Talk:A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Early comments
How did the show win the award for Best Musical without being nominated? Tuf-Kat
 * As I read it, the score wasn't nominated, though the show was (and won)


 * I came here to ask the exact same question, so it's a structural problem with the sentence ("score" is too far away from Tony Award). I revised; if you don't like my revisions, do something else but the original is not clear enough. Moncrief 02:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

could someone please check these modifications http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Funny_Thing_Happened_on_the_Way_to_the_Forum&diff=30732321&oldid=29977789 on the article? they come from a user with a big history os sneaky vandalism. algumacoisaqq 14:23, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The ip adress goes to a school district so the most likely possibility is that the edits were made from computers accessable to the entire student body. The addres has been blocke due to vandalisim several times however, that does not mean that these edits were not made in good faith. If the information is correct and you feel that it would add to the article, please feel free to add it.--omtay38 04:22, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

The information added from the school district is correct. Also, I corrected the list of generic characters portrayed by the Proteans. I played that part once. :-) Waynesewell 13:35, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Modified the synopsis. The house of Marcus Lycus is not a brothel. No one is allowed to walk in and pay for sex with one of the girls. The girls are for sale. You buy one outright and she belongs to you. The sex takes place at your house. Waynesewell (talk) 03:50, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Split
I support splitting the page and creating a separate article for the motion picture. Annie D 03:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed. However, I don't think we need a disambig page.  The film should be at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film) and the musical should stay where it is with a disambig line at the top.  &mdash;  Music Maker  19:50, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

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Up Pompeii!
Up Pompeii! would seem to be directly inspired by a Funny Thing, but is there evidence for this suspicion? HarryAlffa (talk) 17:33, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Frankie Bowers played the lead in the original west end production and the producers of Up Pompeii wrote the show for him after seeing it. Tramboy69 (talk) 18:21, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Wrong Link
The internal link for Lew Parker goes to some West Virginia politician. Should the link just be eliminated? What's the usual procedure? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Missivonne (talk • contribs) 04:08, 5 July 2010 (UTC)


 * The usual practice is either to pipe the link and insert an appropriate parenthesis (in this case Lew Parker (actor)|Lew Parker) or to remove the square brackets if a future article seems unlikely to be created. As Lew Parker had a recurring role in That Girl a putative link seems appropriate. There is no consensus among Wikipedians as to whether red links are desirable. See Manual of Style (linking). Philip Cross (talk) 08:59, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Link rot
Per the link rot template, I intend to provide the needed info for the refs, although not using "cite" templates or the "reflist" tool (I am not very good at using those automated tools). This may take a few days, possibly through Aug 18 due to other interests/activities/etc. See also the discussion of this link rot template at "Koavf" ([]) "Resolved:AWB access has been removed pending further discussion; Koavf indicated other editors are free to exercise BRD on this series of edits and that he would be refocusing efforts elsewhere. Further administrative action does not seem necessary; editorial actions may be discussed elsewhere." dated 16August 2011.JeanColumbia (talk) 17:45, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Finished with formatting the references (as best I could). I will look carefully at this article again on or after Aug 18 (prior to removing the link rot template) if no one else gets to it.JeanColumbia (talk) 18:45, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

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Title references.
The title is not referenced by 'many things' and is not referenced by Marvel. The show itself gets islts name from the phrase 'a funny thing happened on the way to the theatre', a phrase commonly used by vaudeville comics to start anecdotes Tramboy69 (talk) 18:20, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Fellow blacklist member
Please explain this allusion. 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:9992:7403:FBFC:6454 (talk) 07:13, 28 May 2019 (UTC)