Spamalot officially opened on Broadway on Thursday, March 17, and it's being touted as the next The Producers -- certainly one of the most exciting openings on Broadway in a few years.

It was reviewed in the New York Times by Ben Brantley, and he gave it a pretty good review, and with much of which I would agree. Although I saw the show a couple of months ago in Chicago, I think that he summed up my reaction to the show as:

Do these disparate elements hang together in any truly compelling way? Not really. That "Spamalot" is the best new musical to open on Broadway this season is inarguable, but that's not saying much. The show is amusing, agreeable, forgettable -- a better-than-usual embodiment of the musical for theatergoers who just want to be reminded now and then of a few of their favorite things.