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Monty Python's Spamalot

* Original Cast Recording * Decca Broadway

Does the cast album to the smash Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot count as a new Python recording? Not exactly, Flying Circus-philes, despite lyricist lyr·i·cist  
n.
A writer of song lyrics. Also called lyrist.

Noun 1. lyricist - a person who writes the words for songs
lyrist
 and cocomposer Eric Idle's spirited alchemic transfer of Monty Python and the Holy Grail into singing, dancing theater. These aren't so much songs as tuneful bits of silliness--probably best enjoyed live as the connective tissue in the larger organism of a joke-filled revue. Coming off best on CD, though, are the Andrew Lloyd Webber Noun 1. Andrew Lloyd Webber - English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948)
Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton, Lloyd Webber
 parody "The Song That Goes Like This," given bombastic bounce by Sara Ramirez, and the David Hyde Pierce David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is a Screen Actors Guild, Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for his co-starring role as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier alongside Kelsey Grammer.  number "You Won't Succeed on Broadway," a post-Producers ode to the Great White Way that feels like a mind meld between Python wit and Mel Brooksian shtick shtick also schtick or shtik  
n. Slang
1. A characteristic attribute, talent, or trait that is helpful in securing recognition or attention:
.
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Title Annotation:Monty Python's Spamalot
Author:Abele, Robert
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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Date:Jun 21, 2005
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