Multi-Tony Award® Winner MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT
October 10 – 28, 2007

Fred Meyer Broadway Across America – Seattle announced that it will present the Tony Award-winning musical MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT, October 10- 28, 2007 at the Paramount Theatre. Tickets for this highly anticipated limited run will be offered immediately to current Season Ticket Holders.

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.

Directed by Mike Nichols, MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT features a book by Eric Idle, based on the screenplay of Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Monty Python creators Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, with music and lyrics by the Grammy Award-winning team of Mr. Idle and John Du Prez. Casey Nicholaw is the choreographer.

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.

Set and costume design for MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT is by Tony Award-winner Tim Hatley, lighting design is by Hugh Vanstone and sound design is by ACME Sound Partners. Others on the creative and production teams include David Brian Brown (Hair & Wig Design), Gregory Meeh (Special Effects Design), Elaine McCarthy (Projection Design), Joseph A. Campayno (Make-Up Design), Larry Hochman (Orchestrations), Glen Kelly (Music Arrangements), Todd Ellison (Musical Supervision and Vocal Arrangements), Michael Keller (Musical Coordinator), Peter Lawrence (Associate Director), Tara Rubin (Casting), and Gene O'Donovan (Production Manager).

Mike Nichols has been acclaimed as one of the great American directors in film, theater and television. He has won the Academy Award and eight Tony Awards. He recently received the Directors’ Guild of America Award for Lifetime Achievement as well as a DGA Award for the direction of the HBO adaptation of Angels in America.

Aside from his work with Monty Python in films and on TV, Eric Idle has written a West End play, Pass the Butler; three novels, including The Road to Mars, The Rutles - A Mockumentary; and many songs too rude to mention. He has sung opera, acted in movies, appeared on television and crossed America performing comedy on The Greedy Bastard Tour. His diary of his 15,000 mile journey by bus was recently published by Harper Collins, and his long awaited sequel The Rutles2: Can't Buy Me Lunch was released by Warner Video in March. There’s no saying what he might do next...

John Du Prez has composed more than 20 feature film scores including A Fish Called Wanda, A Private Function, The Meaning of Life, Personal Services, UHF, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I, II & III. He has worked with Eric Idle since 1978.

Monty Python isn’t a person, but a group of British actors and writers (and one American) that performed their famous comedy show Monty Python’s Flying Circus on the BBC from 1969 to 1974, with subsequent international fame and success.

Current season ticket holders to Fred Meyer Broadway Across America – Seattle have the first opportunity to purchase tickets to MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT. Ticket order forms have been sent to all Season Ticket Holder households, and can also be ordered via phone and online through the series customer service center.

Corporate and Group clients can also purchase tickets at this time. A minimum of 20 tickets is required and available by calling 888. 214.6856. Individual tickets for the shows will go on sale at a later date. For future information about the on-sale date for SPAMALOT, sign up for the e-newsletter from Seattle Theatre Group at theparamount.com. SPAMALOT has been added to the current 2006-2007 Broadway season at The Paramount Theatre. The series is transitioning into a calendar season, and beginning with 2008, the season will follow a calendar year. A season of shows for 2008 will be announced in late 2007.

MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT is an offering of Fred Meyer Broadway Across America – Seattle, which is presented with Seattle Theatre Group, and is coordinated by Broadway Across America – Seattle. Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue is the official hotel of Broadway Across America – Seattle. Wells Fargo is the official bank, American Airlines is the official airline, and Oceanaire is the official restaurant.