Spamilton | |
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An American Parody | |
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Music | Various |
Lyrics | Gerard Alessandrini |
Book | Gerard Alessandrini |
Basis | Broadway parodies |
Premiere | July 19, 2016: Triad Theatre, New York City |
Productions | 2016 Off-Broadway 2017 Chicago 2017 Culver City |
Spamilton: An American Parody is a musical parody of the Broadway show Hamilton. Written by Gerard Alessandrini, creator of the revue parodying Forbidden Broadway, it also parodies several other musicals, included Gypsy, Chicago, The King and I, Assassins, Camelot, The Book of Mormon and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and personalities, like Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Barbra Streisand, Bernadette Peters, Carol Channing and Liza Minnelli.
The show, directed by Alessandrini, had its first preview on July 19, 2016 and opened on September 8, 2016 at New York's Triad Theatre. Originally scheduled to run 18 performances, it received several extensions until May 28, 2017. It is set to move to the 47th Street Theatre on June 2, 2017, next to the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is presented.