Idle also wrote the book and co-wrote the music and lyrics for the musical Monty Python's Spamalot, based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Idle wrote the lyrics and book for Spamalot, collaborating with John Du Prez on much of the music.

* 2005: Monty Python's Spamalot – Book by Eric Idle, music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle, lyrics by Eric Idle.

** Monty Python's Spamalot – John Du Prez ( music ) and Eric Idle ( music & lyrics )

" Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " is also featured in Eric Idle's Spamalot, a Broadway musical based upon Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and was sung by the rest of the Monty Python group at Graham Chapman's memorial service and at the Monty Python Live At Aspen special.

The oratorio, called Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy ), was commissioned to be part of the festival called Luminato in Toronto, Ontario, in June 2007, and was written / scored by Idle and John Du Prez, who also worked with Idle on Spamalot.

" Of Spamalot, Anderson opined that " Python was formed in reaction to exactly the kind of lazy comedy represented by Spamalot – what Michael Palin once described as the ' easy, catch-phrase reaction ' the members had all been forced to pander to in their previous writing jobs ".

In the Monty Python 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, " Sir Bedevere the Wise " is played by Terry Jones, and in the Broadway musical Spamalot, he was originally played by Steve Rosen.

* In the Monty Python-derived Broadway show Spamalot written by Eric Idle, there is a song called “ The Fisch Schlapping Song ”, sung by pseudo-Finnish people, before the historian abruptly ends the song.

In the play Spamalot based on the movie, the part was originally played by Hank Azaria.

At the time of his death, " Flying by Foy " was producing the flight effects for two Broadway-bound shows: Spamalot and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

It is the antagonist in a major setpiece battle, and makes a similar appearance in Spamalot, a musical inspired by the movie.

With the success of Eric Idle's musical retelling of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, called Spamalot, Idle announced that he would be giving Life of Brian a similar treatment.

In the musical Spamalot, the scene with the Black Knight was the most difficult to play on stage, according to Eric Idle.

** Monty Python's Spamalot – Eric Idle

In 2004, Ramirez was cast as the Lady of the Lake in the Eric Idle / John Du Prez musical Spamalot, based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

* 48th Grammy Awards-Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album-Winner with Eric Idle-Monty Python's Spamalot ( 2005 ).

* 59th Tony Award's-Best Original Score ( Music and / or Lyrics ) Written for the Theatre ( John Du Prez and Eric Idle ( Music ); Eric Idle ( Lyrics )) Nominee-Monty Python's Spamalot ( 2005 ).

Idle was a member of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python, a member of the Rutles on Saturday Night Live, and the author of the Broadway musical Spamalot.

In 2004, Idle created Spamalot, a musical comedy based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

He frequently returns to Sacramento as a music circus favorite in shows such as Guys and Dolls, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and Spamalot.

He acted as music arranger on the Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones films Monty Python's The Life of Brian ( 1979 ) and Time Bandits ( 1981 ), the latter starring Sean Connery, and he also co-wrote the music for the stage musical Spamalot, as well as the music and the intro theme of the British series Captain Star.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ) ( adapted in 2004 as the stage production Spamalot ) was a comedic adaptation.

The Knights appear in Spamalot, the 2005 Broadway musical " lovingly ripped off " from the film, with their first scene virtually unchanged.

He originated the role of King Arthur in the Broadway hit Monty Python's Spamalot.

In 2004, Curry began his role of King Arthur in Spamalot in Chicago.

Curry reprised this role in London's West End at the Palace Theatre, where Spamalot opened on 16 October 2006.

In 2004, the musical comedy Spamalot debuted in Chicago and opened in New York's Shubert Theatre on 14 February 2005.

Spamalot had mixed reactions from other Python members.

In Spamalot, the song " He is Not Yet Dead ( playoff )" is thematically similar.

* Christopher Sieber two-time Tony Award nominated actor ( Spamalot and Shrek the Musical ) is a 1988 graduate of Forest Lake High School.

