TODD Carty will play the role of Patsy when Spamalot comes to Wales Millennium Centre from August 23 until August 28.
The role famously requires the actor playing the part to bang two coconut halves together.
Todd appeared in the BBC TV show Grange Hill, as Tucker Jenkins for five years and which resulted in his very own spin off series, Tuckers Luck. He’s also been on a few other famous TV shows; he played Mark Fowler in EastEnders and some other bloke in The Bill. More recently he has reinvented himself as a director.
Hayley Tamaddon, best known for playing Delilah Dingle in Emmerdale will play the Lady of the Lake. Hayley won this year’s Dancing on Ice competition, gaining more than 80 per cent of the audience vote. The role of King Arthur will be played by James Gaddas. James is best known as Governor Grayling in ITV’s flagship show Bad Girls who’s evil antics kept an average of 9 million viewers gripped every week.
Monty Python’s Spamalot, has been described by one of its co-creators, Eric Idle, as ‘the most infectiously funny musical of the millennium’, Spamalot has been lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The result is a tongue in cheek, almost-new musical, with a book by Eric Idle and an entirely new score, (well, almost) created by Eric Idle and John Du Prez.
Du Prez composing additional music for Monty Python’s Life of Brian in 1978.
This began a long association with Eric Idle, leading eventually to their current writing partnership. He has scored more than 20 feature films including The Meaning of Life, A Private Function, A Fish Called Wanda, Once Bitten, UHF and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I, II and III. Other Python projects include the Contractual Obligation Album, Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl and The Fairly Incomplete & Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Song Book. He was musical director for Eric Idle’s two North American stage tours.
Audiences all around the world have been roaring with laughter since Monty Python’s Spamalot won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2005.
Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and features a bevy (or possibly a brace) of beautiful show girls not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people.
The show features fantastic tunes which are catchier than the plague: He Is Not Dead Yet, Knights of the Round Table, Find Your Grail and of course the Nation’s Favourite Comedy Song (Reader’s Digest Poll 2009) Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.
Everyone’s favourite Python Eric Idle will star as the voice of God – at least his voice will, he is too lazy to appear in person.
Spamalot is presented by Howard Panter for The Ambassador Theatre Group and Bill Kenwright. will be directed by Christopher Luscombe (if he can find the time) and designed by Hugh Durrant (if he can find the drawing board).
Jenny Arnold will choreograph an unlikely group of non-dancers; and Simon Beck will attempt to supervise the music.
For further information or to book tickets, contact the ticket office on 029 2063 6464 or visit the theatre’s website www.wmc.org.uk