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...place to be seen was on the stage of Cambridge's Footlights Club. When Cleese and Chapman entered the Footlights around 1960, it had a glittering comic cachet. That was due largely to Peter Cook, who was a god to the younger members, his monologues passed down by oral tradition in the pre-tape era. David Frost, a Footlights secretary, would soon launch himself as a TV comedy mogul with That Was the Week That Was and The Frost Report, for which he drew on Oxbridge grads, including all five British Pythons, as writers and performers. (Later Footlighters included Emma...
...Idle's charisma and social ease were ever a source of wonder to other Pythons. "I first saw Eric on stage in Edinburgh doing a revue," Jones recalls in the book. "I just remember seeing this very beautiful young man on stage, with very blue eyes." Palin adds that "Eric has always been a very gregarious character as long as I've known him. He was always very popular with loads of friends around him." (It was Idle who hooked up with Harrison, convincing the ex-Beatle to give his implicit blessing to the Rutles parody by appearing briefly...
...Idle has said that he was encouraged to musicalize MP&HG after seeing Mel Brooks' stage version of The Producers. The was the show that reminded Broadway that its strong suit was musical comedy, and not the dour Les Miz and Phantom and Sondheims and the rest of the sing-song drama lot. In Spamalot, as in The Producers, everything is absolutely spot-on and studiously ingratiating. Idle's show isn't desperate to please, really; rather, it's confident that everything it does will provide pleasure...
...whole thing has been reconfigured for a Vegas extravaganza - it'll feel right at home in Wynn Las Vegas, especially when King Arthur warns, "Remember, gentlemen: what happens in Camelot, stays in Camelot" - or, who'd have imagined it?, a cruise show. An audience member is brought on stage; confetti festoons the crowd; there's everything but a conga line out of the theater...
Prudent onlookers might derisively call the Hasty Pudding Theatricals—the University’s traditional source for male drag-centered dramatic art—a freak show. This year, they’d be right. The Pudding selected yesterday the script for its 159th annual stage production, which will open Feb. 23. The burlesque comedy, tentatively titled “The Tent Commandments,” follows a European big-top circus and its semi-occult side show. The peace among the attractions collapses, however, when it’s decreed that only one tent may be pitched...