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...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...
This musical comedy is set in pagan Rome and is lewdly adapted from the plays of Plautus, who should really have been named Sub-Plautus. He was a genius at inventing endless slapsticky plot complications. The story is that Pseudolus (Zero Mostel), a slave, will be granted his freedom if he can secure as his master's bride a dumb blonde virgin (Preshy Marker) who has completed her basic training as a courtesan. After a dilatory start, George Abbott's pell-mell direction crosscuts from the chaste to the chase. Pseudolus must foil all the males...
Aphorisms Like Petals. The man inside all these textiles has a stupendous ego, and the only characters who come near him in all of fiction are Spenser's Braggadochio and Plautus' Braggart Warrior. "If I didn't have an enormous ego and a monumental pride, how in hell could I be a performer?'' he explains. With something for everybody, he is kind, generous, rude and stubborn, explosive, impulsive, bright and mischievous. He is an outgoing, flamboyant man to whom privacy is sacred. Now he is snapping out wisecracks. Now he is sitting alone, quietly unapproachable...