Alan Tudyk

NEW YORK (AP) - Alan Tudyk will be Broadway’s new Lancelot in Monty Python’s Spamalot.

Tudyk replaces Hank Azaria who is leaving in early June to film a second season of his Showtime television series Huff. By Miranda Shen, AP

He replaces Hank Azaria who is leaving in early June to film a second season of his Showtime television series Huff.

Tudyk joins the hit musical, based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, sometime during the week of June 6. Azaria will return to the show in late November for another six months.

The 34-year-old, Texas-born Tudyk is a New York theater veteran, having received the Clarence Derwent Award for most promising male newcomer in 1997 for his performance in Bunny, Bunny, a play about Gilda Radner. Among his other New York stage credits are roles in several comedies, including Paul Rudnick’s The Most Fabulous Story Every Told in 1998 and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Wonder of the World in 2001, both done off-Broadway. He also appeared on Broadway in 1999 with Kristin Chenoweth in Epic Proportions, a comedy by Larry Coen and David Crane.

Among Tudyk’s films are I, Robot (2004), Dodgeball (2004), A Knight’s Tale (2001) and Wonder Boys (2000). He also was a regular on the sci-fi TV series Firefly (2002).