A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway triumph was the first for which he contributed the score after his astounding successes as lyricist for Gypsy and West Side Story. Co-written by Larry Gelbart, A Funny Thing happened on the Way to the Forum remains one of the funniest musical comedies ever in a topsy-turvy plot drawn from the great comedies of Plautus involving romance, deception, temptation, mistaken identity, and an almost human sacrifice. All this and singing and dancing too.