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"Something for everyone: A comedy tonight! Nothing with gods, nothing with fate; Weighty affairs will just have to wait! Nothing that's formal, Nothing that's normal, No recitations to recite; Open up the curtain: Comedy Tonight!" Mayhem falls on ancient Rome as one slave, Pseudolus will do almost anything to gain his feedom- morals tomorrow, comedy tonight! "I think Forum is the best farce ever written. I think it makes Feydeau look like a piker.Forum is much more elegant than anything Feydeau ever wrote and much more tightly plotted, There's not a wasted moment in Forum, and the truth of the test of it is that the play is just as funny when performed by a group of high school students as it is when it is performed on Broadway. It is not never funny. The reason is, it is based on situations so solid that you cannot not laugh" -Stephen Sondheim A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum opened May 8, 1962 at the Alvin Theatre where it ran for 964 performances. It closed on August 29, 1964. Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book By Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove; Produced by Harold Prince and Directed by George Abbott. A Fuuny Things's Tony Awards include: Best Musical, Best Producer (Harold Prince), Best Book (Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove), Best Director (George Abbott) and Best Actor in a Musical (Zero Mostel). Synopsis Song-cast List Shows