SPAMALOT

TONY AWARD FOR BEST MUSICAL OF 2005!

NOMINATED FOR 14 TONY AWARDS
INCLUDING BEST ACTOR FOR TIM

Clip from Tony Awards Page

Synopsis:

Trying to describe what this show is about is difficult. Some quotes, taken (out of context), from a review in the New York Times:

A resplendently silly new musical.

It seems safe to say that such a good time is being had by so many people (including the cast) at the Shubert Theater that this fitful, eager celebration of inanity will find a large and lucrative audience among those who value the virtues of shrewd idiocy, artful tackiness and wide-eyed impiety.

The fractured tale of the quest of King Arthur (Mr. Curry) and his ditsy knights for the Holy Grail has been woven into another quest: that of bringing the king and his entourage to the enchanted land called Broadway. This expressed goal makes ''Spamalot'' a two-tiered operation. On the one hand there is the dutiful acting out of the movie's most famous set pieces (the killer-rabbit scene, the bring-out-your-dead scene, the taunting Frenchman scene, etc.). On the other hand, and (surprisingly) it's the friskier hand, the show spoofs classic song-and-dance extravaganzas, suggesting what the satiric revue ''Forbidden Broadway'' might be like if it had an $11 million budget.

Mr. Curry is the best of the cast at translating classic Python style into a musical-comedy idiom. His stalwart, plummy-voiced Arthur wears a smile as inflexible as armor, and it deflects any suggestion that this manly king is in on the show's jokes.

From another review: Spamalot: A hilarious and haphazard musical search for the Holy Grail courtesy of the Monty Python boys.
Telling the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and the quest for the Holy Grail in song. Monty Python's Spamalot features "a chorus line of legless knights, men in tights (with legs), killer rabbits and sexy dancing divas." The production also promises "some of the most unforgettable musical numbers you will ever see in the theater on this evening!"

[Tim Curry]

Book and lyrics by Eric Idle
Music by John Du Prez and Mr. Idle
Inspired by the film ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail.''
Directed by Mike Nichols
Choreography by Casey Nicholaw Sets and costumes by Tim Hatley

Cast:

David Hyde Pierce (Sir Robin, Guard 1 and Brother Maynard)
Tim Curry (King Arthur)
Hank Azaria (Sir Lancelot, the French Taunter, Knight of Ni and Tim the Enchanter)
Christopher Sieber (Sir Dennis Galahad, the Black Knight and Prince Herbert's Father)
Michael McGrath (Mayor, Patsy and Guard 2)
Steve Rosen (Dennis's Mother, Sir Bedevere and Concorde)
Christian Borle (Historian, Not Dead Fred, French Guard, Minstrel and Prince Herbert)
Sara Ramirez (the Lady of the Lake).
[Tim Curry]

Here's a very nice recent interview with Mr. Curry from the "Downstage Center" interview program that The American Theatre Wing produces in conjunction with XM Satellite Radio. (You must have Real Audio installed to play this.)

Tim gets the girl!

Don't miss the cast recording CD, called, what else, Monty Python's SPAMALOT, the Cast Recording.

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Last revised on 06-07-2005 by Linda Fletcher