Monty Python Together Again

Monty Python will celebrate its Ruby Jubilee (that's 40th anniversary to you and me) later this year on stage at London's infamous Royal Albert Hall, with the European premiere of Eric Idle and John Du Prez’s "Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)" on October 23.
Starring Idle (baritonish) with guest appearances from fellow Pythons Michael Palin, Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam and Carol Cleveland & Neil Innes, Not The Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy), will feature William Ferguson (Brian) Shannon Mercer (Judith), Rosalind Plowright (Mandy), Christopher Purves (Reg) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Prez.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus first aired on the BBC on October 5, 1969. The television series, originally broadcast from 1969 to 1974, was conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. After the immense popularity of the television series, Monty Python continued its global domination with three films, stage tours, numerous albums, books and a stage musical, launching the members to individual stardom.
Idle said: “It is rare you get to be silly on a mass scale. This work was commissioned by the Toronto Luminato Festival in 2007 where it was conducted by my cousin Peter Oundjian with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. It was performed later that year in Australia and New Zealand, including two sell-out nights at The Sydney Opera House, and last year at the Wolf Trap to 7,000 with the Washington Symphony, in Houston with the Houston Symphony, culminating in two nights at The Hollywood Bowl (to 19,000 people) with the LA Philharmonic and fireworks. It tells the tragic tale of Mandy, impregnated by a Roman soldier, giving birth to Brian, a reluctant revolutionary who falls in love with Judith, gets mistaken for a Messiah and is condemned to death. It ranges in reference from Handel, through a naughty Mozart duet, to the Festival of Nine Carols, Bob Dylan, and the classic finale Always Look On The Bright Side of Life.”
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Happy Python-ing!