Video: SPAMALOT Cast Finds Their Grail on Opening Night

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The Tony Award winning best musical, Monty Python's Spam A Lot, is back on Broadway

And we're here at the St. James Theater on opening night to celebrate with the company

How does it feel to be back? It feels very, it's wonderful

I mean, it's kind of like a great gift, you know. I mean, it's like, wow, really

And to be just, you know, I mean, I didn't have any much to do with it

I mean, they've done it, and it's been to see it and see them hitting it out of the park

It's been a great delight for me, because they're all great. It's a wonderful company, and they're funniest shit

And they made me laugh. So what more can you ask for some, you know, I know the text pretty well

And they did most of it. We were literally across the street at the Schubert Theatre when you first opened, Spamelot

and now here you are at the St. James. What does this new production mean to you

It means to me that a whole new generation of actors are now like taken on the torch

You know, they've learned from those guys, those wonderful people who did it first time around

but they're making it their own. And there's about four or five of them who just grabbed the roll by the throat and go with it

You know, it's like they're not kind of, they're making it their own. I just love that

And there's a whole new young energy in it. And I'm thrilled, absolutely thrilled, you know

There was a beautiful blueprint that was made by the Hankazarias and the David Hyde Pierce and all And Sadda Ramirez yes Yes And of course Mike McGraw

Yes. God rest his soul. And the wonderful Mike Nichols. So, you know, I mean, I just wish they could have been here to see it

It is opening night. How do you feel tonight? It's very emotional. I love the show. I love the people in this show so much

I love our cast. I love our creative team. I love the staff and the house, house staff of the St. James

I've worked here before. But when you come back and you work someplace like this and you're close with people

they all remember me and I remember them. So it's really like a family atmosphere here

Also, we're bringing a revival comedy to New York. I feel like the world needs this right now

And we're giving that to them. And I'm just so, I'm so honored, you know

I never thought I would do this show. I just never thought I would do it

And so here I am. It's just quite an honor. How do you feel tonight? I am ecstatic

I mean, we get to do spam a lot. We get to do this fantastic, amazing revival

And also, we get to make people laugh tonight. And I think that's what we need right now

And you know me, I love making people happy and making people smile, but this show really, really does it

So I'm so glad. And this cast is fantastic. What's made this so special with working on this show

The entire cast, the entire crew, the people. I know that's such a boring generic answer

but it is so sincerely honest. I'm only here because Nick Walker believed in me

and he vouched for me and he said, hey, I feel Taryn would be good at this

and he was right. I'm extraordinary. No. No, but that kind of faith and trust

and sticking your neck out has only been rewarded by the gifts and support of everyone involved in this production We all like each other a lot and it makes doing the show a real party too

It makes it joyful every eight times a week. I love everybody in this building

I mean, that is not a BS line. Everyone in the show is so generous, so kind, so funny

I learn things from every single one of the actors on stage. The ensemble included, the swings included

It's just, it's the most talented group of people I've ever worked with

It's like recess. It's just, I'm, I'm every day just allowed to kind of go and play with a bunch of my friends

And Josh, our wonderful director, tells us when it's time to come in for our broccoli and vegetables

But until then, we're just kind of giving free reign to play. And that is such a gift, especially on a Broadway stage, to just be like, oh, my God, yeah, go out and be that kid again

For as ever, for however long you can. Like, I do not

take this for granted at all. It's just amazing. You have perfect timing with your coconuts

Well, I play with my coconuts a lot and so yeah, when you

play with your coconuts a lot, you can get really good timing

No, but I'm serious. I should have said you have perfect rhythm with those

coconuts. I do have a very good rhythm with my coconuts. You know, the props

guys tried to do it. They can't, they can't get the right rhythm. The secret

is, it's only three sounds. but it up but a da da da but it up but really that would be a three-legged horse wouldn't it

watching the audience fall in love with this show all over again what that means to from a second they walk into the theater

it really special it and and it scary when you do a comedy in a rehearsal room and there no response because everybody who in that room has seen it 450 times And then you get into a theater and you see how people love it and how much it means to be

It's beautiful. It's a little scary every night because it's a little scary just the case

You don't really know what's going to happen, but it's been beautiful every moment. And a huge relief

You feel the ancestors of this piece. Like, I can feel Eric Idol

David Hyde Pierce. I can feel John Cleese and Hankisaria. I can feel the pythons

I can feel the people who have done this musical, Mike Nichols. There's a lot of ghosts

And it's really wonderful. And I feel like what we're doing is an homage to the film

an homage to the original production. It's our own new thing, our own spin, our own take

I think we're marrying it all in a beautiful way. I feel like I'm a part of something much bigger than myself

What's made this so special for you with working on this? I think the actors

I think they're just so special. And I really feel like we're really featuring them

And I think this is a time to lift them up in the way that I keep saying

it's just like early days Carol Burnett where people are going to see these clowns and these comedians

and say, oh my God, that skill set is so. so monumental of what they can do in just 10 feet of space to make an audience laugh like that

I'm very proud of them and I'm excited for everybody to see what they can really do and for

people to really love them again, you know, love them more because they're just such a great group