FOLLOWING the Pythons’ incredible ten-night sell-out run at London’s O2 Arena in 2014, Monty Python’s Spamalot will gallop back to Mayflower Theatre next month ...to the sound of banging coconut shells!

Comedian and former King of the Jungle Joe Pasquale will reprise his much- loved role of King Arthur alongside EastEnders’ Todd Carty as Patsy, (making up the Spamalot dream team).

Having first played King Arthur for a successful West End run last summer, Pasquale is pleased as punch to be back in the role (he would be pleased as Holy Grail Ale, but it’s not really got the same ring to it).

He takes top billing alongside Carty, who starred as Patsy from the very start of this production both on tour and in the West End run.

Lovingly ripped off from the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot is a kind of new musical with a book by Eric Idle and an entirely new score for the new production (well, almost) created by Eric Idle and John Du Prez.

Idle said of the show: “Spamalot is fun. The new production is funnier, it’s more like a Python show. There are new costumes and new sets and a new director (Christopher Luscombe), so it’s just got a whole different spirit to it.”

Pasquale said: "I loved my time as King Arthur in the West End production. I am very excited to have been asked to return for the new UK tour. I will be joining a fantastic Spamalot cast and can’t wait to get back on my invisible horse as we search the land for The Holy Grail.”

Carty said: “I’m dusting down my coconuts as we speak, so that Patsy can go on a new adventure with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.”

Pasquale originally won the part of King Arthur through a truly unique casting process as he and Bonnie Langford had both appeared in ITV1’s Dancing on Ice and starred together in Pirates of Penzance, so she contacted him on Twitter when she was playing The Lady of The Lake, invited him to see her in the show and suggested to the producers that he’d be a great King Arthur (she was proved right!).

Pasquale’s performance has been described as “being Joe Pasquale at his very best”, having a “loveable quality” and his “comic touches and ad-libs work perfectly in the fast-paced dialogue”.

Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and features a bevy (or possibly a brace) of beautiful show girls, witch burnings (cancelled due to health and safety) not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people.

The show features fantastic tunes more magical than a Camelot convention, including He Is Not Dead Yet, Knights of the Round Table, Find Your Grail and of course the Nation’s Favourite Comedy Song (Reader’s Digest Poll 2010 – before it went bust), Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.

The latest tour, directed by Christopher Luscombe, follows hot on the heels of the can’t-believe-how-successful-it-was-with-the-first-show-selling-out-in-40-seconds Monty Python Reunion at The O2 and Eric Idle’s acclaimed performance of Always Look On The Bright Side of Life at the 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony.

The world sang along, and Spamalot audiences get the opportunity to do so too! During the West End run there were 21 onstage moustache incidents, three suspected cases of swine flu (French pigs!), three outbreaks of nits and 92 pairs of coconuts used.