A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

• Original Broadway Production (1962)
  New York, NY
• London Production (1963)
  London, England
• National Tour (1963)
  USA
• Australian Production (1964)
  Australia
• Film Version (1966)
  unknown location
• Broadway Revival (1972)
  New York, NY
• London Revival (1986)
  London, England
• Off-Broadway Revival (1991)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1996)
  New York, NY
• London Revival (1999)
  London, England
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  Covent Garden Festival Concert (2001)
  London, England
• Royal National Theatre Production (2004)
  London, England
• Australian Revival (2012)
  Melbourne, Australia

There are a total of 30 productions in Ovrtur's database.

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• Original score

  • Comedy Tonight
  • Love, I Hear
  • Free
  • The House of Marcus Lycus
  • Lovely
  • Pretty Little Picture
  • Everybody Ought to Have a Maid
  • I'm Calm
  • Impossible
  • Bring Me My Bride
  • That Dirty Old Man
  • That'll Show Him
  • Funeral Sequence and Dance
    • a.k.a. Dirge
    • a.k.a. Funeral Sequence

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• Cut prior to New York previews

  • Love is in the Air

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• Cut during tryout

  • Your Eyes Are Blue
  • Echo Song

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• Cut before the first performance

  • The House of Marcus Lycus (ii)

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• Cut during rehearsals

  • I Do Like You

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• Cut before rehearsals

  • Happy Endings
  • Invocation
  • The Window Across the Way
  • What Do You Do With a Woman?
  • Friends
  • Think of Yellow Daisies
  • Miles Gloriosus
  • There's Something About a War
  • The Gaggle of Geese

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• Added to 1972 revival

  • Farewell

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• Demo/Studio Cast (unknown year) - audio
• Composer Demo (unknown year) - audio

Based on three plays by Plautus: Miles Gloriosus, Pseudolus, and Mostellaria.

According to the book Stephen Sondheim by Martin Gottfried, the first choice for the lead was Phil Silvers.  When Silvers turned it down, it was announced with Milton Berle as the star.  The same source also states that Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart wrote nearly a dozen versions of the script before settling on the one that was produced on Broadway.

• Amor al Revés es Roma (Mexican title)
• Miles Gloriosus (source material)
• Mostellaria (source material)
• The Plautus Project (working title)
• Pseudolus (source material)