In his new book Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit & The Biggest Flop of the Season – 1959 to 2009, critic Peter Filichia likens the Broadway hit Spamalot to the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ HPT 157: Terms of Frontierment, with music by Derrick Wang:
2004-2005
The Biggest Hit
Monty Python’s SpamalotThe Hasty Pudding Show goes to Broadway.
February 18, 2005. Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Hasty Pudding Theatre. Terms of Frontierment is the 157th musical written by Harvard collegians. This one takes place in the Wild West…
The Hasty Pudding Show is the one place on the planet where you’re guaranteed to hear show music that most sounds like the Golden Age of Broadway. Derrick Wang acknowledged that by including a nice Richard Rodgers “wrong note” in the title song.…
That same night in New York City, another Hasty Pudding Show is being performed…At the Shubert Theatre, Monty Python’s Spamalot is playing its sixth preview.
(pp. 249-250)
Click below for music from HPT 157: Terms of Frontierment:
Loyal Girl Scout Wanda Buymycookies (Todd Bartels) rallies her travelling companions. Lyrics by Maggie Shipstead and John Blickstead.
(N.B. The “Richard Rodgers ‘wrong note’” is the “blue” note sung in the phrase “terms of fron-tier-ment” and elsewhere throughout.)
Derrick Wang - “Glory”
— from HPT 157: Terms of Frontierment (Hasty Pudding Theatricals)
Rugged explorer Luke N. Forglory (Toby Burns) and loyal Girl Scout Wanda Buymycookies (Todd Bartels) set off on a Wild West adventure. Lyrics by Maggie Shipstead and John Blickstead.
