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Friends, readers, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to praise this glorious show, not to bury it.
There may have been more tuneful, more touching, more ambitious musicals than A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), but I can think of none that is more spectacularly generous when it comes to the gags.
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There's lovely work, too, from Hamish McColl as the neurotic slave Hysterium; from Harry Towb as a doddery old man in forlorn search of his missing children; and from Philip Quast as the Plautus regular, Miles Gloriosus, a vain soldier.
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