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Spamalot Recoups Entire Investment After Six and a Half Months
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 17, 2005
With a distribution to investors on October 6th, the producers of Monty Python's Spamalot returned the final 25% of the production's capitalization on Broadway, just six and a half months after the New York opening.
Lovingly "ripped-off" from the internationally famous comedy team's Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot received the 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical as well as Best Director for Mike Nichols and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Ramirez. It also won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Musical. The show's score is by Eric Idle and John Du Prez with a book by Idle, and in addition to Ramirez, it opened with Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Sieber, Michael McGrath, Hank Azaria, Christian Borle and others as its loopy knights. Produced by Boyett Ostar Productions, Spamalot boasts choreography by Casey Nicholaw, set and costume design by Tim Hatley, lighting design by Hugh Vanstone and sound design by ACME Sound Partners.
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. The show, which opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 17th, has continued to play to sold-out houses and break box office records.The show is performed Tuesday through Saturday at 8PM, Wednesday and Saturday
matinee at 2PM and Sunday matinee at 3PM at the Shubert Theatre (225 West
44th Street).
Tickets for Monty Python's Spamalot can be ordered throughTelecharge at (212) 239-6200 or www.telecharage.com.
For more information, visit www.montypythonsspamalot.com.
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