Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?


I had a spot of good luck this month and got my hands on a single ticket to Monty Python's Spamalot. I remember the cult like following it had on the NYU campus and the many laughs and good times we shared. I was apprehensive about a broadway version of the classic -- but was interested in seeing it reinvented for the stage. After it won the Tony, getting one's hands on tickets has become increasingly difficult -- there is almost a 5 or 6 month gap before tickets are available from time of ordering. So when presented the opportunity -- I jumped on it. It was just what the doctor ordered -- killer rabbits and all.




Here is a link to the full script of the Holy Grail http://www.rit.edu/~smo4215/monty.htm

GUARD #1: Halt! Who goes there?
ARTHUR: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle
of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons,
sovereign of all England!
GUARD #1: Pull the other one!
ARTHUR: I am. And this my trusty servant Patsy. We have
ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights
who will join me in my court at Camelot. I must speak with your
lord and master.
GUARD #1: What, ridden on a horse?
ARTHUR: Yes!
GUARD #1: You're using coconuts!
ARTHUR: What?
GUARD #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're
bangin' 'em together.
ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered
this land, through the kingdom of Mercea, through--
GUARD #1: Where'd you get the coconut?
ARTHUR: We found them.
GUARD #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical!
ARTHUR: What do you mean?
GUARD #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house
martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these
are not strangers to our land.
GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried.

It was such a feel good experience and I can still hear the audience singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life ..."

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