We saw A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum which I had never seen, or heard of, and knew nothing about.
It was really good! I was excited because I figured it’s hard to go wrong with a Roman comedy but MAN it surpassed my expectations.
Once again, a show that had some kids in the audience that really, really should not have but it wasn’t as funny this time (when we saw Young Frankenstein the poor boy in front of us was there with his grandmother and was mortified that she was laughing at Dirty Jokes)
So actually the guy who was supposed to play the lead role was unable to do so because open air theater + allergies = bad times and he lost his voice.
So they called the guy who played Scuttle in The Little Mermaid like “hey, how do you feel about doing a role you’ve never done, after you’ve already spent three weeks working your ass off for us, and have only 4 days to learn your part” and he apparently was just like, “yeah, okay, sounds good”.
So he had a script for a lot of the musical but he didn’t need the script for the whole thing which, honestly, impressive. (he even worked in a joke where he had a line like “I can’t read!” and then turned to the audience and said “except for my script, of course”. He did a really good job though. All in all, a great night!
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