For reasons that I shaln’t explain here, this musical has been a cult hit amongst some of the security geeks inside Sun for the past few months.

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Seat prices

Up to 27 June 2006:
Mon to Fri eves and all mats: £30.00 to £10.00
Saturday evenings: £35.00 to £15.00

From 28 June 2006:
Mon to Thurs 8.00pm and Fri 5.45pm: £47.50 to £20.00 (£10.00 r/v)
Fri 8.45pm, Sat 3.00pm and 8.00pm: £50.00 to £30.00 (£10.00 r/v)

I reckon on seeing it early. I have no idea how well it will stick in the UK, but it has to be done. That it’s coming to London I think will draw at least one Belgian across the Channel.

Oh, and Spamalot is coming to London, too:

http://www.musicomh.com/comment/spamalot_0406.htm

Further casting announcements have just been made for the West End production of the hugely successful Broadway musical Monty Python’s Spamalot.

It has now been confirmed that Christopher Sieber will be playing the role of the blonde-tressed Sir Dennis Galahad, the part he made his own in the Broadway production at New York’s Shubert Theatre.

Sieber has an extensive background in musical theatre, previously starring in Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Milly and Beauty And The Beast.

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The musical has been ridiculously successful during its New York run, breaking house records and playing to sell-out audiences (despite having some of the most exorbitant ticket prices on Broadway). It’s done well with the critics as well, receiving mostly favourable reviews, as well as securing director Mike Nichols his eighth Tony Award.

Spamalot is, of course, the stage version of the cult film Monty Python and The Holy Grail. The oft-quoted film has been reworked for the stage by former Python Eric Idle with a new score by Idle and John Du Prez as well as several songs taken from the film itself. The expletively inventive Frenchmen, the limbless knights and the evil killer bunnies have all wisely been retained for the stage.

Spamalot is one of three major Broadway productions coming to the UK this year. Before the Monty Python musical begins its run in the autumn, the newly renamed Noel Coward Theatre, currently the Albery, will stage foul-mouthed puppet fest Avenue Q and the massively popular Wicked, the musical story of the witches of OZ, will open at the Apollo Victoria. The latter, set to star Broadway favourite Idina Menzel as the green-skinned Elphaba, has already broken UK box office records, pipped only by the imminent arrival of Dirty Dancing in the ticket sales stakes.

Monthy Python’s Spamalot opens at the Palace Theatre, London on 16 Oct 2006, following previews from 2 Oct and is booking to 31 March 2007.