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Stephen Sondheim - A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum flac album
  • Performer Stephen Sondheim
  • Title A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
  • Date of release 1962
  • Country US
  • Style Musical
  • Other formats AA TTA AUD DMF MP2 TTA AHX
  • Genre Stage & Screen
  • Size MP3 1254 mb
  • Size FLAC 1592 mb
  • Rating: 4.2
  • Votes: 373

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (251–183 BC), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus, and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door

Forum" is one film adaptation of a Broadway musical that is a half-glass of water. On the half-full side we get to see Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford reprising their Broadway roles, and they're joined by a fine supporting cast including Phil Silvers as Lycus (ironically, he would star as Pseudolus in the 1972 Broadway revival) and Buster Keaton in his last film. But even though the film delivers the laughs and opens itself up well from its stage origins (let's face it.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a 1966 farce musical comedy film, based on the stage musical of the same name. It was inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (251-183 . – specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria – and tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door. The film was directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford reprising their stage roles

Album · 2008 · 16 Songs. Sondheim Tonight: Live From The Barbican Centre, London (Live). Highlights from Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Musical Cast Recording. How to Succeed In Business (Without Really Trying). A Little Night Music (Original Broadway Cast Recording). Original Broadway Cast of A Little Night Music.

Album A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Original Broadway Cast). look I'm calm I'm calm I haven't a qualm I'm utterly under control Let nothing confuse me Or faze me- - Excuse me I'm calm.

Instead of introducing us to the characters or putting the plot in motion, it seeks only to tell the audience what kind of show they're about to see. The song is a litany of quick, descriptive rhymes (erratic/dramatic,, surprises/disguises) that set only mood, a lightning bolt of perfection instigated by choreographer and show doctor Jerome Robbins after two prior songs had been discarded out of town

Tracklist

A1 Overture
A2 Comedy Tonight
A3 Love, I Hear
A4 Free
A5 Lovely
A6 Pretty Little Picture
B1 Everybody Ought To Have A Maid
B2 I'm Calm
B3 Impossible
B4 Bring Me My Bride
B5 That Dirty Old Man
B6 That'll Show Him
B7 Lovely (Reprise)
B8 Funeral Sequence
B9 Finale

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
SW 1717 Stephen Sondheim A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum ‎(LP, Album) Capitol Records SW 1717 US 1962
SW 1717 Stephen Sondheim A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum ‎(LP, Album) Capitol Records SW 1717 Australia 1962
BCD 3002 Stephen Sondheim A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Original Broadway Cast) ‎(CD, Album) Bay Cities BCD 3002 US 1989
ZDM 0777 7 64770 2 2 Stephen Sondheim - Zero Mostel Stephen Sondheim - Zero Mostel - A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Original Broadway Cast) ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM) Broadway Angel ZDM 0777 7 64770 2 2 US 1993
SWAO 1717 Stephen Sondheim A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum ‎(LP, Album) Capitol Records SWAO 1717 US 1962