Stage and Screen actor and singer Damon Kirsche is a leading interpreter of Traditional Popular Song and American Songbook standards from the Golden Age of Broadway and Hollywood.
Each of Arthur's knights plays a host of characters in Monty Python's SPAMALOT and I delight in each, from the filth-gathering Dennis (transformed into the fair Galahad), to the maniacal Black Knight, to the swamp-dwelling King (father to the lyrical Prince Herbert). The backstage and on-stage challenges are many, but the delight of celebrating the best of Python humor with a live audience is a real thrill. Our invited dress last night was just a taste: we open tonight!
UPDATE: MTWichita's SPAMALOT receives a winning review from Bob Curtright of The Wichita Eagle:
"It sprawls and soars, dances and prances, charms and sometimes alarms sensitive souls with its brash, rude irreverence as Music Theatre of Wichita successfully finds its comic Holy Grail with “Monty Python’s Spamalot.... Damon Kirsche (last year’s “9 to 5”) uses his big voice to great effect as Sir Galahad — Dennis Galahad, that is — for a Webber-esque duet, “The Song That Goes Like This,” with the Lady of the Lake, who turns him from a muddy peasant into a blow-dried blond surfer-knight. Kirsche, who has proved himself a romantic lead before (coincidentally as Arthur in 2009’s “Camelot” as well as Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady”), shows he also has a ridiculously silly comic side."
I next appear as "Galahad" in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical SPAMALOT, a witty and raucous re-telling of the legend of King Arthur, “lovingly ripped off” from the film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” A team of brilliant comic actors will wring every laugh from this outrageously silly extravaganza. Get your coconuts ready!
A new musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
From the original screenplay by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Original Broadway Production produced by Boyett Ostar Productions, The Shubert Organization, Arielle Tepper Madover, Stephanie McClelland/Lawrence Horowitz, Elan V McAllister/Allan S. Gordon, Independent Producers Network, Roy Furman, GRS Associates, Jam Theatricals, TGA Entertainment, Live Nation
Here's a "Sneek Peek" of the cast and rehearsal process:
Showtimes: 8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday Tickets: Call 316-265-3107. For more information, visit: www.mtwichita.org. MTWichita Premiere / Rated PG-13
>> View more photos and Bob Curtright's interview with MTWichita's creative team and cast at The Wichita Eagle. <<
Damon Kirsche and Jennie Greenberry star in Music Theatre of Wichita's "Monty Python's SPAMALOT." Photo: Jaime Green/The Wichita Eagle
Music Theatre of Wichita opens its 2013 season with "Monty Python's SPAMALOT." Photo: Jaime Green/The Wichita Eagle.
Round 2 in New York
Round 3 in Washington, DC
