Taking the bait, Senex instructs Hysterium to draw him a bath in the long-abandoned house of Erronius.

Pseudolus convinces Hysterium to help him by dressing in drag and pretending to be Philia, " dead " from the plague.

He starred in shows such as Mister Roberts, where he replaced David Wayne in the role of Ensign Frank Pulver, which Jack Lemmon later acted out in the film version, Harold, Foxy, The Apple Tree ( as the devil ), You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, and a revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ( with Phil Silvers ), which he helped produce and for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the role of the slave Hysterium.

In the center is the house of Senex, who lives there with wife Domina, son Hero, and several slaves, including head slave Hysterium and the musical's main character Pseudolus.

* Hysterium: ( Latin for " Hysterical ", or " Anxious ", the suffix "- um " makes the name neuter, and the character's gender is often mistaken throughout the piece ) The chief slave in the house of Senex.

Hysterium arrives to this confusion, and tells Senex that Philia is the new maid that he has hired.

With the ruse thus revealed, the main characters run for their lives, resulting in a madcap chase across the stage with both Miles and Senex pursuing all three " Philia " s ( Domina, Hysterium, and the actual Philia — all wearing identical white robes and veils ).

* " Everybody Ought to Have a Maid " — Senex, Pseudolus, Hysterium and Lycus

* " I'm Calm " — Hysterium

* " Lovely " ( reprise ) — Pseudolus and Hysterium

Larry Blyden, who played Hysterium, the role created by Jack Gilford, also co-produced.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

She also appeared as Philia in the national tour of " Forum ," starring Jerry Lester ( Pseudolus ), with Paul Hartman ( Senex ), Erik Rhodes ( Marcus Lycus ), Arnold Stang ( Hysterium ) and Edward Everett Horton ( Erronius ), produced by Martin Tahse.

The 1963 production and its 1986 revival were staged at the Strand Theatre and the Piccadilly Theatre respectively, and featured Frankie Howerd starring as Pseudolus, Kenneth Connor as Hysterium, ' Monsewer ' Eddie Gray as Senex, Jon Pertwee as Marcus Lycus and Leon Greene as Miles Gloriosus.

The cast featured Richard Kind as Pseudolus, Joel Blum as Senex, Stephen DeRosa as Marcus Lycus, Sean McCall as Hysterium, and Steve Wilson as Miles Gloriosus.

Stephen Ouimette played Hysterium.

Connor starred in the revue One Over the Eight ( 1962 ), at the Duke of York's Theatre, the original London West End production with Frankie Howerd of the Stephen Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum ( 1963 ), as Hysterium – and directed the show when it went on tour – The Four Musketeers ( 1967 ), with Harry Secombe at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, playing King Louis XIII, and the revue Carry On London ( 1973 ) at the Victoria Palace.

He made his comeback as Hysterium in the 1962 production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

I was desperate to hold him, to give him whatever in this world he wanted or needed, and to keep him from the clutches of Lucille Warren.

Her policies, therefore, may be seen as desperate measures to keep the Valois monarchy on the throne at all costs, and her patronage of the arts as an attempt to glorify a monarchy whose prestige was in steep decline.

Michael V, desperate to keep his throne, initially brought Zoe back from Princes ’ Island and displayed her to the people, but his insistence that he continue to rule alongside Zoe was rejected.

The phrase is also used to refer to a particular scene, episode or aspect of a show in which the writers use some type of " gimmick " in a desperate attempt to keep viewers ' interest.

In a desperate attempt to at least keep the North Sea open, an under-equipped Dutch fleet engaged the English again at the Battle of the Gabbard.

Michael V, desperate to keep his throne, initially brought Zoe back from Princes ’ Island and displayed her to the people, but his insistence that he continue to rule alongside Zoe was rejected.

While he is generally considered to be rather short-tempered when compared to Rama, Lakshmana is also considered an important element of Mariyada Purushottama, displaying great courage and presence of mind when Rama becomes distraught, angry and desperate over the loss of Sita — in an uncharacteristic display of desperation, a furious and almost hopeless Rama, not knowing of Sita's fate or whereabouts, is suddenly about to fire a weapon capable of bringing vast devastation of life ; Lakshmana stops Rama, calms him down, explains to him that the world is not responsible for their separation from Sita, and consoles and encourages his righteous brother, while giving him support and strength to keep looking for her.

She was in desperate need of a refit and had to be kept afloat with pumps to keep the water out of her hull.

Heedless to all threats against herself, left alone as the only Western woman in an absolute and anti-Christian monarchy at war with the West, beset with raging fevers and nursing a tiny baby that her husband had not yet seen, she rushed from office to office in desperate attempts to keep her husband alive and win his freedom.

The reaction to this by customers was fairly large and many left the provider to rival Sky, others were retained as Telewest offered them a free upgrade to the Disney Channel for periods of between one and three months, others were reportedly offered upgrades to Sky Movies packages in a desperate attempt to keep them from leaving.

When he and Bernice are caught in a desperate attempt to keep the society from winning out, he is arrested and thrown in jail, and she escapes, running off to find help.

" I had this terrible, terrible conflict within myself to immediately tell my friends about it at war with a maniacal, desperate drive to keep it hidden at all costs.

Milan, desperate to keep the striker, offered Shevchenko a six-year contract extension.

Circumstances became so desperate in the early 1990s that, to keep the show afloat, ABC assigned its own programming suits, network executive Haidee Granger and later, Vice President of Daytime Programming JoAnn Emmerich, to serve as Executive Producers.

When Nina gave birth to a son, she decided to keep the baby, but Rose made sure that this would not happen as she stole the baby and sold him to a couple, the Lansings, who were desperate to adopt, afterwards Rose left town.

When Apocalypse offered his empowered blood to them, it was all that the heroes could do to keep Skids and other desperate mutants from accepting the evil substance.

When they announce that they are in love and going to America together, Zoe, desperate to keep Dennis, announces that she is pregnant.

PRIDE, desperate to keep the Gracie family with them, accepted their demands.

Roy is desperate to keep the news from Hayley but breaks down and admits everything.

She hired an army of warrior women from the Isle of Akalla. Later obliterates herself in a desperate attempt to keep her power from Lillabeth.

The pound sterling crashed out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after chancellor Norman Lamont had invested heavily in trying to keep it there, adjusting interest rates four times in one day as a desperate measure.

The Williamses were 1-2 in qualifying ahead of the McLarens but Hill, desperate to keep his Championship hopes alive took pole from Prost, with Häkkinen surprisingly ahead of Senna with Alesi and Schumacher behind.

The Williamses were 1 – 2 in qualifying ahead of the McLarens but Hill, desperate to keep his Championship hopes alive took pole from Prost, with Häkkinen surprisingly ahead of Senna with Alesi and Schumacher behind.

Adolf Hitler, desperate to keep the operation a secret, had ordered that no reconnaissance of the battlefield was allowed before the attack began.