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Monty Python's classic British send-up is revived to moderately entertaining measure.

Monty Python's Spamalot musical returns to Broadway doesn't really do anything new, but there's still plenty of silly fun to be had here.

Broadway's new 'Spamalot' updates the Monty Python musical without taking away its eternally funny elements.

Back in the 1970s, the British comedy troupe Monty Python would often dryly announce, “and now for something completely different.” Well, not much is different about the revival of “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” the musical that’s based on their 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” that opened Thursday night at the St. James Theatre. It’s more or less the same as it was when it premiered 18 years ago, only not as special or exciting.

In the first Broadway revival of the Monty Python musical, the old bits are verbatim but the clowns are running the circus.

‘Spamalot’ returns to Broadway, and the revival of Eric Idle and John Du Prez’s Monty Python musical is a big, fat, raspberry-blowing bait and switch. And that’s a good thing.