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Article: 'SPAMALOT'\ MONTY PYTHON SPOOF'S 14 NODS LEAD PACK.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2005
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"Spamalot," the musical comedy billed as "lovingly ripped off" from the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," won 14 Tony nominations Tuesday in the race for Broadway's top honor. "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," another musical based on a film, and "The Light in the Piazza," a musical with a score by the grandson of Broadway great Richard Rodgers, each received 11 nominations.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony at Radio City Music Hall on June 5.
"Doubt," John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale about suspected child abuse at a Catholic school in 1964, led in the nonmusical play categories with eight nominations, followed by Martin ...