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By MIKE WEATHERFORD
Review-Journal
Wynn Las Vegas has given Broadway another bite on the kneecap by securing "Monty Python's Spamalot" for a new theater at the hotel in 2007.
But unlike the more imminent musical "Avenue Q," which opens Aug. 27, the Wynn deal won't pre-empt a national tour. The Las Vegas "Spamalot" will follow in the wake of a tour that begins in Boston next March, but the tour will not visit California, Arizona or Nevada.
Wynn will build a 1,600-seat venue, the "Spamalot Experience and Grail Theatre" an estimated $50 million complex with a restaurant and gift shop that will be designed by the musical's Tony Award- winning designer, Tim Hatley, and by Eric Idle, the original Monty Python member who spearheaded the stage project.
"We made a deal very like much like we always do," Wynn said. "We'll build a theater and you bring a show and we'll share in the profits," Wynn told the Associated Press.
Wynn Las Vegas officials would not confirm Monday whether the new theater will be part of the existing casino or saved for Encore, the resort's second-phase project. However, the timetable suggests the venue would likely sit near the current theaters and eventually become part of the space connecting the two hotels.
"Spamalot" will be performed...