Shea’s is hosting a free party Friday night to celebrate the opening of pre-sale tickets for the May production of Monty Python’s Spamalot. There will be games and give-aways and food and drink and a cash bar in the lobby, then “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the inspiration for the new hit musical, will be shown in the theater at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale at 6 p.m. at this fun event (totally free except for a cash bar).
Lovingly “ripped-off” from the internationally famous comedy team’s most popular motion picture, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Spamalot is the winner of three 2005 Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Director (Mike Nichols), as well as the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Musical. The original cast recording of Monty Python’s Spamalot recently won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. Sold-out since it opened on March 17, 2005, Monty Python’s Spamalot has remained the hottest ticket on Broadway, continuing to break box office records at The Shubert Theatre.
Telling the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and their quest for the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s Spamalot features a chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent Frenchmen, killer rabbits and one legless knight.