The replacement of Tim Curry by Olivier Award-winning thespian Simon Russell Beale has done nothing to diminish the show's nonstop barrage of laughs.
A Quest Beyond the Grail By BEN BRANTLEY
That "Spamalot" is the best new musical to open on Broadway this season is inarguable, but that's not saying much. The show is amusing, agreeable, forgettable - a better-than-usual embodiment of the musical for theatergoers who just want to be reminded now and then of a few of their favorite things.
Review by Eric Grode
Spamalot generates an awful lot of smiles and a decent number of giggles. And that's more than a lot of musicals can say. But Nichols, Idle, Pierce and Azaria are capable of laughs--big, satisfying, infectious belly laughs--and those are few and far between.
I could admire all the affection and ingenuity that went into adapting "Spamalot" to the stage as well as the Herculean energy the cast puts into it.
I only wish I had laughed more.
The production is sometimes pitched too frantically, a state of affairs that contributes to an unhealthy amount of scenery-chewing. Ramirez's performance, for example, begins just boisterous…