Phil Silvers received a Tony in 1972 revival of this play based on Plautus
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Wikipedia  A 1972 revival premiered on Broadway, directed by co-author Burt Shevelove and starring Phil Silvers as Pseudolus (later replaced by Tom Poston), Lew Parker...
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Show History | Music Theatre International  The plot for the musical takes from several of Plautus' plays, namely ... The title of the musical is based on a popular line, "A funny thing happened on the ... In 1972, Burt Shevelove directed a revival on Broadway with sitcom star, Phil Silvers, as Pseudlous. ... The lucky winners are Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane.
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A Funny Thing... Forum - Sondheim.com - Putting it together since ...  Based on the plays of Plautus, this musical with a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart reveled in "low ... Broadway Revival (1) Info; Cast; Added Songs; Cut Songs ... Pseudolus, Phil Silvers ... 1972 Tony Awards - 3 nominations, 2 wins:.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1972) - Playbill  ... courtesan Philia, who is betrothed to the egotistical soldier Miles Gloriosus, in this musical farce based on the plays of Plautus. ... Musical. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Playbill - March 1972 ... Phil Silvers .... Tony Award...
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J! Archive - Show #370, aired 1986-02-07  Coppola based his Vietnam war epic, "Apocalypse Now", on "Heart of Darkness" by .... Phil Silvers received a Tony in 1972 revival of this play based on Plautus...
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The Odd Couple - Wikipedia  The Odd Couple is a play by Neil Simon. Following its premiere on Broadway in 1965, the characters were revived in a successful 1968 film and 1970s...
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Please Enjoy the Following Sample - Samuel French  formance of the play to Samuel French, Inc., at 45 W. 25th Street, New York, ... THE ODD COUPLE, by Neil Simon, directed by Mike .... I told you that when I sat down. SPEED. Don't cry, Vinnie. You're forty-two ... and green sandwiches . ... What's the green? OscAR. It's either very new cheese or very old meat. MURRAY.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - The Cappies ...  Apr 19, 2013 ... Nerinx Hall ... Pseudolus (Mario Meyer), with his powerful stage presence and ability to ... He and the chief slave Hysterium (Evan Turek) made a great team, and ... house, made his character memorable with his comedic performance. ... and Larry Gelbart, the musical opened on Broadway in May of 1962.
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Billing - | Music Theatre International  We are next introduced to the Proteans, three actors who will be playing many ... Hero tells Pseudolus that he is in love with a girl from the house of Lycus. .... Pseudolus tells the soldiers that his name is really Pseudolus Marcus Lycus and ..... 1996 - Best Revival Of A Musical, Winner (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to...
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Off Broadway Revivals for the Playwright John van Druten - The ...  Feb 12, 2014 ... John van Druten, a mid-20th-century playwright of romantic comedies, ... John, you probably hadn't looked at the play in 20 years, and you are...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Wikipedia  1996 Broadway 2004 Royal National Theatre 2009 Hong Kong 2009 Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2012 Melbourne. Awards, Tony Award for Best Musical  Tony Award for Best Author (Musical). A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by .... The show won two Tony Awards, Best Leading Actor in a Musical for Silvers,...
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Theater Review: In "Merrily We Roll Along," A Sondheim Musical ...  Feb 15, 2012 ... In its revival of the 1981 Merrily We Roll Along, the Encores! series resurrects a ... (MORE: Does Broadway Hate Stephen Sondheim?) ... Miranda, the star and Tony-winning composer of In the Heights) had written some hit ... It turned out they were the right age for their characters at the end of the show but...
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Annie Get Your Gun - Pinterest  There's no people like show people they smile when they are low. .... Annie Get Your Gun Broadway revival with Bernadette Peters and an 80s tour ... Annie Get Your Gun (1999 Broadway Revival Cast) First Musical You Saw on Broadway. ... Broadway musicals: Annie (1977) I'm not the biggest fan, but I always say that in...
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Act 2: 1956, and all that - Act 2's 50-ish plays since 1956.  In this blog we're going to look at 25 plays which are worth a read from 1956 ... was hardly revolutionary (though it did act as a brilliant parody counter-point ... In reality they are both hostages in a country, Northern Ireland , which is not their own. .... Hunt of the Sun (1964), Equus (1973) and Amadeus (1979) by Peter Shaffer.
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jeopardy/3670_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ROMAN EMPIRE | [Audio] A 1962 B'way hit featuring the following was based on the comedies of this Roman playwright: | Plautus. right: Wrong: Harvey: Who is...
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Wendy Wasserstein Dies at 55; Her Plays Spoke to a Generation ...  Jan 31, 2006 ... "She was known for being a popular, funny playwright, but she was also a woman ... It opened on Broadway in 1993, ran for 556 performances and was ... Less successful was her 1997 play, "An American Daughter," inspired by ... When Ms. Wasserstein won the best-play Tony for "Heidi Chronicles," it was...
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Grease | Samuel French  Note on Digital Perusal: Samuel French's new digital perusal process grants easy, digital ... 1972 Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical
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Review/Theater - 'Threepenny Opera,' With Sting - NYTimes.com  Published: November 6, 1989 ... Not that the star's Macheath should be put on the gallows as the scapegoat for all the ... Like Richard Foreman, who staged the blistering 1976 revival with Raul Julia, ... It says much about this production that the neighboring ''Sweeney Todd,'' a musical influenced by Weill and Brecht that...
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The Old Globe - Ranch & Coast  Apr 27, 2015 ... The Globe Players moved to San Diego from Chicago where they had .... This was partly because of his intense nervousness when he appeared on stage. ..... The three produced in 1957 were The Tempest, King Lear, and one that ... Jon Voight joined the company as Romeo in the 1966 production of...
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1999 Tony Winner: Death of a Salesman (Revival, Play) | Playbill  Jun 6, 1999 ... The Goodman Theatre production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman has won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. The production...
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Plautus - Wikipedia  Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254  184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of Latin ... The chief manuscript of Plautus is a palimpsest, in which Plautus' plays had...