Monty Python's Holy Grail goes Broadway 313
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."
What is.. (Score:2, Funny)
Ni! (Score:5, Funny)
One over there, an another over there...
Re:Ni! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ni! (Score:2)
Sweet! (Score:2)
I guess I'll just wait a bit for the probable flood of holy grail quotes/jests.
Re:Sweet! (Score:2)
Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:4, Interesting)
How popular is MP in Europe?
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:5, Funny)
I don'y know about Europe, but most MPs arn't very popular in NZ.
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:2)
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:5, Insightful)
What you see on the TV isn't *really* what americans like. It's what bullshit TV execs think americans like. I've enjoyed the hell out of british shows like, sharp's rifles, mr bean/black adder/thin blue line, danger uxb, all creatures great and small, yes minister ... etc. I think given a chance american audiences would rise to the task and appreciate more sophisticated humor ... if given a chance, that is...
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:2)
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:2)
Okay, this from a guy who liked 3's Company, but hey, Mr Roper was really sneaky trying to catch Jack in bed with the girls!
Re:Thin Blue Line was subtle? (Score:5, Funny)
You know, because nothing like "Survivor" or musical "Idol" shows has ever been successful in Britain.
European Subtlety (Score:5, Funny)
Re:European Subtlety (Score:2)
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:5, Funny)
Just asking.
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:3, Funny)
Do you mean subdued as in "Bennie Hill"? Or perhaps the subtle reparte that we see in "Are You Being Served"?
Maybe he's talking about Red Dwarf? Or the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:5, Interesting)
eg: "Do you want to come upstairs ?" becomes "Do you want a blowjob ?" in the US version of the travel agent sketch.
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:2)
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, they're a disease.
Re:Subtlety, Monty Python ain't got it. (Score:5, Funny)
Go away, or I shall taunt you a sec...oh wait, that's obviously your line.
Schmuck.
I just hope (Score:5, Funny)
I just hope that they eat Sr. Robin's minstrels early.
SPOILER ALERT ?!?!?! (Score:2)
Re:SPOILER ALERT ?!?!?! (Score:2)
The ending is where
Re:SPOILER ALERT ?!?!?! (Score:2)
That's not the ending.
The ending is where .... oh look a bunny..........
Personally, I hope they change the ending. I always thought the ending was rather, disappointing. I mean, it's not like they all end up on crucifixes seeing a happy song or anything.
Oh no, oh no, oh, no. (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh lord, when will it end. Please. Monty Python has created some of the most hysterical movies I have ever seen. Their skit/sketch comedy was genius. Yes, they sometimes had musical bits.
But *ONE MEMBER* reworking Holy Grail?
Sorry, I can't be a fanboy. All I can think is.
'Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Re:Oh no, oh no, oh, no. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh no, oh no, oh, no. (Score:2)
Re:Oh no, oh no, oh, no. (Score:2)
Re:Oh no, oh no, oh, no. (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh lord, when will it end. Please. Monty Python has created some of the most hysterical movies I have ever seen. Their skit/sketch comedy was genius. Yes, they sometimes had musical bits.
But *ONE MEMBER* reworking Holy Grail?
Sorry, I can't be a fanboy. All I can think is.
'Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Relaaaax, in through the nose, out through the mouth. The carpal pedal spasms will go away in a few minutes.
Not everything is a musical.
I gather you haven't seen The Producers on Broadway, have you? There was no Wilder or Mostel, but it was the most fun I have had in a loooooong time.
It's just a musical.
Whatever you do... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Whatever you do... (Score:4, Funny)
Watch out for the Spring Surprise though.
Critics Agree (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Critics Agree (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Critics Agree (Score:3, Funny)
We obviously have very different taste in women.
He's obviously never tasted a woman.
Idle (Score:5, Informative)
(Michael Palin, of course, being the best, with Terry Jones as Most Underrated).
Re:Idle (Score:2, Informative)
Idle was Sir Robin and was the guy on the cross next to Brian.
