A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1996

The run closed January 4, 1998

Opened

April 18, 1996

Closed

January 4, 1998

Performances

715

Previews

35

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.

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

Who was in it30 named

Nathan Laneb. 1956

W

William Duell1923–2011

C

Cris Groenendaalb. 1948

M

Mark Linn-Baker—

Ernie Sabellab. 1949

L

Lewis J. Stadlenb. 1947

J

Jim Stanekb. 1971

Mary Testab. 1955

B

Brad Aspel—

M

Mary Ann Lamb—

S

Stephanie Pope—

L

Leigh Zimmermanb. 1969

D

David Alan Grier—

H

Holly Cruikshank—

G

Gina Ferrall—

R

Robert Fitchb. 1934

J

JoAnn M. Hunter—

D

Dick Latessa1929–2016

Jessica Boevers
Cory English
Pamela Everett
Susan Misner
Ray Roderick
Lori Werner
Whoopi Goldberg
Pascale Faye
Ross Lehman
Carol Lee Meadows
Tara Nicole
Don Stitt

18 of these 30 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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

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

Jerry Zaks

Producer

Scott Rudin

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.