Spamish Inquisition

Newsweek, February, 2005 by Devin Gordon

Broadway critics have not yet weighed in on "Monty Python's Spamalot," a new musical based on the classic 1975 film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," but by the time they do, a great many audiences will have delivered their own verdict. After a five-week run in Chicago, the warm, hilarious, profoundly silly show is receiving rapturous applause in previews on Broadway. Yet the director, the legendary Mike Nichols, and the show's creator, Eric Idle, an original Python, are still tweaking it. Nichols, 73, and Idle, 61, sat down with NEWSWEEK to explain why. Idle arrived first. He was ready to talk.

NEWSWEEK: Surely you could've found someone more distinguished to direct this.

IDLE: It's funny, we had to give a little speech before the first show on Monday, so I was...

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