Idle was the best singer. I dunno, he might have been the weakest, but he had his moments. Some roles were roles only he could play. He's kinda like Phil Hartman on SNL. Doesn't have the most individually funny characters, but he did so many things that only he could do (announcers is the one that springs to mind quickest).
Also, I think he was one of the better writers. "Road to Mars" and his other m
Re:Idle (Score:2)
I believe he's credited as "Mr. Cheeky".
Guard: Crucifixion?
Mr. Cheeky: No, freedom, actually.
Re:Idle (Score:2)
Not to mention.. (Score:2)
He did a great job with the music as well. Who can't whistle "Always look on the bright side of life"?
With his musical and comical talent.. This might well be worth seeing.
"And spank me-" "-and me" (Score:3, Funny)
Hopefully the actor that is going save get Galahad from the virgins is late coming onto the stage which will call for some adlibing . . .
Re:"And spank me-" "-and me" (Score:2)
Do you think... (Score:5, Funny)
Just imagine .... (Score:5, Funny)
The possiblities are endless -
Re:Just imagine .... (Score:2, Funny)
It's good to see (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's good to see (Score:2)
But really... (Score:2, Insightful)
But anyway, this'll be very interesting (aside from merely nostalgic of a film many of us have seen multiple times)
Dennis: Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Would you believe it's been done? (Score:2)
But not, as far as I know, as a musical. It was a straight play
Could be cool (Score:4, Interesting)
But what I'm more interested in is how on earth they're going to end it?
They can't really have a cameraman being bumped into by the press or something because that particular 4th wall doesn't exist onstage.
Maybe they'll have policemen storm the aisles and evacuate the theater.
Re:Could be cool (Score:3, Funny)
It's only a model.
--riney
Re:Could be cool (Score:2)
</song>
I wanted to do something to the Camelot Song for a skit at school. Just have people doing crazy shit on stage.
Also, LEGO did the Camelot Song using their eponymous objects. The movie used to be on the LEGO site, but they seem to have removed it. It was very amusing to listen to it in a fast
Re:Could be cool (Score:3, Informative)
On second thought... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:On second thought... (Score:5, Funny)
[trumpets]
King Arthur: Spamelot!
Sir Galahad: Spamelot!
Lancelot: Spamelot!
Patsy: It's only a musical.
King Arthur: Shh!
I just watched the film recently (Score:2)
Broadway! (Score:2, Funny)
Its only a model.
I feel sorry for all the women out there... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I feel sorry for all the women out there... (Score:4, Funny)
Well, that's just the sort of blinkered, phillistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome spotty behind, squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for a struggling artist, you EXCREMENT! You whining, hypocritical toady with your colour TV set and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic secret handshakes. You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing BASTARD! Well I wouldn't become a Freemason now if you got down on your lousy stinking knees and begged me!
Sorry, I don't know what came over me.
Re:I feel sorry for all the women out there... (Score:2)
Re:I feel sorry for all the women out there... (Score:2)
Which can only mean that you merely have a rather limited memory.
If Mel Brooks can do it... (Score:4, Interesting)
Of course, some gags, like the bunny might be dificult, it'd be very hard to see on stage. But the tradeoff is, we'll be able to see a chorus line singing, "We're Knights of the Round Table, we dance we e'er we're able...."
Of course, it also means more exposure to Sir Robin's minstrels probably. That could be problematic.
The thing I really want to see though, is how Terry Gilliam's animation transfers to broadway. How exactly do we depict an animator having a heartattack on broadway?! I mean, it's a given that the aptly named, "Sir Not Apperaing in this Musical" won't be there, but how can we cut the monster out?
Oh well, as long as they still depict god talking like a Gilliam creation, you know, head completely detaching, I will be happy.
Re:If Mel Brooks can do it... (Score:2)
Of course, it also means more exposure to Sir Robin's minstrels probably. That could be problematic.
Just have your fork and steak knife ready, just in case the minstrels really do sing a lot.
