Songs From a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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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