📚 Eric Idle Tells All in ‘The Spamalot Diaries’ (AARP Article)

[Winter2024]

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Monty Python’s Eric Idle Tells All About ‘Spamalot,’ George Harrison, Mike Nichols and Life at 81.

‘The Spamalot Diaries’ is a memoir as entertaining as the Broadway musical smash.

By Tim Appelo, AARP. Published October 08, 2024.

When Eric Idle, 81, was packing up to move recently (an experience he calls “Downsize Abbey”), he found a notebook chronicling the years-long creation of his and John Du Prez’s musical Spamalot, a hit on Broadway in 2004 and again in 2023. That notebook led to The Spamalot Diaries (Oct. 8), a ripping read that feels like a ride on a scary showbiz roller coaster, and an invitation to a movable feast of the elite in the celebrity fast lane.

It’s also a fascinating self-portrait of Idle, struggling for creative independence from his Python troupe mates, whose squabblesome personalities correspond to the knights they played in Monty Python and the Holy Grail — their 1975 film that Idle magically transformed into Spamalot.

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/books/info-2024/eric-idle-the-spamalot-diaries-interview.html