Blog: Everything Sondheim: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum debuted in 1962, Sondheim’s third Broadway production, but his first opportunity to be both composer and lyricist. He worked with Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, a pair of television writers with a yen for classical comedy and farce. Check out Rick Pender’s synopsis on Everything Sondheim:
SYNOPSIS
“Comedy Tonight,” written over a weekend in Washington, DC, is a knockabout number that promised a knockabout show – a promise FORUM certainly keeps.
Read Jack Viertel’s article about this famous song:
MISERY YESTERDAY, COMEDY TONIGHT