Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus ( 251 – 183 BC ), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.

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.

In 2004 there was a limited-run revival at the Royal National Theatre starring Desmond Barrit as Pseudolus, Philip Quast as Miles Gloriosus, Hamish McColl as Hysterium and Isla Blair as Domina ( who had previously played Philia in the 1963 production ).

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.

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.

Unfortunately ( as the two find out when they pay a visit on Lycus ), Philia has been promised to the renowned warrior Miles Gloriosus, who is on his way to claim her.

When Miles Gloriosus arrives to claim his courtesan-bride, Pseudolus hides Philia on the roof of Senex's house ; told that she has " escaped ," Lycus is terrified to face the Captain's wrath.

Unfortunately, it turns out that Miles Gloriosus has just returned from Crete, where there is of course no actual plague.

His plot thoroughly unraveled, Pseudolus appears to be in deep trouble — but Erronius, completing his third circuit of the Roman hills, shows up fortuitously to discover that Miles Gloriosus and Philia are wearing matching rings which mark them as his long-lost children.

* Miles Gloriosus: ( Latin for " boastful soldier ," the archetype of the braggart soldier in Roman comedies ) A captain in the Roman army to whom Marcus Lycus has promised Philia.

* " Bring Me My Bride " — Miles Gloriosus and Company

* " Funeral Sequence " — Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Company

He argues that the figure of Chauvin continues the long tradition of the mythological farmer-soldier or Miles Gloriosus from ancient times in Greek mythology.

Pyrgopolynices from Miles Gloriosus ( vs. 1265 ), in bragging about his long life, says he was born one day later than Jupiter.

He says that “ the plays themselves contain occasional references to the fact that the state is at arms ...” One good example is a piece of verse from the Miles Gloriosus, the composition date of which is not clear but which is often placed in the last decade of the 3rd century BC.

In his article “ On a Patriotic Passage in the Miles Gloriosus of Plautus ”, he states that the war “ engrossed the Romans more than all other public interests combined ”.

A single reading of the Miles Gloriosus leaves the reader with the notion that the names, place, and play is Greek, but one must look beyond these superficial interpretations.

In their introduction to the Miles Gloriosus, Hammond, Mack and Moskalew say that “ the Romans were acquainted with the Greek stone theater, but, because they believed drama to be a demoralizing influence, they had a strong aversion to the erection of permanent theaters .” This worry rings true when considering the subject matter of Plautus ’ plays.

For example, in Miles Gloriosus, the titular “ braggart soldier ” Pyrgopolynices only shows his vain and immodest side in the first act, while the parasite Artotrogus exaggerates Pyrgopolynices ’ achievements, creating more and more ludicrous claims that Pyrgopolynices agrees to without question.

Periplectomenos ( Miles Gloriosus ) and Daemones ( Rudens ) are regarded as senes lepidi because they usually keep their feelings within a respectable limit.

M. Hammond, A. H. Mack, and W. Moskalew have noted in their introduction to the text of the Miles Gloriosus that Plautus was, “ free from convention ... that he sought to reproduce the easy tone of daily speech rather than the formal regularity of oratory or poetry.

In the Miles Gloriosus, the servus callidus is Palaestrio.

One well known instance in the Miles Gloriosus is Sceledre, scelus.

Limited records suggest that the first known university production of Plautus in England was of Miles Gloriosus at Oxford in 1522-3.

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 ).

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The concept of cruising for pleasure was popularized in the nineteenth century, by several widely read authors and books: John MacGregor, 1866, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe ; Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877, An Inland Voyage ; and Nathaniel H. Bishop, 1879, Four Months in a Sneakbox.

Paul Chambers ( who worked with Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue album ) achieved renown for being one of the first jazz bassists to play bebop solos with the bow.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Terry Molloy played Davros in the remounting of the play, again with Peter Miles for another one-off production, mounted in 2005.

The team chose the last and informed McLaren and Miles of the decision just before the two got in their cars for the final stint.

Hints about this future war are dropped in several books earlier in the series beginning with Lawrence Miles's Alien Bodies and the war itself plays out as it would have originally done in Miles ' Faction Paradox series in which certain names are changed for copyright reasons ( the Time Lords become the Great Houses and Gallifrey becomes the Home World ).

Indeed, the term " raga rock " was coined by The Byrds ' publicist in the press releases for the single and was first used in print by journalist Sally Kempton in her review of " Eight Miles High " for The Village Voice.

Guitarists in the fusion realm fused the post-bop harmonic and melodic language of musicians such as John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis with a hard-edged ( and usually very loud ) rock tone created by iconic guitarists such as Cream's Eric Clapton who'd redefined the sound of the guitar for those unfamiliar with the black blues players of Chicago and, before that, the Delta region of the Mississippi upon whom his style was based.

Guitarists such as Pat Martino, Al Di Meola, Larry Coryell, John Abercrombie, John Scofield and Mike Stern ( the latter two both alumni of the Miles Davis band ) fashioned a new language for the guitar which introduced jazz to a new generation of fans.

In 1999, New York City lawyer and minor league baseball owner Miles Prentice, vowing not to move the team, bid $ 75 million for the team.

The alternate mix was remastered by legendary sound engineer Steve Hoffman, who is best-known for his meticulousness in remastering high quality audiophile back catalogue recordings of artists such as Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell ( Hoffman gained international prominence for his classic work on gold-plated CDs for the DCC label ).

Though named by Parliament for treason, Mr. Miles Corbet and Edmond Ludlow were for a while were permitted to continue to sit with Parliament, and for a time the charges against these men were dropped.

Bujold devised for this planet a history which allowed for “ swords ‘ n ’ spaceships .” Barrayar in the lifetime of Miles Vorkosigan commands spaceships, computers, and other high technology, but its culture remembers dueling, examines newborns for defects and practices infanticide if any are found, celebrates the Emperor ’ s birthday by handing him bags of gold, and provides liveried life-sworn servants to carry love-letters sealed with the writer's blood.

For instance, the clever slave has important roles in both L ’ Avare and L ’ Etourdi, two plays by Molière, and in both drives the plot and creates the ruse just like Palaestrio in Miles Gloriosus.

For some of those writers, the BBV audios have offered a chance to revisit their creations: for instance, the range includes a story by Pip & Jane Baker explaining what happened to the Rani ( last seen in Doctor Who being abducted by a group of aliens that were also created by the writing pair ), and a series of stories by Lawrence Miles about his history-spanning terrorist organisation Faction Paradox.

M, for instance, is not Sir Miles Messervy, but the female M that was first introduced in the film GoldenEye ( 1995 ), although Gardner also introduced this character in his novelisation of that film and retained the character through his final novel COLD ( 1996 ).

It has also been performed by Miles Davis ( such as on Round About Midnight and his 1964 live recording Four and More ) and Tony Bennett ( for instance on his MTV Unplugged album ).