Spamalot
From: Monday, 27th September 2010
To: Saturday, 2 October 2010
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table and features a bevy (or possibly a brace) of beautiful show girls, witch burnings (Cancelled too expensive) not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people. The show features the hilarious songs He Is Not Dead Yet, Knights Of The Round Table, Find Your Grail and of course the Nation's Favourite Comedy Song (Reader’s Digest Poll 2009) Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.
Our Review:
29 September 2010
I just love this show. As one of those self-confessed anoraks who can recite vast chunks of Life of Brian or the Parrot Sketch with all the original vocal inflections, for me Eric Idle’s musical “rip-off” of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the realisation of a schoolboy fantasy.
It’s got all the silliness you might expect from the team that invented the French Taunter and the Knights of Ni. It’s also got a first-rate book by Idle that cleverly squeezes in other bits of Python to the basic framework of the Holy Grail movie, while adding its own fantastically satirical humour about the musical genre itself.
Plus there are plenty of wonderful songs and music from John du Prez, Idle’s writing partner, who helps to create what is unquestionably a proper musical from the bits of outrageous comedy the Pythons left lying about.
The down side to knowing it inside out and backwards is that when new performers come in and put their own sta...
Cast
Jodie Prenger (Lady of the Lake - Wimbledon/Bromley/Brighton/Manchester/Aberdeen/Edinburgh)
Hayley Tamaddon (Lady of the Lake - Glasgow/Leeds/Newcastle/Southampton/Stoke-on-Trent)
Marcus Brigstocke (Arthur King of the Britons)
Eric Idle (God - as a recording)
Todd Carty (Patsy May 29-Nov 13)
Simon Lipkin (Sir Galahad)
Graham MacDuff (Sir Lancelot)
David Langham (Prince Herbert)
Samuel Holmes (Sir Robin)
Robin Armstrong (Sir Bedevere)
Kit Orton (Male Ensemble)
Philip Catchpole (Male Ensemble)
Amy Papa (Female Ensemble)
Rachel Knowels (Female Ensemble)
Tim Bonser (Swing)
Paul Bullion (Swing)
Matthew Kelly (King Arthur - Salford)
Creative
Eric Idle (Book)
John Du Prez (Music)
Eric Idle (Lyrics)
Howard Panter (for The Ambassador Theatre Group) (Producer)
Bill Kenwright (Producer)
Christopher Luscombe (Director)
Hugh Durrant (Design)
Jenny Arnold (Choreographer)
Simon Beck (supervisor) (Music)
Nick Richings (Lighting)
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