Severance Middle School Drama Club to present Monty Python’s ‘Spamalot Young@Part’

By ANNE DELANEY

The Severance Middle School Drama Club will perform Monty Python’s “Spamalot Young@Part” beginning Thursday at the Severance High School auditorium in

Severance

The show schedule is 6 p m Thursday & Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday The doors open 30 minutes before show time

Tickets are $5 for students and senior citizens (65 and up) and $7 for adults Tickets are available at the door Cash and credit cards will be accepted.

School and drama club director, is directing the show

“Spamalot Young@Part” is the authorized 60-minute edition of the award-winning Broadway musical comedy “Spamalot,” but reworked for elementary, middle school and youth theaters, according to Theatrical Rights Worldwide. Theatrical Rights Worldwide is a plays and musicals licensing company

“Young@Part” musicals are made for younger actors, with song keys changed where needed, and songs and scenes edited for time and content, according to the Theatrical Rights Worldwide website

The middle school adaptation retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

On Broadway, “Spamalot” won three Tony Awards in 2005 including for best musical The show was “lovingly ripped off” from the 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail ”