Acting Arthur; Films, Plays Love Legend of Camelot

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › April 27, 2008

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Odds Bodkins!

Grab your coconut shells and your "Phrasebook of French Taunts," because "Spamalot" is coming to Milwaukee on Tuesday.

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Acting Arthur; Films, Plays Love Legend of Camelot

More fun than a phalanx of flagellants, "Spamalot" lovingly invites theater audiences to savor all the flavors of King Arthur's legend, choke with laughter on them and then cough them out after performing the Heimlich maneuver on each other.

But forsooth, "Spamalot" is merely the latest in a long line of riffs on King Arthur and his court.

For instance, in 1471 English author Thomas Mallory wrote "Le Morte d'Arthur," an epic he pe...

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