WTTW11 to Offer Tickets for SPAMALOT

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WTTW11 to Offer Tickets for SPAMALOT: "Press ReleaseSource: WTTW11

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WTTW11 to Offer Tickets for SPAMALOT
Wednesday August 4, 12:30 pm ET
Exclusive Pre-Broadway Engagement for Monty Python Musical
Special WTTW11 Member Night on December 28


CHICAGO, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- On the evening of Thursday, August 12, as part of its membership drive, WTTW11 will offer individual tickets for the upcoming pre-Broadway engagement of the new musical MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT, at Broadway In Chicago's Shubert Theatre.
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WTTW11 will make a limited number of tickets available during its pledge drive on August 12 to a special WTTW11 Night at SPAMALOT on December 28. The tickets will be offered during an airing of Broadway's Lost Treasures beginning at 7:30 p.m., and this will be one of the very few opportunities for audience members to secure individual tickets prior to September 13, when they go on sale to the general public.

SPAMALOT begins performances at the Shubert Theatre, 22 W. Monroe, on December 21, and plays through January 16. As was the case with The Producers (the new Mel Brooks musical), this is a limited engagement, and the only pre-Broadway tryout for this production, which must start New York previews on February 7 with a scheduled opening at Broadway's Shubert Theatre on March 10.

Directed by Mike Nichols, SPAMALOT features a book by Eric Idle, based on the screenplay of Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Monty Python creators Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, with an entirely new score featuring music and lyrics by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, along with three songs from the 1975 film. SPAMALOT will star Emmy Award-winner David Hyde Pierce (Sir Robin) who is best known from television's Frasier; two time Tony Award-nominee Tim Curry (King Arthur), who rose to international fame with the Broadway hit The Rocky Horror Show and subsequent film Rocky Horror Picture Show; and Hank Azaria (Sir Lancelot), Emmy Award-winner for The Simpsons and star of television shows and films. Additional casting will be announced shortly.

Broadway's Lost Treasures features rare highlights from past Tony Awards ceremonies, and includes musical numbers from Anything Goes, Sweet Charity, Mame, The Man of LaMancha, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Guys and Dolls, LaCage Aux Folles, Les Miserables, Carousel and more. Performers featured include Angela Lansbury, Gregory Hines, Jerry Orbach, Nathan Lane, Chita Rivera and a host of others.

Now its fifth decade, WTTW11 reaches 4,000,000 viewers a month over four states and enjoys the largest public television audience in the nation. It is the most-watched television station in Chicago by children aged 2-11.




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