The circus is about to fly again: The five surviving members of Monty Python will announce Thursday that they will be reuniting and performing together for the first time in 15 years.

“We’re getting together and putting on a show,” Terry Jones told the BBC on Tuesday. “It’s real.”

“I’m quite excited about it. I hope it makes us a lot of money. I hope to be able to pay off my mortgage!”

Jones also confirmed that all five surviving members — John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Jones — will attend a press conference in London on Thursday to announce the details of the stage show.

The news was first announced in the British tabloid newspaper the Sun.

The group is meeting this morning, Idle tweeted Tuesday. “Can’t wait. Press conference Thursday will apparently be live on Sky News,” adding that he’d tweet a URL for fans wanting to watch the event online.

Monty Python hasn’t performed under that name since a 1998 appearance at the prestigious Aspen Comedy Festival.

The surprise reunion represents an about-face from public comments made by Jones last year at TIFF. “Yes, I don’t think it’s going to happen,” he told the Star’s Peter Howell.

The troupe’s sixth member, the “selfishly dead” Graham Chapman, passed away in 1989 from cancer.