A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. Inspired by the plays of Plautus, it is set in ancient Rome and follows Pseudolus, a quick-witted slave who schemes to win his freedom by helping his young master, Hero, pursue the courtesan Philia.