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Monty Python's Holy Grail goes Broadway

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the 'tis-a-silly-place dept.

Sixyphe writes "First sighted on Yahoo News, it would seem that Eric Idle of Monty Python fame is working on a Broadway musical adaptation of everybody's favorite source of accurate medieval data, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The goal is 2005, and the working title is Spamelot (and not Spamalot, contrary to what an AP wire claims). And as a bonus to all you North-American Python fans, Eric Idle is soon to be touring in Canada and the US."

3 of 313 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Oh no, oh no, oh, no. by JasonMaggini · · Score: 0, Troll

    Some things (I would say most things, but that's me) just don't work as a musical.

    Anybody remeber "Carrie: The Musical"?

    Exactly.

  2. Sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's sad to see someone who was once so funny and so creative now trying to pump every last dime out of thirty year old material like a talentless hack. I guess comedy truly is a young man's game.

  3. Re:Holy grail in Russia.. by Paul+Lamere · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps it was a hit in the Soviet Union because the USSR was an anarcho-syndicalist commune.