Wait Till Bigus Dickus Hears of This

Continuing his quest to -- depending how you look at it -- keep alive the flame of Monty Python / degrade the memory of everything beautiful and subversive about Monty Python by turning it into a fucking musical, Eric Idle will unleash "Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)" tomorrow night at the Hollywood Bowl. It's billed as a concert oratorio combining Handel's "Messiah" and the best bits from Monty Python's Life of Brian -- arguably one of the greatest movies about religion ever made, and certainly the funniest.

I have some serious reservations about whether one of the world's few perfect films truly needs to be reimagined as a concert piece, which are only slightly offset by the moderate self-loathing I feel for wanting to attend anyway. (For what it's worth, a recent Washington Post review of the D.C. performance was positively glowing, but then again this is from the same paper that called The Dark Knight "a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war.")



WHERE: The Hollywood Bowl
WHEN: This Friday, August 1st at 8:30pm
COST: $10 - $110, depending upon seating / wallet size
MORE INFO: Hollywood Bowl Website