A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum continues at Lido2, Paris until 4 February 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Why not revive Forum which brings such joy to everyone?
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A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum – Lido2, Paris
Exclusive: Paris’ Lido2 to stage A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum
Fresh from a triumph with their opening English-language musical Cabaret, Paris’ newest theatre, the Lido2 in the Champs-Elysees, has announced its first show back following a ten-month closedown for a major makeover will be the hilarious A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum at the end of the year.
Remembering Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021), The Ultimate Musical Man of Broadway
Stephen Sondheim rewrote the history of the Broadway musical in a career lasting over 60 years. Michael Darvell looks back, show by show, at the genius that was Stephen Sondheim. It is an unquestionable fact that Stephen Sondheim was responsible for taking the rather moribund genre of the Broadway musical and breathing new life into […]
‘There are giants in the sky’: The theatre community pays tribute to Stephen Sondheim
It feels pretty impossible to find the words to sum up the kind of influence composer Stephen Sondheim had on the world of musical theatre. There was of course the way he turned the genre on its head and made changes to form and content that had never been contemplated before. Then there was the […]
‘We are all blessed to have been alive at the same time as this theatre legend’: Stephen Sondheim dies at the age of 91
The Stephen Sondheim Society’s Chairman and Musical Theatre Review contributor Craig Glenday writes: Dim the lights… Stephen Sondheim was the most innovative, most influential and most important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history. His contribution to musical theatre – and to theatre in general – is impossible to quantify, such was the variety, sophistication […]
A Crossword of Sondheimian Rhyme
Stephen Sondheim is probably theatre’s greatest living lyricist. This is a compliment he may or may not be sick of reading, especially after last month’s deluge of well-deserved 90th birthday encomiums. Either way, as a (somewhat less-acclaimed) musical theatre maker myself I know there is something every proud lyricist could never tire of: people noticing […]
Sondheim at 90: A YouTube career retrospective
Ian Bowkett writes: It is deeply unfortunate that on the 90th birthday of legendary composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim we are in the midst of a period without access to live musical theatre. However, that does make this the perfect time to scour YouTube for our favourite renditions of his songs to take us away to happier […]
London School of Musical Theatre – A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, performed by London School of Musical Theatre students at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★★★★☆ Sondheim is notoriously tricky, farce is notoriously tricky. So put them together and the resultant musical in the wrong hands can be an accident waiting to happen. At […]
