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.

* 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.

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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.

`` Funny thing '', Mr. Kahler said, when they were seated, `` when I heard you ringing, I figured it was that guy down the block, Hausman ''.

In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.

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.

The first ( photographed ) animated projection was " Humorous Phases of Funny Faces " ( 1906 ) by newspaper cartoonist J. Stuart Blackton, one of the co-founders of the Vitagraph Company arrived.

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.

The subsequent single-only release " Shakespeare's Sister " reached number 26 on the UK Singles Chart, although the only single taken from the album, " That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore ", was less successful, barely making the top 50.

Newton-John was homesick in England for her then-boyfriend, Ian Turpie, with whom she had co-starred in the Australian telefilm, Funny Things Happen Down Under.

He was boosted further by success on That Was The Week That Was ( TW3 ) in 1963 and on stage with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( 1963 – 1965 ), which led into regular television work.

Other recent television series examples include the Transformers: Generation 2 animated series, which was made from the Transformers: Generation 1 animated series, NFL Network's NFL's Greatest Games series, American Idol Rewind, That's Funny!

The musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, set in ancient Rome, was also said to be an influence.

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.

The final single used to promote the film was " My Funny Friend and Me ".

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.

( Fraidy Cat was included as part of Volume 2 of a compilation entitled " Frightfully Funny ".

* Doe Avedon, fashion model and actress, wife of Richard Avedon, the inspiration for Audrey Hepburn's character in Funny Face ( Avedon was legally adopted by the wealthy employer of her biological father who served as a butler until his untimely passing )

Funny Money was released on DVD March 27, 2007

She was nominated for three more Tony Awards, for choreography, for Flower Drum Song, Bravo Giovanni and, posthumously, for Funny Girl.

Walter Davis Pidgeon ( September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984 ) was a Canadian actor, who starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs. Miniver, The Bad and the Beautiful, Forbidden Planet, Advise & Consent, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Funny Girl and Harry in Your Pocket.