Spreckels Spamalot Offers Phenomenal Laughs for Next Two Weekends Top Quality Production of Hilarious Monty Python’s Classic Provides Comic Relief for Our Fire-Weary Community

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Jonathan Greenberg

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For the next two weekends, Rohnert Park’s Spreckels Performing Arts Center is providing welcome comic relief from the tragedy and sadness that has been the worst fire in local history with a hilarious, professional grade production of Monty Python’s Spamalot.

Tickets for the show, which will continue its run on Friday and Saturday nights at 8 pm from October 20 through the 28th, as well as a Thursday October 26 7:30 production and two 2 p.m. matinees on Sunday October 22 and 29th, can be purchased online for just $16 for children to $28 for adults here.

Spamalot provides some of the best laughter value for your live entertainment bucks anywhere. Broadway touring companies are rarely this good–and they typically cost two to four times the price of a ticket in the 500-seat Spreckels auditorium.

Shannon Rider leads the excellent singing, dancing and farce-spinning cast a diva in the part of The Lady of the Lake.

Rider and the professional 18-person cast perform a brilliant rendition of “Find Your Grail,” a song that provides a surprisingly powerful resonance following the tragic Sonoma and Napa County fires last week.

This welcome contribution to the area’s entertainment fare was directed by David Yen.

Shannon Rider rocks the house as the Lady of the Lake

Lorenzo Alvisio sings his heart out beautifully as Prince Herbert in drag as Peter Rogers finds his truth as Sir Lancelot.

Jonathan Greenberg

Journalist Jonathan Greenberg is the editor and publisher of the award winning Sonoma Independent, which he founded in 2015 to serve the public interest with analysis, solutions and advocacy. He was chief of research for the first Forbes 400 Rich List and has been published in dozens of national media outlets including the Washington Post, the New York Times, New York, Town & Country, GQ, the Huffington Post and the New Republic. Greenberg is also a technology entrepreneur. He is CEO of EV Everywhere, a technology licensing company developing the first 5 MWh mobile battery charging station to incorporate breakthroughs in battery density and MCS charging. A Web 1.0 pioneer, he started his first company, Gist.com to provide the first customizable TV listings on the Internet for companies like Yahoo, AOL and MSNBC. Gist won the first ever Webby Award in 1997. He served as Policy Director for the New York City Council’s Lower Manhattan redevelopment effort after 9/11. He is currently co-chair of New York’s Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, a 20-year old non-profit that trains inner city students in leadership skills. He holds a Masters degree for journalists from Yale Law School.

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