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 ".

* The title is referenced in Marvel One-Shots A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer and is included on the Captain America: The First Avenger Blu-ray Disc and DVD releases.

*"' A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ' plot summary & character descriptions " from StageAgent. com

* A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Internet Broadway Database

* ' A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Sondheim Guide

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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.

It is a working horse farm and an educational theme park, along with holding the distinction of being a retirement home for some of the world's greatest competition horses including Cigar and 2003 Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide.

Many of the songs from these shows are still sung and remembered, including " The Most Beautiful Girl in the World ", " My Romance ", " Little Girl Blue ", " I'll Tell the Man in the Street ", " There's a Small Hotel ", " Where or When ", " My Funny Valentine ", " The Lady is a Tramp ", " Falling in Love with Love ", " Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered ", and " Wait Till You See Her ".

In modern theater, the character Miles Gloriosus ( Latin: " Famous or Boastful Soldier ") from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is an obvious form of the character, though modeled from the earlier Roman plays.

In 2008, Michael Haneke made Funny Games U. S., his English-language remake of his original Funny Games ( this is also an example of a shot-for-shot remake ), while Martin Campbell, director of the miniseries Edge of Darkness, directed the 2010 film adaptation.

A covered bridge is also prominently featured in the story Never Bet the Devil Your Head, by Edgar Allan Poe and a dilapidated covered bridge serves as a major plot point in the 1988 movie Funny Farm.

In the book " Almodovar on Almodovar " he is quoted saying that the 1950s film " Funny Face " is a central inspiration for his work.

Funny River is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States.

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

Funny Money is a farce written by Ray Cooney.

An example is the remix of " Ain't It Funny " by Jennifer Lopez, which has little in common with the original recording apart from the title.

: When Brennecke ( in " The Real Mission of the Funny Paper " by Ernest Brennecke, from The Century Magazine, March 1924 ) locates the truth of comic strip realism in the comics ' habit of " commenting trenchantly " on " the life of the middle classes ," it is comics like The Yellow Kid and artists like Willard that he has in mind ...

Omar Sharif (, ; born Michel Demitri Shalhoub, ; April 10, 1932 ) is an Egyptian actor who has starred in Hollywood films including Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Funny Girl.

*( 1937 ) " Where or When ", I Wish I Were in Love Again ", " My Funny Valentine ", " Johnny One Note ", " The Lady is a Tramp " ( from Babes in Arms )

Funny Cide ( foaled April 20, 2000 ) is a Thoroughbred race horse who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes in 2003.

Funny Cide's time, 2: 01. 19, is the tenth fastest time in Kentucky Derby history.

Funny Cide is a two-time " New York – bred Horse of the Year ".

Children's Album, Book 2, first published in 1964, includes a fugue composed in 1928, and a fast-paced programmatic piece entitled Two Funny Aunties Argued which is sometimes translated as Two Ladies Gossiping.

Funny Car is a drag racing car class.

Funny cars have a fixed gear ratio of 3. 20: 1 and have a reversing gear ; power is transmitted from engine to final drive through a multiple staged clutch which provides progressive incremental lockup as the run proceeds.

Currently, John Force is the winningest driver in the Funny Car class with 15 championships under his belt, and over 1, 000 race wins, and almost 1, 000 National Event wins, the winningest crew chief is Austin Coil, who was Force's crew chief for all of his championships, and Force is also the winningest owner, with 17 championships.