THE Broadway and West End smash hit Spamalot will play York for one week only this autumn at the Grand Opera House on the Monty Python musical’s first national tour.

Tickets are newly on sale for the run from November 22 to 27, when evening performances at 7.30pm will be complemented by Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm.

Lovingly “ripped off” from the 1975 film comedy Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Spamalot features an original score by Python stalwart Eric Idle and John Du Prez and won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical.

The show tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, who encounter a bevy of beautiful show girls, cows, killer rabbits and French people. The touring cast is yet to be confirmed.

In another coup for the Grand Opera House, House Of Ghosts, An Inspector Morse Mystery will visit York from September 16 to 18.

Exactly 35 years since a certain grumpy super-sleuth with an eye for the ladies and a thirst for beer made his first appearance in Colin Dexter’s novel Last Bus To Woodstock, Morse is to tour Britain in a new murder mystery.

By special arrangement with Dexter, Alma Cullen – the writer behind four of the ITV episodes – brings back the inscrutable detective for a truly theatrical tale. Since Oxford undergraduate days, Morse has regarded theatre director Laurence Baxter as the only truly evil man he has ever met.

What happens when, some 20 years later, Morse finds Baxter at the centre of a murder case that involves the on-stage death of a young actress? Find out the 7.30pm evening performances or 2.30pm Saturday matinee.

Box office: 0844 847 2322 or www.grandoperahouseyork.org.uk