Calling all Monty Python fans -- Dave Eggers has a lengthy piece in The New Yorker on Eric Idle and his preparations to bring Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Broadway as a new musical "Spamalot." Previews are to open tonight in Chicago, with its Broadway opening scheduled for February.

Eggers offers more a retrospective on the Pythons, and a bit of what-they've-been-up-to since they went their merry ways. Not really a preview of "Spamalot," though he does sketch a few moments at the first read through with the cast, which includes Hank Azaria (“The Simpsons” and “Huff”), Tim Curry (“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”), and David Hyde Pierce (co-star of “Frasier”).

Mike Nichols, who directs (!), has my favorite line, trying to explain how they'll translate the movie to stage:

"O.K., you know how, in the movie, there’s a cow that flies out of a castle and lands on a page? Well, in the musical, the cow has a singing part.”

Next year, "Fafblog! The Musical" Yessss!