“If Ethan Slater can do a backbend, let’s let him do a backbend. “I think we created our show in sort of the same spirit that they created the original, which was: Who do we have and what can they do? And let’s cater to those people,” Urie said. The trio got their first onstage experience performing Python humor at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where the current Broadway production originated in a quickie, 10-day run. “If you’re in college theater, there’s always a couple of conversations that happen in a green room,” Iglehart explained. When Iglehart, Kritzer and Urie got involved in the show, they came with varying degrees of familiarity with the distinctive humor of Monty Python, the comedy troupe whose film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” was the inspiration for “Spamalot.” Iglehart, for instance, had never heard of them until he got to college. “Chris is literally figuring out bits while he’s doing other bits,” Iglehart added. Urie chimed in, “There’s a moment where we’re onstage and he’s just staring at me for the express purpose of making me laugh. “I absolutely love it, and I also can’t break because I’m singing. “Chris will look at me during my song ‘Find Your Grail,’ and I’m singing, and he’s like crossing his eyes at me,” Kritzer said. Among the actors, Chris Fitzgerald (“Waitress”) seems like the troublemaker of the group.
