Photo Preview: MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT UK Tour

Howard Panter  for The Ambassador Theatre Group and Bill Kenwright present Monty Python's Spamalot: A new musical lovingly ripped off from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
By Eric Idle and John Du Prez

UK Tour from May 29th 2010

First mug shots released of the rabid lot set to star in the UK Tour of Monty Python's Spamalot; Marcus Brigstocke as King Arthur, Jodie Prenger as the Lady of the Lake and Todd Carty as Patsy.

You might recognise the bloke with the coconuts from a BBC TV show called Grange Hill (Tucker!) or better yet as Mark Fowler from EastEnders (never heard of it!). Yes Todd Carty will play Patsy from May 29th until November 13th in the UK Tour of Monty Python's Spamalot.

The nation's favourite Nancy, Jodie Prenger, will open the tour in Wimbledon as The Lady of the Lake, before dates at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, Brighton Theatre Royal, Manchester Opera House, Sheffield Lyceum Theatre and Liverpool Empire.

"Funnyman" (Marcus Brigstocke's mum) Marcus Brigstocke will wield the mighty Excalibur as Arthur, King of the Britons at theatres from Wimbledon to Liverpool inclusive. Don't they make a nice threesome?

"The most infectiously funny musical of the millennium" (Eric Idle), Monty Python's Spamalot, will begin a UK tour on May 29th in Wimbledon and stagger wend its way through the UK to Nottingham (Sherriff approved, Robin not welcome), Glasgow (pending Scots uprising), Brighton (unless captured by the French), Bromley, Manchester Opera House, Leeds (the ever so Grand Theatre), Newcastle (in a special black and white version), Southampton (see Brighton), Stoke, Liverpool, Aberdeen, Cardiff (sheep go half price), Sheffield, Bristol, Woking (where?!), Northampton, Edinburgh (assuming the Scots behave), Oxford, Torquay, High Wycombe, York and (Ye Olde) Milton Keynes before settling down for four weeks at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham for the Christmas season (Season of Goodwill - Bring Gifts!). In 2011 it will move on to yet more theatres, including the new state of the art Waterside (home of the Lady of the Lake) in Aylesbury

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot is an almost-new musical with a book by Eric Idle and an entirely new score, (well, almost) created by Eric Idle and John Du Prez.

For full tour details visit www.spamalotontour.co.uk

Photo credit: Eric Richmond

The cast of Spamalot

Marcus Brigstocke