ERIC IDLE
(
Book, lyrics, and music
) has multi-
hyphenated his way through life assiduously
avoiding a proper job, from a writer and actor in
the legendary
Monty Python
TV series and movies,
to the creator and director of
The Rutles
, the pre-
fab four, whose legend will last a lunchtime. He
has appeared on stage in drag singing rude songs
at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl as well
as performing in two highly successful tours,
Eric
Idle Exploits Monty Python
(2000) and
The Greedy
Bastard Tour
(2003), for which he journeyed
15,000 miles across North America in a bus.
His
Greedy Bastard Diary
of that tour is published
by Harper Collins. His play
Pass the Butler
ran
for five months in London’s West End. He has
written two novels,
Hello Sailor
and
The Road to
Mars
, a children’s book,
The Quite Remarkable
Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat
, and a
bedside companion,
The Rutland Dirty Weekend
Book
.
JOHN DU PREZ
(
Music
) a Trevelyan Scholar
at Christ Church, Oxford, and Associate of
the Royal College of Music, entered the film
industry in 1978 composing additional music
for Monty Python’s
Life of Brian
. This began a
long association with Eric Idle, leading eventually
to their current writing partnership. He has
scored more than 20 feature films including
The
Meaning of Life
,
A Private Function, A Fish Called
Wanda, Once Bitten, UHF
and
Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles I, II,
and
III
. Other Python projects
include the
Contractual Obligation Album
,
Monty
Python at the Hollywood Bowl
and
The Fairly
Incomplete & Rather Badly Illustrated Monty
Python Song Book
. He was musical director for
Eric Idle’s two North American stage tours,
Eric
Idle Exploits Monty Python
(2000) and
The Greedy
Bastard Tour
(2003).
Spamalot
was his Broadway
debut.
MONTY PYTHON
Is he God or Godot, an
agent of the devil or an agent of the William
Morris Agency, or is he, as some have argued, a
fictitious character invented in 1969 by Graham
Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle,
Terry Jones, and Michael Palin in a desperate
attempt to find a title for their rather silly TV
show? Whatever the truth, he is the eponymous
impresario who fronts “The Flying Circus,”
The Holy Grail
,
The Life of Brian, The Meaning
of Life, And Now for Something Completely
Different
and who appeared Live at Drury Lane,
City Center and the Hollywood Bowl. He has
fronted numerous books including
The Big Red
Book
and the
Papperbok
as well as many CDs,
DVDs and matching ties and handkerchiefs. He
is currently in retirement in an old jokes home
near Dover, anxiously awaiting Nighthood and
a Knightnurse.
Spamalot
was his first Broadway
show. Further details:
MIKE ISAACSON
(
Executive Producer
) is
thrilled you are here tonight. Last summer,
Isaacson became the third Executive Producer in
The Muny’s 95-year history. After his first season,
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch named Isaacson
“Theatre Artist of the Year,” writing that “Staging
one impressive production after another, he made
The Muny simultaneously hip and – believe it
– important to our community’s cultural life.”
Isaacson also co-heads Fox Theatricals with
Kristin Caskey, and they have produced more
than 20 Broadway musicals and plays, national
tours, off-Broadway plays, and London shows.
Last season on Broadway they produced
Grace
at
The Cort Theatre, starring Michael Shannon and
Ed Asner, and
Bring It On – The Musical
at The St.
James Theatre.
Bring It On
received a 2013 Tony
nomination for Best Musical. Other highlights
include
Red
(2010 Tony Award, Best Play);
Legally
Blonde: the Musical
(2011 Olivier Award, Best
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