MONTY Python’s Spamalot is galloping back to Woking and Southampton. 

Joe Pasquale will reprise the role of King Arthur, alongside Todd Carty as Patsy.

Todd Carty 

Basingstoke Gazette:

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

Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and features a bevy (or possibly a brace) of beautiful show girls, witch burnings (cancelled due to health and safety) not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people.

The show features fantastic tunes more magical than a Camelot convention, including He Is Not Dead Yet, Knights of the Round Table, Find Your Grail and, of course, Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.

Eric Idle said: “Spamalot is fun. The new production is funnier, it’s more like a Python show. There are new costumes and new sets and a new director (Christopher Luscombe), so it’s just got a whole different spirit to it.”

Having first played King Arthur for a successful West End run last summer, comedian Joe Pasquale is pleased as punch to be back in the role.

Joe originally won the part of King Arthur through a unique casting process.

Bonnie Langford contacted him on Twitter when she was playing The Lady of The Lake, invited him to see her in the show and suggested to the producers that he’d be a great King Arthur.

Joe commented: “I loved my time as King Arthur in the West End production. I am very excited to have been asked to return for the new UK Tour. I can’t wait to get back on my invisible horse as we search the land for The Holy Grail.”

The tour will call in to the New Victoria Theatre in Woking from March 9-14 and The Mayflower in Southampton from April 7–11.

NEW VICTORIA THEATRE: 0844 871 7645, atgtickets.com/woking

MAYFLOWER: 02380 711811 or online at mayflower.org.uk