Spamalot
Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy adapted from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways.
One of the musical's creators, Eric Idle, explained the title in a February 2004 press release:
The original 2005 Broadway production, directed by Mike Nichols, won three Tony Awards, including the Tony Award for Best Musical of the 2004–2005 season and received 14 Tony Award nominations. During its initial run of over 1,500 performances it was seen by more than two million people and grossed over $175 million.
Synopsis
Before the Musical
A recording encourages members of the audience to "let your cellphones and pagers ring willy-nilly," and comments that they should "be aware there are heavily armed knights on stage that may drag you on stage and impale you." This was recorded by John Cleese.
Act I
Podcasts:
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by Monty Python
Spamalot
by: Monty PythonIt wasn't like all the times we fall
When I talk to you down, when I talk to you down
I can say what I wanted to say
I can say instead, I can say it
And you can say that you don't understand
And you don't understand
You don't
And you can say that you don't understand
And you don't understand
And you don't
Chorus:
If you find the time
To open wide your eyes
You'll see your favorite thing
Run away, run away, run away
And if you find the time
To open wide your eyes
You'll see your favorite thing
Run away, run away, run away
II:
You can say if you don't believe it
You wouldn't mean it, you wouldn't mean it
And you can tell how you've been before
But it don't make sense, and it don't make sense
And you can say that you don't understand
And you don't understand
And you don't
And if you knew her, you cand say you knew,
And say you want it,
Say you want it
Chorus:
If you find the time
To open wide your eyes
You'll see your favorite thing
Run away, run away, run away
And if you find the time
To open wide your eyes
You'll see your favorite thing
Run away, run away, run away
III:
It wasn't like all the times we fall
When I talk to you down, when I talk to you down
I can say what I wanted to say
I can say instead, I can say it
And you can say that you don't understand
And you don't understand
You don't
And you can say that you don't understand
And you don't understand
And you don't
Chorus:
If you find the time
To open wide your eyes
You'll see your favorite thing
Run away, run away, run away
And if you find the time
To open wide your eyes
You'll see your favorite thïng
Run away, run away, run away