A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, Stephen Sondheim

ISBN: 9781854591456

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, Stephen Sondheim

ISBN: 9781854591456

Out of stock

Overview

Based - very loosely - on the plays of Plautus, A Funny Thing...ran for three years on Broadway with Zero Mostel as the cowardly slave, Pseudolus. The first British production, with Frankie Howerd, ran almost as long and spawned the TV series Up Pompeii! A Funny Thing...was only Sondheim's third musical and the first for which he wrote the score as well as the lyrics. On the first two, West Side Story and Gypsy, he had written lyrics only. It opened on Broadway in May 1962 and ran for 964 performances.

Authors

Author

Burt Shevelove

Author

Larry Gelbart

Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) wrote the music and lyrics for Saturday Night (1954), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Anyone Can Whistle (1964), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), The Frogs (1974), Pacific Overtures (1976), Sweene ...

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