A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum / book by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove ; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; directed by John Hirsh, 1980 - performance file. 1980-81.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum / book by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove ; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; directed by John Hirsh, 1980 - performance file. 1980-81.

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Centrestage Theatre Archives.

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Sondheim, Stephen, 1930-2021

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Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. Sondheim started his theatre career by writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959) before becoming a composer and lyricist. Sondheim's best-known works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987)...

Toronto Arts Productions

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Hirsch, John L., 1936-....

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Gelbart, Larry

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Larry Simon Gelbart was born in Chicago, IL, Feb. 25, 1923-28 (sources vary); at age 16 he began comedy writing for radio's Maxwell House coffee times; from 1946-52, he continued writing for a variety of radio series such as Duffy's tavern (1946), Command performance (1946-47), and The Bob Hope show (1949-52); started writing for television in 1950 and worked on shows including The Red Buttons show and Caesar's television comedy hour; started his career playwriting in the early 1960s with the th...

Shevelove, Burt

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