A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart
Based on plays by Titus Maccius Plautus
The Notion
"The time: Two hundred years before the Christian era, on a day in spring. The place: A street in Rome in front of the houses of Lycus, a venal brothel-keeper; Senex, a lecherous patrician; and Erronius, a befuddled old man. The plot revolves around the efforts of Pseudolus, a conniving slave, to gain his freedom by solving his young master's love life, and the complications that ensue."
- Stephen Sondheim in Finishing the Hat -Â
Music
Act One
Overture
Comedy Tonight
Love, I Hear
Free
Lovely
Pretty Little Picture
Everybody Ought to Have a Maid
I'm Calm
Impossible
Bring Me My Bride
Act Two
That Dirty Old Man
That'll Show Him
Lovely (Reprise)
Funeral Sequence
Finale
Cut Songs
Invocation / Forget War (replaced with "Love Is in the Air")
Love Is in the Air (replaced with Comedy Tonight)
The Window Across the Way (replaced with "Love, I Hear")
Free [first version] (replaced with new version)
The House of Marcus Lycus (restored for 1996 Broadway revival)
Your Eyes Are Blue (replaced with "Lovely")
I Do Like You
There's Something About a War (replaced with "Bring Me My Bride")
Miles Gloriosus
Echo Song (replaced with "That'll Show Him")
The Gaggle of Geese
Take the Acorn
What Do You Do with a Woman?
Other Songs
Farewell (written for the 1971 production in Los Angeles)
Albums
Video
Productions & Casts
Awards
1962 Original Broadway Production
Other winners:
Anna Quayle: Tony Award for Featured Actress (Stop the World - I Want to Get Off)
Richard Rodgers: Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Show Album (No Strings)
Tony Awards
8 Nominations
6 Wins
1966 Movie
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture
Academy Awards
1 Nomination
1 Wins
1972 Broadway Revival
Harold Prince & Michael Bennett won the Tony Award for Direction (Follies)
Tony Awards
3 Nominations
2 Wins
1991 Off-Broadway Revival
Bruce Adler won the Drama Desk Award for Featured Actor (Those Were the Days)
1996 Broadway Revival
Other winners:
The King and I: Tony & Drama Desk Awards for Best Revival of a Musical
A Delicate Balance: Drama League Award for Best Revival
George C. Wolfe: Tony Award for Direction (Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk)
Wilson Jermaine Heredia: Tony Award for Featured Actor (Rent)
Bill Whelan: Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album (Riverdance)
Tony Awards
4 Nominations
1 Win
2004 London Revival
Other winners:
Grand Hotel: Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Musical
The Producers: Evening Standard Award for Best Musical
Olivier Awards
1 Nomination
0 Wins
Awards from All Productions
Tony Awards: 9 wins from 15 nominations
Laurence Olivier Awards: 0 wins from 1 nomination
Drama Desk Awards: 1 win from 3 nominations
Drama League Awards: 0 wins from 1 nomination
Evening Standard Awards: 0 wins from 1 nomination
Outer Critics Circle Awards: 3 wins from 3 nominations
Academy Awards: 1 win from 1 nomination
Golden Globe Awards: 0 wins from 1 nomination
Grammy Awards: 0 wins from 2 nominations