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***Given a meta quality in the 2023 revival. Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, who plays the Lady of the Lake, was one of the stars of ''Beetlejuice'', which closed at the Marquis Theater to make way for ''Once Upon a One More Time'', a jukebox musical based on Spears’ music.
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* ClicheStorm: Of the parodied sort. ''Spamalot'' mocks every [[UsefulNotes/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd Broadway trope in existence,]] from [[AwardBaitSong love songs]] to [[HappyEnding happy endings]] and weddings.

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* ClicheStorm: Of the parodied sort. ''Spamalot'' mocks every [[UsefulNotes/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd [[Platform/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd Broadway trope in existence,]] from [[AwardBaitSong love songs]] to [[HappyEnding happy endings]] and weddings.
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** The jokes about Music/BritneySpears, for that matter. Who now?
** The line in the finale where Lancelot and Prince Herbert remark "in 1000 years time, this will still be controversial" in reference to their marriage is starting to come across as this.

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** The jokes joke about being replaced by Music/BritneySpears, for that matter. Who now?
who was at the height of her popularity at the time, but since then suffered a CreatorBreakdown and has been mostly out of the public eye. While many pop stars have temporarily stepped into Broadway roles, Spears has never done Broadway theatre at all.
** The line in the finale where Lancelot and Prince Herbert remark that "in 1000 years time, this [their marriage] will still be controversial" in reference to their controversial." While same-sex marriage is starting to come across as this.certainly still controversial in many places today, even where it's legal, there was probably more progress made in the 10 years that followed Spamalot's opening than in the 1000 years prior.



** Patsy, especially in "I'm All Alone." He's stood by Arthur's side the whole times and invokes DudeWheresMyRespect when Arthur ignores him for most of the song.

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** Patsy, especially in "I'm All Alone." He's stood by Arthur's side the whole times time and invokes DudeWheresMyRespect when Arthur ignores him for most of the song.



* {{Woolseyism}}: The UK tour changed the song "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" to "You Won't Succeed in Showbiz". They also changed the jokes about Jews to stars for fears the the British audience wouldn't understand it due to the U.K.'s small Jewish population.

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* {{Woolseyism}}: The UK tour changed the song "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" to "You Won't Succeed in Showbiz". They also changed Showbiz", since England doesn't have quite the jokes about history of Jews to stars for fears in the theatre that the British audience wouldn't understand it due to the U.K.'s small Jewish population.US does.
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** Not Dead Fred's reference to getting "shot by Creator/MichaelMoore" in "He Is Not Dead Yet". At the time the musical opened on Broadway, Moore was still making documentaries but his career faltered big time before TheNewTens. The 2023 revival changes the reference to mention Website/TikTok.

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** Not Dead Fred's reference to getting "shot by Creator/MichaelMoore" in "He Is Not Dead Yet". At the time the musical opened on Broadway, Moore was still making documentaries but his career faltered big time before TheNewTens. The 2023 revival changes the reference to mention Website/TikTok.Platform/TikTok.
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** Not Dead Fred's reference to getting "shot by Creator/MichaelMoore" in "He Is Not Dead Yet". At the time the musical opened on Broadway, Moore was still making documentaries but his career faltered big time before TheNewTens. The 2023 revival changes the reference to mention Creator/TikTok.

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** Not Dead Fred's reference to getting "shot by Creator/MichaelMoore" in "He Is Not Dead Yet". At the time the musical opened on Broadway, Moore was still making documentaries but his career faltered big time before TheNewTens. The 2023 revival changes the reference to mention Creator/TikTok.Website/TikTok.

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