Question: Which film was released first, Manson or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon?

Context articles: Astronauts Gone Wild
Isla Blair
Greg Carey (voice actor)
Zero Mostel
Finishing the Hat
Milton Rosenstock
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon
Manson (film)
Richard Williams (animator)

Astronauts Gone Wild: Investigation Into the Authenticity of the Moon Landings is a 2004 documentary film produced and directed by Bart Sibrel, a Nashville, Tennessee-based filmmaker who charges that the six Apollo Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s were elaborate hoaxes.
 Sibrel made this film 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 film is a wordplay on the "Girls Gone Wild" video series.
Isla Blair (born 29 September 1944) is an Anglo-Scottish 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".
Greg Carey is an Australian-born voice actor known for his role as "Hun" in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".
 Carey joined the Charles Sturt University theatrical production, in Bathurst, New South Wales.
 Carey started acting in 2001 in "Are you Game?"
, a University project.
 He became a stage manager for "One Thumb Out" in the same production facility in 2002.
 He starred in the same year as "Miles Gloriosus" in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", another University project.
 He's also re-done The United Negro College Fund famous tag "A mind is a terrible thing to waste".
Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977) was an American actor and comedian of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in "Fiddler on the Roof", Pseudolus on stage and on screen in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", and Max Bialystock in the original film version of "The Producers".
 Mostel was a student of Don Richardson, using an acting technique based on muscle memory.
 He was blacklisted during the 1950s, and his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee was well-publicized.
 He was an Obie Award and three-time Tony Award winner.
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes is a book by American musical theatre composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
 The book contains Sondheim's lyrics from his first professionally staged show, "Saturday Night" (1954) through "West Side Story", "", "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "Anyone Can Whistle", "Do I Hear a Waltz?
", "Company", "Follies", "A Little Night Music", "The Frogs", "Pacific Overtures", "", and ending with "Merrily We Roll Along" (1981), stopping just short of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Sunday in the Park with George" (1984) which contains the song from which the title of the book is taken.
Milton Rosenstock (June 9, 1917, New Haven, Connecticut - April 24, 1992, New York City) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger.
 Trained at the Juilliard School, he was highly active as a musical director for Broadway musicals from 1942 through 1980; serving in that capacity for 29 productions, including the original productions of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1949), "Can-Can" (1953), "Bells Are Ringing" (1956), "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off" (1962), "Oliver!
" (1963), "Funny Girl" (1964), and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (1972).
 He also composed the music for the 1973 revue "Nash at Nine" and worked as musical supervisor for the 1989 production of "Meet Me in St. Louis"; the latter of which was his last project on Broadway.
 In 1948 he won the Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director for "Finian's Rainbow".
 He was nominated twice more for that award: for "The Vamp" (1956) and the original Broadway production of "" (1960).
 He served as the music director of the Lyric Chamber Theater during the 1960s and was the music director of the American Ballet Theatre during the late 1960s.
 From 1981 until his death eleven years later of heart disease he was principal conductor of the Dance Theater of Harlem.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film)
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 critic of the Apollo program and 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.
Manson is a documentary film made in 1973 about Charles Manson and his followers.
 It was directed by Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick.
Richard Edmund Williams (born March 19, 1933) is a Canadian–British animator, voice artist, and writer, best known for serving as animation director on Disney/Amblin's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and for his unfinished feature film "The Thief and the Cobbler".
 He was also a film title sequence designer and animator; his most famous works in this field included the title sequences to "What's New, Pussycat?
" (1965) and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (1966) and title and linking sequences in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968).
 He also animated the eponymous cartoon feline for two of the later "Pink Panther" films.