Davison performed as King Arthur in the London production of Spamalot.

Monty Python's Spamalot played at the theatre from 2006 until January 2009, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert opened at the Palace in March 2009 and closed in December 2011.

Monty Python's Spamalot opened later in 2006 and ran until 2009.

At the request of Lloyd Webber, Kenwright brought his production of Whistle Down the Wind to the Palace Theatre, London in March 2006, where it played a limited run until August, filling the gap between the closure of another Lloyd Webber musical, The Woman in White and the opening of the Monty Python musical Spamalot.

In 2008 and 2009, he appeared as King Arthur in the national tour of Monty Python's Spamalot.

Collins ' Broadway credits include his 2008 role as King Arthur in Spamalot and prior appearances in Moonchildren, The Ritz, The Loves of Anatol, and No Sex Please, We're British ; Off Broadway he appeared opposite Sigourney Weaver in Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy, as Macduff to Christopher Walken's Macbeth at Lincoln Center, and as husband to Julie Andrews ( with whom he shares a birthday ) in the Stephen Sondheim revue, Putting It Together at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1993.

I mention these features of the book because they are inherent in the book's character and therefore must be mentioned.

The comic book series Cerebus The Aardvark ( created, written and illustrated by Dave Sim ) features an aardvark as its protagonist.

The book features Trump portraits of each of the elder Amberites.

* The children's book Dragons, Dragons by Eric Carle features an amphisbaena.

The superscription of the book is lengthier than most and contains two features.

Carol Meyers in her commentary on Exodus suggests that it is arguably the most important book in the bible, as it presents the defining features of Israel's identity: memories of a past marked by hardship and escape, a binding covenant with the God who chooses Israel, and the establishment of the life of the community and the guidelines for sustaining it.

* Philip K. Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle features a ( banned ) fictional work called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, which purports to describe how things might have transpired after World War II if the Allied side had won ( in the reality of the book, the Axis powers triumphed ).

The book features many low-budget obscurities and exploitation films such as Rat Pfink a Boo Boo, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, and the apparently lost Him.

That book again features the same dog pictured with the authors.

The first book of Lewis's Space Trilogy, a rare example of theological science fiction, it features a philologist named Ransom who arrives by accident on Mars ( called Malacandra by the natives ).

These reprint issues were sometimes augmented by exclusive features such as posters, stickers and, on a few occasions, recordings on flexi-disc, or comic book – formatted inserts reprinting material from the 1952 – 55 era.

In his book, de Bry often altered the poses and features of White ’ s figures to make them appear more European.

His book The Diamond Age follows a simpler plot but features " neo-Victorian " characters and employs Victorian-era literary conceits.

The 1996 pilot to the TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures also features Pellucidar, as well as the character Jana from the book Tarzan at the Earth's Core.

The book features a sudden force in which every cell phone user turns into a mindless killer.

The last page of each book features a freehand drawing mode, where the player can also insert stamps of characters shown previously in the game.

The thirty-third issue of this Mike Grell comic book features 23 pages of Aragonés ' art for a story called " Cave of the Half-Pints.

He said some such features could have been by-products of adaptive changes to other features, and that often features seemed non-adaptive because their function was unknown, as shown by his book on Fertilisation of Orchids that explained how their elaborate structures facilitated pollination by insects.

" The Interstellar Wars book features extensive notes on period Earth society, Vilani culture and values, and updated spaceship construction and combat rules.

His book A Natural History of Australia ( Academic Press, 1998 ) features 200 of his color photographs, 220 line drawings and maps, and over 500 references.

His latest book, Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2009 and features 60 b / w illustrations and 16 color plates.

During this period the magazine included lots of features such as the satirical comic strip Thrud the Barbarian and Dave Langford's " Critical Mass " book review column, as well as a comical advertising series " The Androx Diaries ", and always had cameos and full scenarios for a broad selection of the most popular games of the time, as well as a more rough and informal editorial style.

They may also add optional features, such as a guest book or commemorative wedding leaflets.