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Last night Matt and I went to see Spamalot starring John O'Hurley. It's based mostly on Monty Python's The Holy Grail and featured full-on Monty Python humor with a side of political jokes and gay love.
Parts of the play were hilariously, laugh-out loud-really-loudly funny, but parts were also boring. Of course, it was well past my bedtime, so maybe I was just asleep. It's hard to tell. We got the cheapest seats, $30, in the corner of the balcony. Funny thing - the whole balcony was full, while the mezzanine had lots of empty seats. Couldn't even see the Orchestra.
We also had the meanest usher ever. She wouldn't give us two playbills because I had the nerve to ask for one instead of waiting. She proceeded to give everybody else as many playbills as people, until someone tried to take a playbill from the stack. Then you only got one. She also made sure that the entire party was present before letting them sit down. And she forgot her watch, so she had to ask Matt for the time. The first time she asked kind of nicely. The second time she said, "Excuse me, I need to get the time from you. I forgot my watch." I'm pretty sure if you're going to be such an anal, brusque usher, you'd better bring a watch.
Then on the way home, in the wee hours of the night (about 10:30) we got accosted by a very drunk man at the bus stop who had ripped out some flowers from across the street and brought them over to us, for Matt to give to his pretty wife, because his boyfriend was in Europe doing something and it was killing him. And, how do I get home? And, here, take some money. After we got on the bus, he proceeded to pound on it over and over again as it pulled away. Despite the fact that I'm pretty sure he kissed me on my forehead, I hope he got home okay.
Ah, the joys of standing on corners.
I'm not sure if I'd recommend the play. Maybe if it was only $20. It was hilarious, but so are the movies. So you could just rent one.
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