A Funny Thing Happened Original Broadway

Show Details

Music

Stephen Sondheim(695)

Lyrics

Stephen Sondheim(695)

Book

Larry Gelbart(7), Burt Shevelove(13)

Type

Musical

Premiere

May 8, 1962

Recordings

Audio Recordings

		A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 1962 Original Broadway Cast
		Amor al revés es Roma - 1963 Original Mexican Cast
		A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 1963 Original London Cast
		A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 1966 Film Soundtrack
		A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum... in Jazz - 1996 Trotter Trio
		A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 1996 Broadway Cast

Video Recordings

Noncommercial Audio Recordings

		A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 1971 Pre-Broadway Revival Cast
		Golfos de Roma - 1995 Madrid Cast
		A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 2001 Covent Garden Festival Cast
		A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Composer's Demo

Noncommercial Video Recordings

Songs also appear on these recordings (47)

		Recording	Songs
		A Jolly Theatrical Season - 1962 Robert Morse & Charles Nelson Reilly	Everybody Ought to Have a Maid
		Sondheim Sings, Vol. 1: 1962-1972 - 1962 Stephen Sondheim	Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, Love Is in the Air, Pretty Little Picture
		J.J.'s Broadway - 1963 J.J. Johnson	Lovely
		Best of Broadway - 1966 Will Bronson Singers	Comedy Tonight
		Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - 1973 Various Artists	Love Is in the Air, Your Eyes Are Blue
		Side by Side by Sondheim - 1976 Original London Cast	Comedy Tonight, Love Is in the Air
		Songs of Sondheim - 1977 Dublin Cast	Comedy Tonight, Love Is in the Air
		A Different Side of Sondheim - 1978 Richard Rodney Bennett	I Do Like You
		Side by Side by Sondheim - 1978 Australian Cast	Comedy Tonight, Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, Love Is in the Air
		חזרה כללית - 1978 Original Israeli Cast	Comedy Tonight
		Marry Me a Little - 1981 Original Off-Broadway Cast	Your Eyes Are Blue
		A Stephen Sondheim Collection - 1982 Jackie Cain and Roy Kral	Comedy Tonight, I Do Like You, Love Is in the Air
		A Stephen Sondheim Evening - 1983 Concert Cast	Echo Song, The House of Marcus Lycus, Pretty Little Picture, There's Something About a War
		Cleo Sings Sondheim - 1987 Cleo Laine	I'm Calm
		Sings The Stephen Sondheim Songbook - 1987 Julie Wilson	I Do Like You, Love, I Hear
		Jerome Robbins' Broadway - 1989 Original Broadway Cast	Comedy Tonight
		The Madwoman Of Central Park West - 1989 Original Broadway Cast	Everybody Ought to Have a Maid
		Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall - 1992 Concert Cast	Comedy Tonight, Love, I Hear
		Putting It Together - 1993 Original Off-Broadway Cast	Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, I'm Calm, Impossible, Lovely
		Take Me to the World: Songs by Sondheim - 1994 Marc Heller	Comedy Tonight, Love, I Hear
		A Gala Concert For Hal Prince - 1995 Concert Cast	Comedy Tonight
		That's What Friends Are For - 1995 Peter Land & Robert Meadmore	Love, I Hear
		The Birdcage - 1996 Film Soundtrack	Love Is in the Air
		Sondheim: A Celebration - 1996 S.T.A.G.E. Concert	Everybody Ought to Have a Maid
		Moving On - 2000 Original London Cast	I Do Like You
		Putting It Together - 2000 Original Broadway Cast	Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, Lovely
		Lyle Sings Broadway For Kids - 2001 Lyle Cogen	I'm Calm
		Geraldine Turner Sings The Stephen Sondheim Songbook, Vol. 2 - 2002 Geraldine Turner	Pretty Little Picture
		Inside the Music - 2002 Donna McKechnie	Lovely
		The Musicality of Sondheim - 2002 Studio Cast	Lovely
		Sings Sondheim - 2002 Mandy Patinkin	Free
		Sondheim Spectacular - 2004 BBC Concert	Comedy Tonight, Overture
		The Broadway Musicals of 1962 - 2005 Town Hall Broadway by the Year Series	Comedy Tonight, Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, I'm Calm, Love, I Hear
		Lado a Lado Com Sondheim - 2005 Brasilian Cast	Comedy Tonight, Love Is in the Air
		Simply Sondheim: A 75th Birthday Salute - 2005 Concert Cast	Farewell, Love Is in the Air, Love, I Hear, Lovely
		By Side By Side By Side By Sondheim - 2007 S.T.A.G.E. Concert	Lovely
		Sunday - 2007 Samuel Schürmann	Comedy Tonight, I'm Calm
		Sondheim on Sondheim - 2010 Original Broadway Cast	Comedy Tonight, Invocation (Forget War), Love Is in the Air
		Side by Side: Sondheim Duos - 2012 Tommy Cecil & Bill Mays	Comedy Tonight
		Awakening: Live at 54 BELOW - 2013 Sierra Boggess	Lovely
		City of Strangers - 2013 A Sondheim Jazz Project	Free, Lovely
		Marry Me a Little - 2013 Off-Broadway Cast	Your Eyes Are Blue
		Move On: A Sondheim Adventure - 2018 Cyrille Aimée	Love, I Hear
		Celebrating Sondheim - 2019 New York Philharmonic	Overture
		Simply Sondheim - 2020 Signature Theatre	Impossible
		Sondheim Unplugged: The NYC Sessions Volume One - 2020 Various Artists	Everybody Ought to Have a Maid, Your Eyes Are Blue
		Sondheim Unplugged: The NYC Sessions Volume Two - 2020 Various Artists	Lovely

Songs

• Bows
• Bring Me My Bride(5)
• Comedy Tonight(24)
• Entr'acte
• Everybody Ought to Have a Maid(16)
• Exit Music
• Finale (Comedy Tonight)(5)
• Free(8)
• Funeral Sequence(5)
• I'm Calm(10)
• Impossible(8)
• Love, I Hear(14)
• Lovely(18)
• Lovely (Reprise)(5)
• Overture(6)
• Pretty Little Picture(9)
• That Dirty Old Man(6)
• That'll Show Him(5)

Added Later

• Farewell(2)
  • Written for 1971 Los Angeles Production.

Cut Song

• Echo Song(3)
  • Restored in some productions.
• Free (First Version)
• The Gaggle of Geese
• The House of Marcus Lycus(4)
  • Restored in some productions.
• I Do Like You(5)
• Invocation (Forget War)(2)
  • Cut song. Later revised as Invocation and Instructions to the Audience.
• Love Is in the Air(11)
  • Music used for the underscore.
• There's Something About a War(2)
• Window Across the Way
  • Unfinished.
• Your Eyes Are Blue(6)
  • Also known as "Love Song."

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