“Lovingly ripped off” from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this musical comedy retells the legendary tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

I’d love to have been in the room when Eric Idle ran this one by the other Python guys. It’s an ok show that has interesting underpinning decisions

If you were going to adapt maybe the most quotable movie ever made to the stage, how much do you play it straight versus relying on the audience knowing it to subvert their expectations? Where they landed feels like sort of a reverse jukebox musical - all the book scenes are just quoting the movie in the familiar intonations, but there are some surprises in the songs

This kind of populist commercialism feels decidedly unPythonlike and I can’t imagine most of those guys, who made their bones doing transgressive TV comedy, being especially interested in it. It is telling that only Eric Idle is directly credited as writer. Cleese would never

Anyway I thought it was a reasonably fun crowd pleaser that lost some steam in the second act. The consequence of being on this side of the faithfulness decision is that sometimes they lean too much on the original material and it can grind a little. But if you went the other way you would probably lose more of the audience ¯_(ツ)_/¯