| SPAMALOT on Broadway Announces Lancelot Casting | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:37 pm EDT 09/26/23 | |
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| ANNOUNCING THE FINAL KNIGHTS OF THE ROUNDTABLE LANCELOT IS... THROUGH SUNDAY, JANUARY 7 ONLY TARAN KILLAM WILL JOIN THE TONY AWARD-WINNING BEST MUSICAL COMEDY MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT A MUSICAL LOVINGLY RIPPED OFF FROM THE MOTION PICTURE MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL FROM THE ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY GRAHAM CHAPMAN, JOHN CLEESE, TERRY GILLIAM, ERIC IDLE, TERRY JONES, MICHAEL PALIN BEGINNING TUESDAY, JANUARY 9 ALEX BRIGHTMAN RETURNS TO THE ROLE HE ORIGINATED AT THE KENNEDY CENTER THEY JOIN PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED CHRISTOPHER FITZGERALD, JAMES MONROE IGLEHART, LESLIE RODRIGUEZ KRITZER, ETHAN SLATER, JIMMY SMAGULA, MICHAEL URIE, and NIK WALKER Performances Begin Tuesday, October 31, 2023 Official Opening Knight is Thursday, November 16, 2023 At Broadway's St. James Theatre For a Limited Engagement (probably) Book & Lyrics by ERIC IDLE Music by JOHN DU PREZ & ERIC IDLE Direction & Choreography by JOSH RHODES New York, NY (September 26, 2023) – The court of the St. James Theatre is complete! Taran Killam ("Saturday Night Live") will join the cast of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical comedy Monty Python's SPAMALOT as Sir Lancelot through Sunday, January 7, 2024. When Killam completes his knightly duties, Tony Award Nominee Alex Brightman (The Shark Is Broken, Beetlejuice) will return to the role he originated in the sold-out Kennedy Center run, taking his place at the roundtable beginning Tuesday, January 9, 2024. SPAMALOT will also feature the previously announced, Tony Award nominee Christopher Fitzgerald (Waitress) as Patsy, Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Hamilton) as King Arthur, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer (Beetlejuice) as The Lady of the Lake, Tony Award nominee Ethan Slater (SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical) as The Historian/Prince Herbert, Jimmy Smagula (Billy Elliot) as Sir Bedevere, Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie ("Shrinking," Torch Song) as Sir Robin and Nik Walker (Hamilton) as Sir Galahad. Iglehart, Kritzer, Smagula, Urie and Walker will be reprising their roles from the record-breaking sold-out run at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Performances begin Tuesday, October 31, 2023, and the official opening knight is Thursday, November 16, 2023 at Broadway's St. James Theatre (246 West 44th Street). The musical, which first galloped onto Broadway in 2005, features a book & lyrics by Eric Idle and music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle. The original Broadway production was nominated for fourteen Tony Awards and won three, including Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical (Mike Nichols) and Best Featured Actress (Sara Ramirez as The Lady of the Lake) and featured choreography by Casey Nicholaw. Josh Rhodes (Bright Star, Cinderella) will return from the Kennedy Center production to direct and choreograph on Broadway. Jeffrey Finn, Vice President & Executive Producer of Theater and Artistic Director, Broadway Center Stage at The Kennedy Center serves as lead producer. Ensemble casting will be announced shortly. The creative team also includes scenic and projection design by Paul Tate dePoo III, costume design by Jen Caprio, lighting design by Cory Pattak, sound design by Kai Harada & Haley Parcher, wig design by Tom Watson and music direction by John Bell. Casting is by JZ Casting, Matthew Lacey will serve as the Production Stage Manager and RCI Theatricals will serve as General Manager. Lovingly ripped from the film classic, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, SPAMALOT has everything that makes a great knight at the theatre, from flying cows to killer rabbits, British royalty to French taunters, dancing girls, rubbery shrubbery, and of course, the lady of the lake. SPAMALOT features well-known song titles such as "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life," "The Song That Goes Like This," "Find Your Grail" and more that have become beloved classics in the musical theatre canon. To continue your quest to purchase tickets, please visit SpamalotTheMusical.com. Social media's not dead yet, find your grail at: X: @SpamalotBway Facebook: @SpamalotBway Instagram: @SpamalotBway TikTok: @SpamalotBway BIOS TARAN KILLAM (Sir Lancelot – through January 7, 2023) Throughout the course of his career, Taran Killam has established himself as one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. Perhaps best-known for his scene-stealing work on "Saturday Night Live" for six seasons, Taran extended his talents even further in 2017 as he made both his Broadway and feature directorial debuts. Taran has been seen on stage as "King George III" in Lin-Manuel Miranda's award-winning Broadway hit Hamilton at Richard Rogers Theater. Although Hamilton was Taran's Broadway debut, he has appeared off-Broadway in the City Center Encores! presentation