10 Facts About Spamalot

1.

Spamalot is a musical comedy with music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle, and lyrics and book by Idle.

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2.

Spamalot completes a dance number, but is soon hit over the head with a shovel and killed by an impatient Lancelot.

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3.

Spamalot is very surprised to find that the "damsel" is actually an effeminate young man named Prince Herbert whose overbearing, music-hating father, the King of Swamp Castle, is forcing him into an arranged marriage.

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4.

Spamalot joined the show when it moved to Stockholm, along with Henrik Hjelt as Sir Belvedere.

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5.

Spamalot is the gaudy climax of a long, unfunny tradition of post-Python exploitation – books, actions figures, video games – that treats the old material as a series of slogans to be referenced without doing any of the work that made the lines so original in the first place.

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6.

In 2006, the London cast of Spamalot performed excerpts at the Royal Variety Performance.

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7.

On 10 March 2007, Spamalot partnered with HP Sauce to produce 1,075 limited edition bottles featuring a unique Spamalot take on the classic HP design.

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8.

Portions of the Spamalot original cast recording were featured as a special feature in the 2006 "Extraordinarily Deluxe Two-Disc Edition" DVD re-release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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9.

Spamalot cited the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney as a factor to the film's delay, saying it caused "everything to a grinding halt".

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10.

Spamalot stated in an interview around the same time with WBUR-FM that Haddish is still being offered the role of the Lady of the Lake, and that the script has "mostly been solved".

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