|
As A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is revived at the National Theatre, writer Larry Gelbart reveals how he and Stephen Sondheim had to go back two thousand years to find an ingredient that had gone missing from the Broadway musical
A mere two and a half millennia separated the two fora; the original sprouting up in Rome, in the vicinity of the Capitoline and Palatine hills; the other opening on Broadway, in the vicinity of the Capitol and Palace theatres.
© Telegraph Group Limited