First Three Drafts Binder

Eric Idle's binder containing drafts 1 - 3 of Spamalot, circa 2001-2003.

"As you see at the beginning it was spelled Spamelot.

The title comes from a song in the movie the Holy Grail composed by Graham Chapman and John Cleese – 'Knights of the Round Table.'

'We eat, ham and jam and spam a lot.'

So, I changed the title spelling.  

Oddly, we had a legal letter from a production of Camelot which was going into Broadway insisting we change the title. 

We told them to 'f off.'

That seemed to quieten them..." - Eric Idle