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.

A Funny Thing has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the musical, Zero Mostel.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened on Broadway on May 8, 1962 at the Alvin Theatre, and then transferred to the Mark Hellinger Theatre and the Majestic Theatre, where the show closed on August 29, 1964, after 964 performances and 8 previews.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

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20th century musicals based on Plautus include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( Stephen Sondheim ).

* A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( 1966 ) d. Richard Lester

Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.

Eventually Sondheim wrote both the music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

* A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( 1962 ) ( book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart ; directed by George Abbott )

Jerome Robbins ' Broadway features " You Gotta Have a Gimmick " from Gypsy, " Suite of Dances " from West Side Story, and " Comedy Tonight " from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

* A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum ( 1966 ), a movie adaptation of the musical.

* A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( 1963, Best Musical )

Another way Steed contacted her was in the beginning of episode 13, " A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Station " when she enters her flat and sees a Meccano Percy the Small Engine going around a circular track with a note on one of the train cars that says " Mrs. Peel " in bold letters, she then walks over to Steed who says " you're needed ".

Gelbart co-wrote the long-running Broadway musical farce A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim in 1962.

* A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( with Burt Shevelove ) ( 1962 ) ( Theater )

Keaton's last film appearance was in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( 1966 ) which was filmed in Spain in late 1965.

On stage, he played the part of Lycus in the 1963 London production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Frankie Howerd and appeared in the smaller role of Crassus in the 1966 film version.

* A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( 1966 )

After the Allied liberation of Rome on June 4, 1944, Fellini and Enrico De Seta opened the Funny Face Shop where they survived the postwar recession drawing caricatures of American soldiers.

* Jerome Robbins, choreographer for a number of hit musicals, including Peter Pan, The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof, Gypsy, Funny Girl, and West Side Story.

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

*" Don't Rain on My Parade " ( from Funny Girl )

In recent years, the school has put on a musical version of The Bacchae ( October 2009 ) as well as a production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( May 2010 ) and The Cherry Orchard ( February 2011 ) Joseph K ( October 2011 ) and most recently put on Cyrano de Bergerac last May.

John Bowles went on to a successul career in cabaret and in music theatre, playing leads in shows like " Cats ", " A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum ", " Hello Dolly " and the romantic lead character of Raoul in 1, 000 performances of " The Phantom Of The Opera " around the world.

In 1906, Albert Edward Smith and James Stuart Blackton at Vitagraph took the next step, and in their Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, what appear to be cartoon drawings of people move from one pose to another.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

Keaton was at one point briefly institutionalized ; however, according to the TCM documentary So Funny it Hurt, Keaton escaped a straitjacket with tricks learned during his vaudeville days.

Book two of the popular Cole's Funny Picture Books, published in Australia by E. W. Cole at the turn of the 20th century, was revised in 1979 to include an article introducing Quikscript under the name Second Shaw.

After the close of Funny Face, the Astaires went to Hollywood for a screen test ( now lost ) at Paramount Pictures, but were not considered suitable for films.

for a proposed national UK tour, but the play was shelved when Howerd was offered a chance by Larry Gelbart to reprise his role as Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum at the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End.

Hanson was the musical guest at the Tulsa stop of The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour starring Conan O ' Brien on May 15, 2010.

Funny River is located at ( 60. 493952 ,-150. 781743 ), just outside of Soldotna.

Haney died in Saddle Brook, New Jersey in 1964, at age 39, six weeks after the opening of Funny Girl, which she choreographed.

* September: One of the hosts of the So You Think You're Funny comedy gala at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

* Was featured nearly in its entirety in the 2010 film It's Kind of a Funny Story, initially as a ' cover ' by the patients in a music therapy class at a New York City psychiatric ward, which the film transformed into the authentic song ' performed ' by the patients, dressed in glam, in a near music-video style imaginary sequence ( with David Bowie and Queen's original vocals and instrumentation ).

Funny, disturbing, finally devastating, O ' Toole finds his way into the workings of madness, revealing the anger and consuming anguish at the source.

* Funny Face Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 22 and ran for 250 performances

In June 2010, Trey appeared as a surprise musical guest on Conan O ' Brien's " The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour " stop at the Tower Theater ( Upper Darby, Pennsylvania ).

The classes contested at NHRA Divisional races include Snowmobile, Motorcycle Classes, Super Street, Super Gas, Stock Eliminator, Super Stock, Competition Eliminator, Super Comp, Top Sportsman, Top Dragster, Top Alcohol Funny Car and Top Alcohol Dragster.

Always at the forefront of driver safety, in the wake of Funny Car driver Scott Kalitta's fatal crash, Garlits declared " I am 100-percent in favor of it ", regarding NHRA's proposal to trim the race distance for Top Fuel and Funny Car from the traditional quarter-mile to 1, 000 feet, also suggesting that he would support a ban on rev limiters and a return to a 70 / 30 nitromethane to methanol ratio.

Bred at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, Funny Cide was foaled at the McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbred Farm, owned by Joe and Anne McMahon in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Funny Cide was originally purchased in August 2001 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga preferred yearling auction in Saratoga Springs for $ 22, 000 by Tony Everard.

Funny Cide lost the Wood by a short neck and was pressing Empire Maker at the wire, even after New York Hero bore out very wide early, taking the gelding with him and losing him his early momentum.

Shipped in at the last moment by Tagg and stabled in Mary Eppler's barn to keep him calm and out from under the press, this time Funny Cide was the betting favorite.

The finish was a three-way photo at the wire between runner-up Funny Cide, the winner Offlee Wild, and The Lady's Groom.