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Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart and Stephen Sondheim had become disgruntled with the fact that Broadway's musical comedies where proficient on show stopping tunes, but inept when it came to humour.
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Hamish McColl as Hysterium is hysterical as the slave endlessly manipulated by Pseudolus, especially when he is persuaded to dress as the virgin Philia - watching him trying to imitate girlish charms while pretending to be a corpse is a moment of farcical delight. Philip Quast is equally amusing as the thick-headed muscle bound roman soldier Miles Gloriosus especially in the scene where Gloriosus mourns the death of Philia.
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