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8%OFFStephen Sondheim - Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 9781854591456 - V9781854591456
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Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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Description for Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Paperback. The book and lyrics of the first musical for which Sondheim composed the score as well. "Forum" opened in 1962 and is Sondheim's longest running play. Other plays for which he has written both the music and lyrics are "A Little Night Music", "Into the Woods" and "Assassins". Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: AVGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 180 x 8. Weight in Grams: 156.

A bawdy, fast-paced, raunchy comedy musical from one of the world's most influential and innovative creators of musical theatre, loosely based on the plays of Plautus.

Pseudolus, a simpering slave, is trying to win his own freedom by cooking up a romance for his master's son, Hero, with the pretty young virgin Philia. But there's a problem – not only is Philia owned by Marcus Lycus, an infamous courtesan dealer, but she's also already promised to swaggering soldier Miles Gloriosus... and neither of them are keen to give her up.

Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the ... Read more, with a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, ran for three years on Broadway. The first British production, starring Frankie Howerd as the cowardly slave Pseudolus, ran almost as long and spawned the TV series Up Pompeii!

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Musical.

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Product Details

Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854591456
SKU
V9781854591456
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) was a celebrated American composer and lyricist, one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theatre. Sondheim started his theatre career by writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959) before becoming a composer and lyricist. Sondheim's best-known works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), ... Read more

Reviews for Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
'The funniest, bawdiest and most enchanting musical that Plautus, with a little help from Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove and Lary Belbart, ever wrote'
New York Times
'Spectacularly generous when it comes to the gags... one of the most exuberant opening numbers ever penned... The comic plot never stops boiling in a show that creates mounting farcical mayhem with ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum


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