SPAMALOT Perth season announced!

SPAMALOT Perth season announced!

Drew Anthony Creative returns to its home base at Planet Royale in Northbridge following critically acclaimed seasons of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER at Melbourne’s Athenaeum Theatre and THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (with an all-WA cast) at Melbourne’s Athenaeum Theatre and Sydney’s State Theatre to present the hilarious musical comedy sensation MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT to Perth audiences.

MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT is ‘lovingly ripped off from the motion picture MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL’ and features an all-WA cast with a special onscreen appearance by MONTY PYTHON legend Eric Idle himself, playing the role of ‘God’.

May 20 – June 7, 2026
Planet Royale – 12 Lake Street, Northbridge
Tickets now on sale!

Produced and directed by Drew Anthony
Choreographed by Suzi & Jamie Rolton
Production designed by Drew Anthony and Aquixel
Associate Producer Rachel Burgess
Tickets from Ticketmaster

Producer/Director Drew Anthony says: “I’m excited to bring MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT to Perth audiences as my first production in Perth for 2026. The show is a hilarious retelling of the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table and a rollicking celebration of all things Monty Python bursting with entertaining songs, absurd humour and zany characters. This production features beautiful show girls, village idiots, cows, killer rabbits and French People and in a ‘Spamalot world-first’ the infamous Black Knight ‘will have all four limbs removed at every performance’. J I look forward to welcoming Perth audiences to SPAMALOT in May/June”.

Drew Anthony began his career onstage before extending to producing, directing, choreography, casting, production and writing for theatre, TV, concerts, events, festivals and ceremonies. He specialises in theatre productions and large-scale events and recently produced and directed productions of Saturday Night Fever and The Diary of Anne Frank in Melbourne and Sydney with Little Shop of Horrors, Footloose, The Wedding Singer, Saturday Night Fever, A Chorus Line, Strictly Ballroom, Chicago – A Musical Vaudeville, and Grease at Planet Royale. In recent years he completed positions as Director and Choreographer for the critically acclaimed Crown Theatre production of The Boy From Oz, Head of Staging and Choreography for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, Associate Artistic Director/Producer of White Night Melbourne and White Night Ballarat and Creative Director for Kaleidoscope – Perth’s light and illumination festival. He wrote and directed the award-winning cabaret parody Your Village Peeps for Fringe World 2022.

Drew held senior creative positions for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010, Asian Games Doha 2006, Arab Games Doha 2011 (and Director of Choreography), Rugby World Cup NZ 2011, NRL State of Origin, the World Handball Championship in Doha, Qatar and the Flag Handover Ceremony at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. He was the casting director for the ABC3 TV series Blue Zoo and was the Associate Director/Producer for the Australian 2013 national tour of Hot Shoe Shuffle. He also directed the Crusty Demons Thirst for Destruction Arena Tour and the Gala Opening of the Anti Doping Lab in Doha, Qatar.

Drew directed Olivia Newton-John & Friends in Concert at Sydney’s State Theatre, the Sony IFA world trade fair in Berlin Germany, A Musical Send Off for the Australian Paralympic Team (Beijing), choreographed the world premiere of John Williamson’s Quambatook – the Australian folk musical and directed Disney’s High School Musical. Prior to that he choreographed on and performed in the animated feature film Happy Feet, directed Carlotta’s Kings Cross at the Big Top, Luna Park and choreographed the Australian premiere of the Olivier Award winning musical Jolson, the world premiere of the West End musical Jailhouse Rock and Opera Australia’s acclaimed production of Orpheus in the Underworld. In 2002 he toured the country (33 cities!) as Associate Director /Choreographer/Producer and star of Hot Shoe Shuffle.

Drew has worked as either Resident Director or Choreographer on the Australian National Tours of Singin’ in the Rain, Buddy – The Musical, Hairspray, Pirates of Penzance, Me and My Girl, Jolson (Mo Award Nomination), 42nd Street, Red Hot and Rhonda (Burchmore), Rachael Beck’s Young Judy, and the USA and UK tours of Hot Shoe Shuffle and served for a period as Managing Director of Australia’s foremost studio for the performing arts Brent Street.

As a younger man Drew performed with the Queensland Ballet Company, the Australian Youth Ballet Company and in the Australian and International productions of Cats, 42nd Street, Rasputin, Hot Shoe Shuffle, Me and My Girl, Sondheim’s Puttin’ in Together. He appeared regularly on the Midday Show, Good Morning Australia and was a band member of Australia’s notorious swing bands Pardon Me Boys and The Fabulous Rhythm Boys.

Drew was the World Tap Champion in 1984.

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