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Monty Python’s Spamalot – Mmm-mmm Good!

The wait is over, Cleveland!  The Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2005,  MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT, will open the KeyBank Broadway Series at Playhouse Square Center, running October 3-15, at the State Theatre.

SPAMALOT is the outrageous new musical comedy lovingly “ripped-off” from the internationally famous comedy team’s film classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the same folks who lit up our TVs in the 1970s with “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”

Under the deft directorial touch of Mike Nichols (Tony Award-winner for Best Director for SPAMALOT), Python fans will be in heaven and musical comedy buffs will connect with all the inside jokes.  Oh, so you’re not a “Pythomaniac” who’ll laugh hysterically just hearing the word “Ni” or at the mention of a deadly rabbit?  You didn’t see the movie from which SPAMALOT is indeed “ripped off” or any of the 45 TV episodes? 

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