On top of that, Jason Alexander played the role in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and he also won a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical. All three actors who have opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway have won Best Actor Tony Awards. There have been multiple Broadway revivals, in 1972 with Phil Silvers, and 1996 with Nathan Lane, and later in that run, Whoopi Goldberg. In 1962, this show satirized America’s hang-ups about sex at the beginning of the Sexual Revolution today, the show bumps up against lots of complicated questions we’ve all been asking lately, about sex, gender, and more.įORUM was nominated for eight Tony Awards and won six, including Best Musical, Best Producer, Best Book, and Best Director. Sondheim and comic playwright and screenwriter Burt Shevelove take the classical Roman comedies of Plautus, mash them up with American vaudeville, and the result is one of the great musical farces of all time, every bit as smart and subversive as Sondheim’s later shows.īe a part of this next New Line adventure by becoming a Contributing Producer! Something for Everybawdy! Master songwriter Stephen Sondheim at his wittiest and most playful!
