Another MONTY PYTHON stage show coming

I know Eric Idle needs work and the other surviving members of Monty Python don't want to deprive him of some late-career fame and fortune. But that Holy Grail stage musical thing just looks grim, and now Idle's launching a new, not-exactly-Python project that sounds even more depressing. (Click the image at left to buy The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset.)

An Evening Without Monty Python: A very silly evening of Sketches and Songs lovingly drawn from the Python canon, like An Evening With Cole Porter, only funnier will be a limited-engagement stage show featuring Hank Azaria, Jane Leeves, Alan Tudyk, Rick Holmes and Jim Piddock performing old Python sketches. Idle will co-direct. Beginning in September there will be 10 performances at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood, followed in October by 5 shows at Town Hall in New York City.

Sigh. Now would be a very good time for Graham Chapman's endlessly outraged colonel character to march in and put a stop to all this for being too silly.

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