Re: Fw: And now for something completely...

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 06:18:44 -0700
 >
 > want to go?

Maybe.

How much are the tickets?  Should we bring you-know-who?

 > On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:26 PM, City Lights Theater Company <http://www.cltc.org/~citylights> wrote:
 > >Find your grail at City Lights -- or just enjoy some Monty Python-style humor 
 > >and summer special events!
 > >
 > >Dear City Lights friends and family,
 > >Â 
 > >Summer is anything but sleepy at City Lights. I'm seeing the theater full of 
 > >characters revving up for the opening of Monty Python's SPAMALOT: King Arthur, 
 > >Patsy, the Knights Who Say "Ni," the killer rabbit, the Lady of the Lake. If 
 > >you're a fan of Monty Python and the Holy Grail -- and who isn't? -- this 
 > >musical is like seeing an old friend on stage. A very silly one, who sings and 
 > >whistles and makes lots of noise with coconuts.
 > >Â 
 > >SPAMALOT runs July 24 through August 31, and there's even more on the theater 
 > >calendar than that: a rock band, a new-play reading, a theater professionals' 
 > >night, and improv classes, for starters... 
 > >Â 
 > >-Lisa
 > >
 > >Lisa Mallette
 > >
 > >Executive Artistic Director
 > >City Lights Theater Company
 > >Â  
 > >"What happens in Camelot stays in Camelot." 
 > > 
 > >The Lady of the Lake (Clara Rose Walker) and King Arthur (Ken Boswell) in 
 > >Monty Python's SPAMALOT. Photo by Mike Ko / siliconvalleydesigns.com. 
 > >Sure, classic Monty Python movies and TV are comic genius. But there's nothing 
 > >like seeing comedy live on stage: experiencing the crack timing, the energy, 
 > >the interactions between the actors and audience. It's even better on an 
 > >intimate stage like City Lights'.
 > >Â 
 > >That's the particular genius that original Python member Eric Idle brought to 
 > >the table when he decided to turn the 1975 movie Monty Python and the Holy 
 > >Grail into musical theater. The film had catchy songs like "Always Look on the 
 > >Bright Side of Life" -- why not make them song-and-dance numbers, and then add 
 > >some new tunes? After all, what would make a better musical than the King 
 > >Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table tale? Just add a few showgirls, 
 > >Finnish fish, and snotty Frenchmen.
 > >Â 
 > >Idle wrote the book for Monty Python's SPAMALOT, basing it on the Holy Grail 
 > >screenplay. Idle also wrote the show's lyrics, and teamed up with film 
 > >composer John Du Prez, a former member of '80s pop band Modern Romance, to pen 
 > >the music. SPAMALOT is "officially ripped off" from the film, and the other 
 > >Pythons seem OK with that.
 > >Â 
 > >"It's a great show," Michael Palin said in an interview a few years back. "It'
 > >s not 'Python' as we would have written it. But then, none of us would get 
 > >together and write a 'Python' stage show. Eric eventually ran out of patience 
 > >and said, 'Well, I'll do it myself then.' ... We're just proud to be 
 > >associated with it, rather pathetically."
 > >Â 
 > >SPAMALOT kicks off on Thursday, July 24, with an 8 p.m. Pay-What-You-Can 
 > >performance, with an 8 p.m. preview on July 25.
 > >Â 
 > >Tickets are going fast for opening night, 8 p.m. July 26, but don't grumble, 
 > >give a whistle! There are scads of other performances through August 31: 
 > >shows at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sundays. There are 
 > >also three 8 p.m. Wednesday shows: on August 13, 20, and 27.
 > >Â 
 > >Buy your tickets online or call 408-295-4200. Then join us on social media! 
 > >Follow our knight Patsy on Instagram and Twitter as he travels around, makes 
 > >friends, and wears some properly silly duds. Or use the hashtag #cltcspam to 
 > >talk about the show.
 > >Â 
 > >We'll also put up a weekly "Where's Patsy" post on Facebook with the knight's 
 > >photo taken in a mystery location. Be the first to correctly name Patsy's 
 > >location in a comment and win a ticket to the SPAMALOT preview!
 > >Â 
 > >Are you an actor, director, or designer? Come to the August 9 performance of
 > >SPAMALOT to meet other theater-makers and support Theatre Bay Area in its work 
 > >advancing our favorite art form. 
 > >
 > >We're already donating $5 to TBA for every SPAMALOT ticket sold using the 
 > >promo code "SHRUBBERY." But August 9 is special: that Saturday night, we'll 
 > >donate 25% of all full-price, single-ticket sales to TBA. 
 > >Also on the City Lights stage...Â