The Wait Is Over! Monty Python’s Spamalot Tony Award Winner, Best Musical 2005 Is Coming To Philadelphia March 20 - April 8
February 16, 2007
Tickets ranging in price from $28 to $87.50 may be purchased by calling 215-731-3333, online at www.kimmelcenter.org/broadway, at the Kimmel Center box office, Broad & Spruce Streets (open daily 10am to 6pm) or at the Academy of Music box office (during performances only). Groups of 20 or more call 215-790-5883. Performances include: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 7:30pm; Friday & Saturday evenings at 8pm; Sunday, April 1 & Sunday, April 8 at 6:30pm. Matinee performances are Saturdays at 2pm; Sundays at 1pm, and Wednesday, March 21 at 2pm.
Lovingly "ripped-off" from the internationally famous comedy team's most popular motion picture, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Spamalot is the winner of three 2005 Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Director (Mike Nichols), as well as the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Musical.
The original cast recording of Monty Python’s Spamalot recently won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. Starring in the national touring production coming to Philadelphia will be: Michael Siberry (King Arthur); Pia Glenn (Lady of the Lake); Anthony Holds (Sir Dennis Gallahad); Jeff Dumas (Patsy); Christopher Gurr (Dennis’s Mother); Patrick Heusinger (Sir Lancelot); and Robert Petkoff (Sir Robin).
Sold-out since it opened on March 17, 2005, Monty Python's Spamalot has remained the hottest ticket on Broadway, continuing to break box office records at The Shubert Theatre.
Directed by Mike Nichols, Monty Python's Spamalot features a book by Eric Idle, based on the screenplay of Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Monty Python creators Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, with music and lyrics by the Grammy Award-winning team of Mr. Idle and John Du Prez. Casey Nicholaw is the choreographer.
Monty Python's Spamalot is produced by Boyett Ostar Productions.
Telling the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and their quest for the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Spamalot features a chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent Frenchmen, killer rabbits and one legless knight.
Set and costume design for Monty Python's Spamalot is by Tony Award-winner Tim Hatley, lighting design is by Hugh Vanstone and sound design is by ACME Sound Partners. Others on the creative and production teams include David Brian Brown (Hair & Wig Design), Gregory Meeh (Special Effects Design), Elaine McCarthy (Projection Design), Joseph A. Campayno (Make-Up Design), Larry Hochman (Orchestrations), Glen Kelly (Music Arrangements), Todd Ellison (Musical Supervision and Vocal Arrangements), Michael Keller (Musical Coordinator), Peter Lawrence (Associate Director), Tara Rubin (Casting), and Gene O'Donovan (Production Manager).
Mike Nichols has been acclaimed as one of the great American directors in film, theater and television. He has won the Academy Award and eight Tony Awards. He recently received the Directors' Guild of America Award for Lifetime Achievement as well as a DGA Award for the direction of the HBO adaptation of Angels in America.
Aside from his work with Monty Python in films and on TV, Eric Idle has written a West End play, Pass the Butler; three novels, including The Road to Mars, The Rutles - A Mockumentary; and many songs too rude to mention. He has sung opera, acted in movies, appeared on television and crossed America performing comedy on The Greedy Bastard Tour. His diary of his 15,000 mile journey by bus was recently published by Harper Collins, and his long awaited sequel The Rutles2: Can't Buy Me Lunch was released by Warner Video in March. There's no saying what he might do next...
John Du Prez has composed over 20 feature film scores including A Fish Called Wanda, A Private Function, The Meaning of Life, Personal Services, UHF, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I, II & III. He has worked with Eric Idle since 1978.
Monty Python isn't a person, but a group of British actors and writers (and one American) that performed their famous comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus on the BBC from 1969 to 1974, with subsequent international fame and success.
The Cadillac Broadway at the Academy season also includes: ANNIE (March 1 - 4); RIVERDANCE (May 15 - 20); and WICKED (July 25 - August 19).
All performances of 2006-2007 Kimmel Center Presents Cadillac Broadway at the Academy are suported by Cadillac, the Philadelphia Coca Cola Bottling Company, WPVI-TV 6, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Cadillac Broadway at the Academy.
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