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Monty Python’s Spamalot – A Laugh Riot
This rib tickling, rip-roaring rip-off of the comic film of 1975, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is the most hilarious musical on Broadway running to hysterical packed houses since its opening night on March 17, 2005. It won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2005 and has been receiving rave reviews from critics all over. The Sunday Times says that it “raises silliness to an art form” and it has been hailed as the “no holds barred smash hit” by The New Yorker.
Monty Python is not one person, but a group of comedians and writers, five British and one American, who are famous for their comedy television show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which ran from 1969 to 1974. They are popular for their spoofs and satires against the British snobbish ruling class as well as European history. The members of Monty Python are John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and the late Graham Chapman.
The musical Monty Python’s Spamalot is based on the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table and their quest for the Holy Grail. The show has hilarious situations and features beautiful showgirls, dancing men in tights, killer rabbits with big pointy teeth, a legless Knight and flatulent Frenchmen. It guarantees to make you fall off your seats with laughter. The play pokes fun at the Broadway musical formula and also makes a humorous commentary on historical events. It leaves no scope for serious thought or sorrow of any kind, only roaring laughter. You can imagine the hilarity of the play just by the names of some of the characters, such as Not Dead Fred and Sir Not Appearing!
Miriam Colon – The Founder of Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
Born on August 20, 1936 in the city of Ponce in Puerto Rico, Miriam Colon is a famous Puerto Rican actress who established and served as the director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City, in the United States of America.
Although born in Ponce, Colon grew up in Barrio Obrero while living in a “Residencial Las Casas”, a public housing project in Puerto Rico, following her mother’s divorce. She studied at Ramon Baldorioty de Castro High School located in the Old San Juan and participated actively in various stage plays in her school. Marcos Colon , her first teacher in drama, believed that the young Miriam is very talented and helped her to get permission in observing the students from the Drama Department of the University of Puerto Rico.
During her high schools year, Colon did very well in her academics that she was awarded a scholarship at The Lee Strasburg Acting Studio Dramatic Workshop and Technical Institute both located in New York City.
It was in 1953 when Colon starred in her first film in Puerto Rico titled “Peloteros” opposite Ramon Rivera. A year after, she lived in New York City where she worked for a theater then landed an acting role in a soap opera “Guiding Light.” Soon after, she appeared in several TV shows such as “Bonanza,” “Gunsmoke,” “Will Travel,” and more.
Interworld Digital No Cost Solution for Theater Owners in India!
Now after some 110 years of movies, and 77 years after the first ‘talkies’, the movie industry is again caught in the winds of change: Cinema sans ‘film’ or celluloid — Digital Cinema!
Digital Cinema is the way movies are made and screened using digital technology — where ‘bits and bytes (strings of 1s and 0s) record, transmit and replay images’. In this format, a compact disc stores, transmits and retrieves an incredible quantity of information exactly as it was originally recorded – time after time. In addition, bytes of data can be manipulated easily on the computer to give a slew of desired effects – right from production and distribution, and finally to how theatres present the finished product! All with a simple flick of a button!
Indian Film industry ranks number one in the World with 1000+films a year of which 125-150 are Hindi, 600 from South (Tamil/ Malayalam/ Telugu and Kannada) and rest from other languages. Till today over 65000 movies are produced in India.
India is different market as no theater owner would like to invest money like Rs. 15 to 20 lac in existing setup until and unless it is proven that the solution offered is much more beneficial and cost effective than existing system. And just because of this fact the D-Cinema have not moved fast but as per our business plan we are confident that we will be able to digitize approx 1500 theaters in next 3 years. The growth in 2nd and 3rd year will be exponential.
