Hijinks Galore at Apple Hill Playhouse's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"

Pittsburgh in the Round: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is one of those shows that vividly proves that the Greco-Romans of the B.C. era really knew how to live with drama nerd flair. This seems like a pretty patently provable claim if you think about it—consider the pompous flamboyance of gladiator fights; think of the wild histrionics of Sextus and his friends in our Ecce Romani textbooks. So, when Stephen Sondheim (of course) created the quintessentially bonkers musical A Funny Thing.., he was really showing the Romans in their best, gaudiest light.