First Three Drafts Binder
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
