Sara Ramirez Departs Spamalot on December 18

By: Oct. 11, 2005
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Tony Award-winner Sara Ramirez will pop out of the water for the last time as the Lady of the Lake in Spamalot.  The vocally-versatile star will play her last performance on December 18th.

Ramirez is reportedly in talks to appear in a TV show.  A replacement for the performer has not yet been announced.  However, "Huff" star Hank Azaria, who had taken some time off for his TV show, will return to the show on December 2nd; both he and David Hyde Pierce will stay with the show through April 2006.  Acclaimed classical actor Simon Russell Beale joins the cast of the Tony Award-winning musical on December 20th; he replaces Tim Curry. 

Ramirez, who won the 2005 Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her turn in Spamalot, has previously been seen on Broadway in A Class Act, The Capeman and the Gershwin revue Fascinating Rhythm.  Other credits include the workshop of Lennon, The Vagina Monologues off-Broadway and The Game, a musical adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons, at Barrington Stage Company.  On film and TV, she has been seen in "NYPD Blue," "Law and Order: SVU," "As the World Turns," You've Got Mail, Spider Man and others.

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.

For more information, visit www.montypythonsspamalot.com. For tickets to the Broadway production of Spamalot, call 212 239-6200, 800 432-7250 , or visit www.telecharge.com.  For more information on Ramirez, visit www.sararamirez.com.


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