An invite and ticketing information: Spamalot

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Hillcrest High School has a tradition of performing top quality musicals. These include, Seussical the Musical, Fame, South Pacific and The Best of Broadway.  

This year we are performing only the second performance of Spamalot in New Zealand, the first performance North of Palmerston North.  

Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table and featuring a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people. Monty Pythons Spamalot “raises silliness to an art form,” (The Sunday Times) and has been called a “no-holds-barred smash hit” (The New Yorker) TONY WINNER – Best Musical 2005. 

Hillcrest High School have a strong tradition of performing top class musicals and this one will be no different. There are 65 students in the cast and 25 in the orchestra Directed by Maestro Paul Ellery.

There is a talented cast and an outstanding orchestra. The show will be directed by Scott Hall a former pupil of Hillcrest High School and a current Hilary Scholar at Waikato University. The Musical director will be the talented Paul Ellery from Hillcrest and the wonderful choreographer Julie Christie.  

With 6 performances at the Top Class Southwell Performing Arts Centre, there is a time for everyone to come and enjoy the show.  

Spamalot is the comedy musical from the minds of Eric Idle and John Du Prez. It is adapted (or lovingly ripped off, according to Idle) from the film Monty Python and The Holy Grail by John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam.

After weeks preview shows in Chicago, Illinois, the production officially opened on Broadway in New York on March 17th 2005 to rave reviews. It won three Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (Sara Ramirez as The Lady Of The Lake) and Best Direction of a Musical (Mike Nichols).

Eighteen months after its Grand Opening on Broadway, Spamalot was moved to London's West End, Premiering on October 17th 2006. Since it began, the show has had a non-stop US tour, a permanent cut-down show in Las Vegas, a stint Melbourne and is soon to be translated into in Spanish for a permanent Barcelona production.

Famous faces involved in the show include Tim Curry, Peter Davison, Simon Russell Beale, Alan Dale, David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria, Alan Tudyk, Bill Ward, Sara Remirez, Clay Aiken and Christopher Sieber. John Cleese appears in a recorded performance as God. Beale, Sieber and Curry have all featured in both the New York and London, productions, the latter two as part of the original productions.