Blog Post # 8

I recently heard that the Broadway shows Hair Spray and Spamalot were closing and I just read this article (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/10/22/theater.january.closings.ap/index.html)about it. It is true, both are due to end in January 2009. Spamalot and Hairspray both were very popular shows just ending a tour. Hairspray is about the life in the 60's and some troubles with a TV station. The movie "Monty Python and The Holy Grail" is what Spamalot is based off of. Spamalot had 1,500 shows and Hairspray with 2,600 shows, who would think that they would end? I have seen both and loved their humor and was amazed with their singing. The message in Hairspray also was also so vivid through their acting, anyone could relate. Laughing is all you can do in Spamalot but yet it is coming to an end. In the article it implies that there isn't enough business during the non-holiday seasons to keep them up and running. There is new shows coming to take over. They have not been released yet but they will have prime places to perform, right by times square.