A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Previews Began: March 28, 1972
Opening Night: March 30, 1972
Closing Night: August 12, 1972
Music: Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Book: Larry Gelbart
Burt Shevelove
Pseudolus, the laziest slave in Rome, has but one wish – to purchase his freedom. When he finds out that the young master has fallen in love with a virgin in the house of Lycus, he concocts a deal whereby he will be freed if he can procure the girl for Hero.
Musical Numbers
ACT ONE
Comedy Tonight……………………..Pseudolus, Company
Love, I Hear……………………………………………………Hero
Free………………………………………………Pseudolus, Hero
The House of Marcus Lycus………….Lycus, Pseudolus
Lovely………………………………………………….Philia, Hero
Pretty Little Picture…………….Pseudolus, Hero, Philia
Everybody Ought to Have a Maid………………….Senex,
Pseudolus,
Hysterium,
Lycus
I’m Calm………………………………………………..Hysterium
Impossible…………………………………………..Senex, Hero
Bring Me My Bride………….Miles Gloriosus, Company
ACT TWO
That Dirty Old Man…………………………………….Domina
That’ll Show Him……………………………………………Philia
Lovely (Reprise)…………………….Pseudolus, Hysterium
Funeral Sequence………….Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus,
Company
Finale………………………………………………………Company
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Phil Silvers Prologus
Pseudolus
Carl Ballantine Lycus
Larry Blyden Hysterium
Pamela Hall Philia
John Hansen Hero
Carl Lindstrom Miles Gloriosus
Lew Parker Senex
Lizabeth Pritchett Domina
Chad Block Protean
Sonja Haney Geminae
Keita Keita Vibrata
Lauren Lucas Tintinabula
Trish Mahoney Geminae
Gloria Mills Panacea
Reginald Owen Erronius
Joe Ross Protean
Charlene Ryan Gymnasia
Bill Starr Protean
Understudies: arbara Brown (Philia), Patti Karr (Domina, Tintinabula, Geminae, Vibrata, Gymnasia), Patrick Spohn (Protean) and Bill Starr (Hero)
REPLACEMENTS
John Bentley Prologus
Pseudolus
Jack Collins Senex
Mort Marshall Senex
Tom Poston Prologus
Pseudolus
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