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Eric Idle Eric Idle And John Cleese Eric Idle and John Cleese were photographed as John Cleese & Eric Idle: Together Again At Last…For The Very First Time at The Venetian Theater at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada the other night. Photos By: Erik Kabik Photography/ MediaPunch

Eric Idle The Collegiate Chorale presents the New York City premiere of Eric Idle and John Du Prez's Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) at Carnegie Hall, December 15-16, 2014 at 8pm. Tickets start at $30 and are available at www.carnegiehall.org , by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800, or at the Box Office at 57th and Seventh. From the creators for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot, Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) is a comic oratorio based on Monty Python's movie The Life of Brian. Described by Eric Idle as "Baroque-N-Roll," Not The Messiah features a lively pastiche of musical styles ranging from pop, country, and Broadway to doo-wop, hip hop, and Greek chorus. Hit songs include "Hail to the Shoe," "We Love Sheep," and the audience favorite and sing-along "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." Not the Messiah will feature Eric Idle, Victoria Clark, Marc Kudisch, Lauren Worsha...

**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER By: G.H. Harding **** Eric Idle PYTHON RESURRECTED --- So, the original members of Monty Python team are going to reunite? Each time rumors of the surviving five Pythons getting back together have resurfaced over the years – a US tour in 1999, a sequel to the Holy Grail – hopes have been successively squashed as flat as a man with roses in his head beneath a giant animated foot. (In fact, Eric Idle once joked back that they would only do a reunion if Graham Chapman, who died of cancer in 1989, came back from the dead. “So we're negotiating with his agent.”) But, in the way that no one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition, later today Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Jones are due to make an announcement at a press conference in London after months of secret talks. Idle, Cleese and Jones have all since taken to Twitter to confirm that it is true. Jones went on to confirm it w...

**** WALTER MCBRIDE AT THE PUBLIC THEATER **** Glenn Close Eric Idle Martin Short Kevin Kline Jonathan Groff Eric Idle, Kevin Kline, Martin Short, Johnathan Groff And Glenn Close were snapped during the Curtain Call for The Public Theater's Gala Benefit Performance of 'Pirates of Penzance' at the Delacorte Theatre in New York City last night. Photos By: Walter McBride / Retna Ltd.