A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.
Photograph from the original Broadway production
Graphic from the original Broadway cast album
Zero Mostel
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Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel was an American actor, comedian, and singer. Mostel received three Tony Awards and a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Glo
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
…A Funny Thing has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the stage musical, Zero Mostel. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened on Broadway on May 8, 1962, at the Alvin Theatre, and then transferred to the Mark Hellinger…
Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof, 1964
Mostel as Leopold Bloom in Ulysses in Nighttown in 1958
Mostel, c. 1960
Zero Mostel in 1973 on the set of the film Fore Play