A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.
Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus( 251–183 BC), specifically" Pseudolus Miles", and" Mostellaria", the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.
The plot displays many classic elements of farce, including puns, the slamming of doors, cases of mistaken identity( frequently involving characters disguising themselves as one another), and satirical comments on social class.
The title derives from a line often used by vaudeville comedians to begin a story:" A funny thing happened on the way to the theater".
The musical's original 1962 Broadway run won several Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Author( Musical).
" A Funny Thing" has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the stage musical, Zero Mostel.
Leon Greene
Lenard George" Leon" Greene( born 1931) is an English actor and opera singer.
At the age of 20, Greene joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and sang bass with them for just over a year.
After leaving the D'Oyly Carte, he appeared in bass roles for several productions between 1954 and 1962 with the Sadler's Wells Opera.
In 1963, he moved on to musical comedy, appearing in the West End production of" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" as the Roman captain Miles Gloriosus.
As a result of that performance, he was asked to reprise the role for the film version of the show to begin his career in films.
His films include" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"( 1966)," A Challenge for Robin Hood"( 1967)," The Devil Rides Out"( 1968)," The Squeeze"( 1977)," Flash Gordon"( 1980), and several" Carry On" comedies.
Trainee Day
Trainee Day( original title: Maman a tort) is a 2016 French- Belgian comedy- drama film written and directed by Marc Fitoussi.
It stars Émilie Dequenne and Jeanne Jestin.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a 1966 British- American DeLuxe Color musical comedy film, based on the stage musical of the same name.
It was inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus( 251–183 BC) – specifically" PseudolusMiles Gloriosus" and" Mostellaria" – and tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.
The film was directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford reprising their stage roles.
It also features Buster Keaton in his last motion picture role; Phil Silvers, for whom the stage musical was originally intended; and Lester favorites Michael Crawford, Michael Hordern and Roy Kinnear.
The musical was adapted for the screen by Melvin Frank and Michael Pertwee from the stage musical of the same name with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.
The film's cinematography was by Nicolas Roeg.
Isla Blair
Isla Blair( born 29 September 1944) is a British actress.
She made her first stage appearance in 1963 as Philia in the London debut of" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum".
Astronauts Gone Wild
Astronauts Gone
Wild: Investigation
Into the Authenticity of the Moon Landings is a 2004 documentary video produced and directed by Bart Sibrel, a Nashville, Tennessee- based video maker who charges that the six Apollo Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s were elaborate hoaxes.
Sibrel made this video as a follow- up to his 2001 video" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon", which accuses NASA of falsifying the Apollo 11 mission photography.
The title of the presentation is a wordplay on the" Girls Gone Wild" video series.
Nathan Lane
Nathan Lane( born Joseph Lane; February 3, 1956) is an American actor and writer.
He has played the roles of Albert in" The Birdcage", Max Bialystock in the musical" The Producers", Ernie Smuntz in" Mouse Hunt", Nathan Detroit in" Guys and Dolls", and Pseudolus in" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum".
His voice work includes" The Lion King" as Timon and" Stuart Little" as Snowbell, and he has played recurring roles on" Modern Family The Good Wife", and as F. Lee Bailey.
He has received three Tony Awards: he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and" The Producers" and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for" Angels in America", as well as six Drama Desk awards, six Outer Critics Circle awards, two Obies, the Lucille Lortel Award and the Laurence Olivier Award.
He has also received two Golden Globe nominations, six Primetime Emmy nominations, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Daytime Emmy Awards, and a People's Choice Award.
In 2006, Lane received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2008, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Larry Gelbart
Larry Simon Gelbart( February 25, 1928 – September 11, 2009) was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and author, most famous as a creator and producer of the television series" M*A* S*H", and as co-writer of the Broadway musicals" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and" City of Angels".
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon is a 2001 film written, produced and directed by Nashville- based filmmaker Bart Sibrel.
Sibrel is a proponent of the conspiracy theory that the six Apollo Moon landing missions between 1969 and 1972 were elaborate hoaxes perpetrated by the United States government, including NASA.
The film is narrated by British stage actress Anne Tonelson.
Love Is a Funny Thing
Love Is a Funny Thing( a.k.a. A Man I Like) is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Lelouch.

Question: Are both A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon and Trainee Day from the same country?
Answer: no