http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/entertainment/6748221.htm\'Spamalot\' set to open on B\'way in 2005
Associated Press
NEW YORK - You\'ve heard of "Camelot." But how about "Spamalot"?
Get ready for a Monty Python musical, directed by Mike Nichols, on Broadway.
A stage version of the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" will open in New York in the spring of 2005. Its tentative title is "Spamalot" but don\'t hold the troupe to that moniker.
"I like the title `Spamalot,\'" Python member Eric Idle said Thursday in a statement. `\'But I was thinking it might be smart to ask audiences on my upcoming U.S. tour if they liked it as much as I do. After all, they are the ones who will be paying Broadway prices to see the show."
Idle wrote the book for "Spamalot," which is based on material from the film created by Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. The stage version will also have music and lyrics by Idle and John Du Prez.
Casting has not been set but the choreography will be by Jerry Mitchell, who created the dances for "Hairspray" and the upcoming "Never Gonna Dance."
The Python troupe, a group of British performers, starred in the television series "Monty Python\'s Flying Circus," which ran on the BBC from 1969 through 1974 and also had a long run on American public television.
Idle\'s new tour of North America begins Oct. 1 in Montreal and ends Dec. 20 in Los Angeles.
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