Based on the plays of Plautus, this musical with a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, the plot concerns a young hero, named Hero, who has fallen in love with a courtesan from next door. He promises freedom to his slave, Pseudolus, in exchange for the girl. A Funny Thing is out of the ordinary in that the songs' function is not to advance the plot or to illuminate character, but rather to give the audience a vaudevillian break from the breakneck pace of the farcical plot. Includes the songs "Comedy Tonight" and "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid."

Performance Schedule

May 2004

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
9	10	11	12	13 8:00 pm	14 8:00 pm	15 8:00 pm
16 2:00 pm	17	18	19	20 8:00 pm	21 8:00 pm	22 8:00 pm Sold Out!

The days in the calendar are color-coded:

White	Plenty of seats were available
Yellow	A popular performance, but seats were available
Red	A very popular show, very few seats were available

Directed by Dave Ludt, with musical direction by Jeff Kempskie, the cast of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum included

Pseudolus	Michael Lapomardo
Hero	Ari Lew
Senex	Joel Hersh
Domina	Lela Male
Marcus Lycus	Ron Parello
Hysterium	John Bausch
Miles Gloriosus	Nick Adams
Philia	Grace Sumner
Erronius	John Gorgone
Proteans	Doug Beller, Alex Channell, Ken Gagne
Courtesans:
Tintinnabula	Jane Becker
Panacea	Crystal Collins
Geminae Twins	Lauren Bailey, Nattie Kirsch
Vibrata	Sara Williams
Gymnasia	Kristin Buma

Check out some promotional pictures of the Forumites.

Thanks to the Worcester Telegram for a kind review (subscription required) in the 18 May edition on page C5.

Here is the online edition of the Program (900kb).    (Adobe Acrobat reader is required.)