Monty Python comes to Broadway!

[Kelemvor]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040708/ap_en_ot/people_python

'Python' Cast Member Creates New Musical

NEW YORK - Eric Idle, an original Monty Python comedy troupe cast member, has resurrected material from the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and reconstituted it into a Broadway musical entitled "Spamalot."

The stage production, a comic take on the tale of King Arthur, features three songs from the 1975 Python movie as well as new music and lyrics written by Idle and John Du Prez.

The show includes skits with a chorus line of legless knights, attack rabbits and other goofy material lifted from the film.

David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria (news) and Tim Curry (news) will star in the stage production, which previews in Chicago in December, with the official Broadway opening set for March 2005.

The title comes from a song in the film, "I eat jam and ham and Spam a lot."

EDIT: Apparently the actual Camelot show is trying to get them to change the name from Spamalot because it's confusing... heh.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/82774.html

According to a local news report, the Camelot attorney's fax stated "I was disappointed to learn of the possibility that it might be called Spamalot. It is anticipated that there will be a Broadway production of [Alan Jay] Lerner and [Frederick] Loewe's Camelot opening in the same season as the anticipated Spamalot, and the presence of these two shows together, we believe, can lead only to confusion in the minds of the public."

 

[imported_Cheeseburger]

need tickets now!!!

 

[beatmix01]

that is absolutly awesome!

i hope they do the killer cat skit!

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: beatmix01
that is absolutly awesome!

i hope they do the killer cat skit!

you mean the rabbit or am I forgetting something? Graned it's been a while since I've watched it..

 

[pcmodem]

Hrm, I think I'm overdue for a visit to NYC and a Broadway show!


On second thought, let's not go to Camelot, 'tis a silly place...



This should be fun! :beer:
PCM

 

[ShotgunSteven]

So the producers of Camelot are saying they think their audience consists of brainless gits that couldn't tell the difference between the two names, or are they afraid that they might get an audience full of misdirected Monty Python fans?