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Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza

millie_dillmount

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Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#0
Posted: 5/10/06 at 3:13pm

You know how on the cast recording, David Hyde Pierce plays the piano cadenza during "You Can't Succeed on Broadway"? Well, on the tour during the piano cadenza, Bradley Dean (I might be mixing up names with whoever played Galahad) improvised and played the first few opening notes from the theme song in "Cheers" im the middle of the cadenza. I figured that it was because it was in Boston, which has two Cheers restaurants. How does he improvise in the other cities? Does he play something that pays homage to the city or what it is known for?

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re: Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#1
Posted: 5/10/06 at 3:22pm

I saw Pierce improvise too, but I forget exactly what he did.

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re: Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#2
Posted: 5/10/06 at 3:35pm

I think I read that when Kelsey Grammar saw the show, DHP played the theme (or part) from FRASIER.

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re: Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#3
Posted: 5/10/06 at 6:01pm

What about on the tour besides Boston?

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re: Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#4
Posted: 5/27/06 at 10:59pm

I didn't really see any improvising in Chicago. There were a few differences, unless I really don't know any Chicago homage songs.

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re: Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#5
Posted: 5/27/06 at 11:18pm

Wait they really play the piano?

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re: Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#6
Posted: 5/27/06 at 11:22pm

If he really does do this, I wonder what he'll do for Minnesota?

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re: Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#7
Posted: 5/28/06 at 12:40am

In Chicago he played something...I honestly can't remember what it was though....

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re: Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#8
Posted: 5/28/06 at 1:43am

It's David Turner who plays Robin, Bradley Dean plays Galahad. Yeah, after I saw it, I wondered if he would do different stuff in different cities. And Millie, it's because the bar they used in Cheers - well, the exterior of it, anyway - the Bull and Finch Pub, is in Boston, and the show's set in Boston, not because we just have "Cheers" bars.

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re: Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#9
Posted: 5/28/06 at 1:46am

yeah bwaybaby. David Hyde Pierce did and I guess the others do too. It's really cool.

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re: Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#10
Posted: 5/28/06 at 10:42am

Maybe in Minneapolis he'll play the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme.

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re: Spamalot Tour Question: Piano Cadenza#11
Posted: 5/29/06 at 11:21am

Is there sheet music for the piano cadenza out there at all? I really want to learn how to play it.

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