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...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. “Something for everyone, a comedy tonight!” Cabot House Musical Theatre presents Stephen Sondheim??s irreverant farce, widely regarded as one of the funniest musicals of all time. Inspired by Plautus’s “The Menaechmi,” which was presented by the Harvard Classical Club last month, “Forum” goes back to the very start of drama to utterly disparage it. The plot is simple: a slave seeking his freedom helps his young master...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. “Something for everyone, a comedy tonight!” Cabot House Musical Theatre presents Stephen Sondheim??s irreverant farce, widely regarded as one of the funniest musicals of all time. Inspired by Plautus’s The Menaechmi, which was presented by the Harvard Classical Club last month, “Forum” goes back to the very start of drama to utterly disparage it. The plot is simple: a slave seeking freedom helps his young master get the girl of his dreams. Then...
Required reading for Harvard’s Classics concentrators, The Menaechemi has always been one of the most popular of the Roman comedies, inspiring Stephen Sondheim??s award-winning musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the recently revived The Boys From Syracuse and even Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors...
...Club’s production of Plautus’ ancient Roman comedy. A provocative medley of song and satire, this bawdy parade of stock characters and wild confrontations has charmed audiences for over 2000 years, providing the inspirational fodder behind Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors and Sondheim??s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. See story on page B-6. Friday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 15, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets on sale at the Harvard Box Office or by phone...
...turned to my left on this couch—and there was this landmass! But he was an unbelivably beautiful spirit”); others inquired about the impact of his Jewish upbringing on his career (“Acting is my religion”). Indeed, Patinkin quotes Steven Sondheim??s words as if they were those of the Bible, confessing, “Sonheim is Shakespeare as far as I’m concerned.” After mentioning his work with Sondheim as one of the great three collaborations of his life, Patinkin named the other...