Spamalot

[kybearfuzz]

King Arthur meets the Knights Who Say "Ni!" in a dark and
very expensive forest in Spamalot!
Some friends and I (mostly non-LJ'ers) went out to grab some dinner last night and to see Spamalot at the Aronoff Center.

Dinner was... well... kind of a disaster. We had reservations at Trattoria Roma Ristorante across from the theater and were seated around 6 PM. Drinks came slowly with our waiter spending a bit more time with other tables than our own. By the time he had come to take our orders, it was 6:30 easily and he never even brought us menus. Other tables had ordered, eaten and left before we even finished the salad. We finally left at 7:40-ish and still had not received our entrees. He charged us for drinks, as the general consensus was that we weren't paying the high dinner prices for a pasta meal we have to put directly in our cars.

The show made up for all of that though. I haven't laughed like that in a long time. It's hard to describe without ruining it for anyone else. It borrows from so many Python sketches, giving a great taste for the familiar but adding something new and irreverent before it was done. One skit -- the one above -- (and I'll tell this one as it seemed specific to the day) was interrupted for an Orange Bowl update (Cincinnati was winning). It flew fly by so fast that I want to see it again. It's playing through the weekend, so if any locals want to see it, you still have time.

Comments

[prisonbitch.livejournal.com]

Trattoria's was that bad?

You're the only one I know that's eaten there. I do want to try the new Bootsy Collins Tapia restaurant in the old Uno's building. The best tapia around is El Meson in Dayton. And I'm sure Bootsy's prices are a lot higher than El Meson.

But Spamalot?! Oh, good god, it's a joy! I saw it a couple of years ago the first time it was at the Aronoff.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Well, the food was good, what little we had of it (rolls, soup, and salads), but the service was unbelievable. If I didn't know better, I'd almost swear the waiter forgot about us. When he came to tell us about the specials, we had to ask for menus (again) because they'd never given them to us.

[prisonbitch.livejournal.com]

that's really sad.

You should try Gordo's sometime. It's a hole in the wall sports bar on Montgomery in Norwood, across the street from the Norwood Public Library. It's like one of Jean-Robert's but on a budget. the owner was his souis (sp?) chef for years.