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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
There goes numerous hilarious acts when a slave, so desperate for his freedom, does anything and everything to get it. Enjoy a show filled with situational comedy, enacted by brilliant performers. Book your tickets on-line now, and have a fun filled hours to yourself.
A Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical. The music and lyrics are by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shavelove and Larry Gelbart. Stephen Sondheim, was born on March 22, 1930 in New York City. His birth name is Stephen Joshua Sondeim, he is composer and lyricist for stage and screen. He is among those few people who won Academy Awards, multiple Tony Awards, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Price.
The play is based on the comedies of ancient Roman playwright Plautus. It is the story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom, for this he encourages romance between his master's son Hero and a young virgin named Philia. Marcus Lycus is a dealer in courtesans owns Philia and has promised her to a swaggering soldier named Miles Gloriosus. The humor is broad, bawdy and fast-paced. Sondheim's score was good when Forum opened on May8, 1962, on Broadway, at the Alvin Theater. Although the score was not nominated for Tony Award even though the show won the award for Best Musical. The show stars Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, David Burns, Ruth Kobart, and John Carradine. The Broadway legend George Abbott was the director of original production and also played 966 performances- Sondheim's longest Broadway run to date.
Characters of the play are as follows:
Pseudolus- He is a sneaky, lazy slave and a playful prankster, desperately wanting his freedom. He is in the lead role.
Domina- She is mid age lady, a dominating wife of Senex and the ruler of the house.
Hero- He is an innocent, handsome and a kind master of Pseudolus. He is in love with Philia, who is a courtesans from the house of Lycus.
Hysterium- He is the fervent leader of the slaves.
Lycus- He is an skeptical buyer and seller of courtesans.
Miles Glorious- An arrogant and strong warrior.
Philia- She is a lovely but applesauce courtesans from Crete who belongs to the house of Lycus.
Senex- He is an old man, married to Domina and is Hero's father.
Erronius- an indecisive old man in search of his son and daughter, who were stolen by pirates.
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Show Biography -a Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
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 A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum is good example of well executed and good-hearted, musical farce. Its an Ancient Rome background, deceitful slave Pseudolus is so desperate for his freedom that he would do anything and everything for it. Hero, his young and handsome master is in love with a beautiful lady, whom he saw at at the next door in the local bride-for-sale market. He promises Pseudolus his freedom in return of his help to get that woman. Pseudolus along with the fervent leader of the slaves Hysterium, lies and conspire the courtesan, Philia, from owner of the harem. But the hard part comes when her rightful owner, Miles Gloriosus, shows up. Their plan gets complicated from there, as the Hero's parents lecherous Senex and dominating freak Domina get involved making the whole situation a hilarious.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was later made into a film by Richard Lester in 1966. The film stared Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Buster Keaton, a very young Micheal Crawford and Phil Silver, who was also in a critically well-received Broadway revival in 1972. It was revived, receiving the great success in 1996 with Nathan Lane casted as Pseudolus,who was again replaced later by Whoopi Goldberg, and David Alan Grier. At the Strand Theater in 1963 and the Piccadilly Theater in 1986, the show began its presentation twice in London's West End starring Frankie Howerd as Pseudolus.
Witness the craziness that goes when a lazy, sneaky salve and his desperate attempts to get his freedom. Book your tickets on line and enjoy the show of comedy.
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