A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
Directed by Richard Lester
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
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Kudos is also in order for how deftly the project's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" comic tone has been combined with traditional Disney life lessons for little folks.
But its tone is the borscht-belt burlesque of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum."
Throughout the genre's history, musicals have often used actors who were barely serviceable singers to deliver songs—Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, and Rod Steiger in Oklahoma (to name a handful).