Monty Python's Spamalot (musical)

During each performance of “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” a member of the audience helps the cast locate the Holy Grail. After the patron comes onstage at the end of the show, King Arthur (Courtney Rott Jr.) announces that the person’...

IT'S a dark and crowded theater in New York. The curtain has only been up five minutes, and Steve Wynn, the billionaire owner of the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, leans in, grips my knee and whispers in my ear: "Eric," he says, "this will be great in Las Vegas."...

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A good time for Monty Python obsessives as well as the Python-indifferent, "Monty Python's Spamalot" shares much in common with Hormel's mysterious canned product, the one packed with chopped pork shoulder meat and a few other things. You're not...

NEW YORK -- Two picket lines, two very different strikes. In a pelting rain, members of the Writers Guild of America marched this week in front of Viacom's Manhattan headquarters. Around the corner, stagehands were picketing in front of darkened theaters...

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Simon Cowell's most frequent complaint about Clay Aiken has turned into a prophesy: The "American Idol" loser is headed to Broadway. According to media reports, Aiken will premiere as Sir Robin in "Monty Python's Spamalot" starting on Jan. 18, 2008....

Deanna Dunagan was Broadway-bound and she was not happy. It was mid-October and she was due to leave in a week for New York, where she would reprise her acclaimed performance as Violet Weston, the pill-addicted, cancer-stricken monster of a mother at the...