Re:If Mel Brooks can do it... (Score:2)
I have to wonder how they'll tie this one together. Although some scenes are obviously easy to transfer to a musical (the Camelot song, Launcelot's "rescues"), there are other scenes and random pieces of absurdity that don't fit the format that well.
Was I the only one (Score:5, Funny)
I mean REALLY.... I fart in your general direction...
When I was a lad... (Score:2, Funny)
Potential (Score:4, Insightful)
Now... (Score:3, Funny)
Then again, there are plenty of funny quotes to go around.
Hell, just check this poll [slashdot.org] and you'll see a good summary of the intro modded up in various posts.
Holy Grail - Monty Python = 0 (Score:5, Insightful)
I got yer ... (Score:2)
From the least (and nastiest) of the Pythons... (Score:5, Interesting)
Riddle me this. (Score:2)
Dolemite
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Holy grail in Russia.. (Score:5, Interesting)
The film itself was shot for peanuts in a damp part of scotland in just a few weeks. The actors really were damp and cold when performing it, giving the film an authentic grimness missing from glossy Hollywood takes on medieval Britain. All the music was cheap "mood-music" taken off some LP. Gilliam is a great director who doesnt make nearly enough films, in my view.
Monty Python on stage in Paris (Score:2, Informative)
See for example here [billetreduc.com] to book tickets.
No Florida tour dates :-( (Score:2)
More Proof... (Score:2)
The only ex-Pythons to have done anything worthwhile in the last 20 years are Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin. In the last 10 years I'd say Terry Gilliam alone.
The rest are just painfully unfunny, Cleese and Idle especially.
Re:More Proof... (Score:2)
Michael Palin is too busy going round the world in ever stranger ways to work on comedy.
Re:More Proof... (Score:3, Informative)
People! (Score:5, Funny)
well well (Score:2, Funny)
Ni? (Score:3, Funny)
Ni ni nininini
NI
Another book (Score:2)
A moose bit my sister once. No, really. (Score:2, Funny)
I bet someone replies to this, and sacks me.
Re:cool (Score:5, Funny)
Its Monte Python, for god's sake! Thats why!
I would say "You must be new here" but I don't need the karma.
Python, not Three-Card, Del, or Cristo (Score:2)
I just came here (Score:2)
they mentioned Evil Dead's musical (Score:2)
(In all seriousness, Evil Dead 3 sucks. Evil Dead 2 is "meh". The original is awesome. Can't attest the musical, it's a self respect thing.)
Re:they mentioned Evil Dead's musical (Score:2)
"Hail to the King, baby."
Re:they mentioned Evil Dead's musical (Score:2)
Listen bub. Anyone that fesses up to seeing not one, not two, but *all three* Evil Dead flicks is already short on self respect. So hell, why not catch the musical, too. I'll drive. =o
Re:cool (Score:3, Funny)
To justify the "foot" icon, of course!
I have fond memories of sitting in an upscale Japanese hibachi restaurant 15 years ago with a bunch of programmer "nerds" singing the Spam song. That, and an alcohol-induced duet of Sit on My Face with a coworker's wife. Come to think of it, it's surprisingly difficult to get arrested for disturbing the peace.
My God, man, had this not shown up on Slashdot many a fine nerd might have missed Idle's tour. He's n
Re:It's just insane (Score:2)
If SCO can make a case using whitespace for code.
Re:Just one technical problem... (Score:3, Funny)
Ohhh, I'm so stupid (Score:2)
Re:Just one technical problem... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Just one technical problem... (Score:2)
Re:Sad (Score:2)
The Rutles was 25 years ago. Yes, he is washed up (see his guest-staring role on the final, dying season of "Suddenly Susan"... actually, don't. It's every bit as awful as it sounds.)
I have modest hopes for "The Remains of the Piano" to be funny, and I pray that this musical doesn't suck, but Eric Idle has not been very funny in a long, long time, unless you count the many times he's recycled the stuff he and the other Pythons wrote back in the late 1960s.