Word: pseudolus
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...York's Via Magna Alba. Ten years ago, Burt Shevelove's and Larry Gelbart's free adaptation of Plautus' plays convulsed playgoers for 964 performances. At that time Zero Mostel pranced onstage like an elephant with a hotfoot in the star ring role of Pseudolus, a slave with a passion for freedom as avid as that of all 1 3 original colonies. He was gloriously funny, and in this revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo rum, Phil Silvers is every wit his equal...
...Pseudolus' young master Hero (John Hansen) is piteously in love with the beauteous virgin Philia (Pamela Hall). If Pseudolus can secure her for Hero, he will receive his freedom. The plot tangles, twists, thickens, quickens, down alleys and up roofs, through brothels of spicy beauties and manses of spiky matrons, leaving behind a car nage of laugh-splintered ribs. Salve, Forum, et in arena hilaritatis! lo triumphe...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Director Richard Lester's screen version of the Broadway hit is fussy and frenetic, but Comedian Zero Mostel saves the play as Pseudolus, a conniving, overstuffed Roman slave who would sell his own soul to buy his freedom...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Director Richard Lester's screen version of the Broadway hit is fussy and frenetic, but Comedian Zero Mostel saves the play as Pseudolus, a conniving, overstuffed Roman slave who would sell his own soul to buy his freedom...
...prerequisites for getting boffs. But you laugh hardest when the pace is fastest, and it moves like the Marx Brothers whenever Steve Kaplan, Arthur Friedman, Robert Bush, (or any combination of them), are on stage. Kaplan is the funniest Roman of them all, and he plays the conniving lead, Pseudolus, with deadly timing, a rubber face, a protean voice, and a Stoic endurance of pratfalls. His is a virtuoso performance, and at one point his delivery of a line stops the show cold. When he sings, there is Merman in his voice, or Rudy Vallee, or whatever will milk...