 2003.  In the fall of 2003, I heard that Eric Idle was doing a live show in Las Vegas (at the [...]