of Little Shop of Horrors as Orin Scrivello, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Ellen Greene in 2015. Taran can be seen in Universal Picture's Night School opposite Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, directed by Malcolm D. Lee. In addition, Taran wrote, directed, and starred in the action-comedy Why We're Killing Gunter opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cobie Smulders, and Bobby Moynihan, released in 2017. He also joined J.K. Simmons, Analeigh Tipton, and Emile Hirsch in the comedy All Nighter, which was released in 2017. Taran's previous feature film credits include 12 Years a Slave, The Heat, Grown Ups 2, My Best Friend's Girl, Big Fat Liar, Just Married, Epic Movie and Brother Nature, which he co-wrote with Mikey Day. On the television side, Taran was a series regular on "Saturday Night Live" for six seasons. He has also appeared on "How I Met Your Mother," "Community," "Scrubs," "New Girl," "Drunk History," "MADtv," and the Disney Channel Original Movie Stuck in the Suburbs. Taran voiced the lead in the PBS series, "Nature Cat," as well as multiple characters in the Weinstein Company's animated film, Underdogs. Taran was seen in the lead role of the ABC/20th ½ hour comedy, "Single Parents," and in Ryan Murphy's "American Crime Story: Impeachment" as Steve Jones, opposite Annaleigh Ashford. Taran was seen on NBC's "Mr. Mayor" opposite Ted Danson and will soon be seen in The River Wild for Universal 1440 Entertainment. Originally from Culver City and Big Bear Lake, California, Taran graduated from Los Angeles High School for the Arts and attended UCLA in 2000. ALEX BRIGHTMAN (Sir Lancelot – Beginning January 9, 2023) garnered Tony and Drama League Award Nominations for his critically acclaimed, titular performance as "Beetlejuice" in Alex Timbers' cult hit Broadway musical Beetlejuice, a role which he reprised when the show reopened on Broadway, post-pandemic. Ben Brantley of The New York Times lauded Alex as "the best reason" to see the show and David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter deemed it "impossible to deny [his] virtuosic showmanship." He previously received Best Actor in a Musical Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award, and Astaire Award Nominations for his portrayal of Dewey Finn in Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical School of Rock, which David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter hailed "a star-making performance." He is currently starring as Richard Dreyfuss in Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon's Broadway transfer of The Shark is Broken. The play, directed by Olivier Award-Winner Guy Masterson, follows the behind-the-scenes hilarity and drama during the making of Spielberg's Jaws. Alex also recently starred in the Kennedy Center's acclaimed production of Spamalot, directed by Josh Rhodes. He made his Broadway debut in James Gardiner and Nick Blaemire's Glory Days, and also appeared on Broadway in Wicked, Big Fish WICKED, and Matilda. Off-Broadway he starred in New York City Center Encores!'s production of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, and in The Old Globe's world premiere musical, Nobody Loves You. Alex was nominated for a 2018 Legacy Award by the Legionnaires of Laughter for Best Comedy Musical / Theatrical Male Actor. On television, Alex had a pivotal arc on the final season of NBC's long-running series "The Blacklist" opposite James Spader. He lent his voice to Pugsley in Netflix's "Dead End: Paranormal Park," to Robo Fizz and Fizzarolli in Youtube's "Helluva Boss" and reprised his role of Beetlejuice for DC Entertainment's "Teen Titans Go!" His other television credits include IFC's "Documentary Now!" opposite John Mulaney, Richard Kind, and Taran Killam, Showtime's "Smilf," Paramount+'s "The Good Fight" opposite Christine Baranski, NBC's "Law & Order: SVU" opposite Mariska Harigitay and CBS's "Blue Bloods." On film, Alex appeared in Billy Crystal's Here Today and in the horror comedy Red Hook opposite Terrence Mann. He will next be seen in the Netflix feature The Union opposite Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry, and JK Simmons. Alex has also established himself as a writer. He and his writing partner, Drew Gasparini, premiered their first project, a new musical thriller called Make Me Bad at the Bloomington Playwrights Project in 2013. Their next production was the one-man show Everything in its Place: The Life and Slimes of Marc Summer, starring Marc Summers. The duo is currently developing several other projects, including a musical adaptation of The Whipping Boy, based on the Newbery medal-winning children's book and a musical adaptation of Universal's It's Kind of a Funny Story, which has been workshopped at Feinstein's/54 Below, Second Stage and Paper Mill Playhouse. On his own, Alex is developing two plays – Everything is Fine, which Cynthia Nixon is attached to direct, and We Left It Here. He has also sold multiple television pilots – one to NBC/Universal Television with Jeffrey Seller and another to FX/20th Television with Melvin Mar. # # # |
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