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...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Initially conceived by Plautus and cunningly performed by Zero Mostel, his fellow clowns and six delectable houris, this zany burlesquerie is good for high, low, and furrowed brows...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. This musical marriage of vaudeville and burlesque has been gamily adapted from Plautus; the girls owe their best lines to nature; and Zero Mostel is master of the hilarious revels...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. This musical marriage of vaudeville and burlesque has been lewdly adapted from Plautus; the girls owe their best lines to nature; and Zero Mostel is master of the hilarious revels...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum stars Zero Mostel as a Roman slave in a racy adaptation of the plays of Plautus. Classic vaudeville and burlesque routines give this musical a high hilarity quotient, and six near nudettes prance appealingly amid the golden corn...
Lust makes this particular world go round, and Zero Mostel is its comic axis. Seemingly composed of double chins that reach to his knees, Mostel is a paradoxically dainty and light-footed man whose humors merge the ballet with the pratfall. Whether he is rolling his eyes like berserk marbles, mincing archly in his tunic, or playing tick tack toe on the bare midriff of Lucienne Bridou (the nubilest Roman of them all), Mostel tickles playgoers into eruptive laughter. The show's music lacks distinction, but no one will seriously think of humming once the cast...