The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- April 18, 1996
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 715
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- St. James Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 33rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it4 named
4 of these 4 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters9 roles recorded
Nathan Lane Prologus/ Pseudolus
Jim Stanek Hero
Jessica Boevers Philia
Mark Linn-Baker Hysterium
Lewis J. Stadlen Senex
Mary Testa Domina
Ernie Sabella Marcus Lycus
Philip Quast Miles Gloriosus
William Duell Erronius
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Jerry Zaks
- Choreographer
- Rob Marshall
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
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. Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (254–184 BC), specifically Curculio, 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 plot displays many classic elements of farce, including puns, the slamming of doors, comedy of mistaken identity (frequently involving characters disguising themselves as one another), and satirical comments on social class. The title derives from a line…
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for A Funny Thing... Forum (1996 Revival) at all.
- When it closed.
- No show page for A Funny Thing... Forum (1996 Revival). The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.