A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1972

The run closed August 12, 1972

Opened

March 30, 1972

Closed

August 12, 1972

Performances

156

Previews

3

Theatre

Lunt Fontanne Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 122nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 2 more that season

Who was in it19 named

Phil Silvers1911–1985

C

Chad Block—

R

Reginald Owen—

M

Mort Marshall1918–1979

T

Tom Poston—

Carl Ballantine
Pamela Hall
John Hansen
Carl Lindstrom
Lizabeth Pritchett
Sonja Haney
Keita Keita
Lauren Lucas
Trish Mahoney
Gloria Mills
Joe Ross
Charlene Ryan
Bill Starr
John Bentley

5 of these 19 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 14 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters9 roles recorded

Phil Silvers Prologus/ Pseudolus
John Hansen IBDB Hero
Pamela Hall Philia
Larry Blyden Hysterium
Lew Parker Senex
Lizabeth Pritchett Domina
Carl Ballantine Marcus Lycus
Cris Groenendaal Miles Gloriosus
Reginald Owen 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

Stephen Sondheim

Choreographer

Ralph Beaumont

Producer

David Black

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.

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 Happened on the Way to the Forum at all.
• No show page for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. 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.