A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart

ISBN 10: 1854591452 / ISBN 13: 9781854591456

Published by Nick Hern Books, GB, 2004

About this Item

A bawdy, fast-paced, raunchy comedy musical from one of the world's most influential and innovative creators of musical theatre, loosely based on the plays of Plautus.Pseudolus, a simpering slave, is trying to win his own freedom by cooking up a romance for his master's son, Hero, with the pretty young virgin Philia. But there's a problem - not only is Philia owned by Marcus Lycus, an infamous courtesan dealer, but she's also already promised to swaggering soldier Miles Gloriosus. and neither of them are keen to give her up.Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, with a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, ran for three years on Broadway. The first British production, starring Frankie Howerd as the cowardly slave Pseudolus, ran almost as long and spawned the TV series Up Pompeii!A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Musical.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books, GB
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854591452
• ISBN 13: 9781854591456
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 144 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Stephen Sondheim made his name writing the lyrios of West Side Story and Gypsy, before going on to create Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins and Passion. All are published or distributed by NHB.