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Audiences all around the world have been roaring with laughter since Monty Python's Spamalot, by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2005.
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.
Don't miss your night with the Knights of the Round Table at the most infectiously funny musical of the millennium.
Steven Pacey stars as Arthur, King of the Britons; Bonnie Langford is the Lady of the Lake; and Todd Carty is back again (there's no getting rid of him it seems) on coconuts as Patsy.
A hoot only a dead parrot would fail to enjoy.
It is, overall, a consummately daft, wonderfully entertaining night out, well worth going to see.
The show seems to have lost most of that satirical energy, and emerges as little more than a wearily affectionate re-run of scenes that work better on film.
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King's Theatre, Glasgow from Monday March 12, 2012, until Saturday March 17, 2012. More info: www.theambassadors.com/kings/
Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh from Monday March 19, 2012, until Saturday March 24, 2012. More info: www.edinburghplayhouse.org.uk
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