Celebrate DVD release with Monty Python Tshirts

31/03/2010

Monty Python fans take note, a DVD release has been confirmed for Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy).

A special performance of Eric Idle's comedy opera, based on the classic Python film Life of Brian and featuring appearances from Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam, will be available to buy on DVD and Blu-ray from June 8th.

The concert featured in the DVD is last October's 40th anniversary performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, giving fans the perfect excuse to pull on their Monty Python Tshirts once again.

Special features include a bonus documentary called The Road to the Albert Hall, which presents interviews with the cast and crew during the build-up to the show.

Written by Idle and composer John Du Prez, with whom he also collaborated on Spamalot, Not the Messiah premiered at the Luminato Festival in Canada in 2007.

Idle has said the production "ranges in reference from Handel, through a naughty Mozart duet, to the Festival of Nine Carols, Bob Dylan and the classic finale Always Look on the Bright Side of Life".