A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: musicals we love
A marvel of gleefully saucy yet wholly innocent farce that leaves you spent from laughter and humming a catchy tuneNineteen sixty-two was too late for vaudeville, and surely the Roman comedies of Plautus were known only by Latin academics. But with the debut of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, these two great comedy epochs were inextricably linked right from the first notes of "Comedy Tonight,&quo…