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OxAct’s ‘Forum’ opens Oct. 29

The plot centers on a slave’s attempts to win freedom by helping his master court a girl.

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Staff Report 3:52 PM Friday, October 23, 2009

The Oxford Area Community Theater production of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” directed by Bill Brewer, opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Oxford Community Arts Center.

Performances of this OxACT show continue Oct. 30 and Oct. 31 at 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 1 at 2 p.m.; Nov. 5-6 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. There is no performance Nov. 7.

“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, was the first Broadway production to boast music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical’s original 1962 Broadway won several Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Book.

Drawing most of its farcical situations directly from the plays of Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC-184 BC), the writers, hoping to give Broadway “a taste of what once convulsed ancient Roman audiences,” studied all of Plautus’ surviving comedies and then created their own original story. The plot centers around a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.

The cast includes Nora Ellen Bowers, Tom Dierling, Ben Mattox, Mike McVey, Matt Reed, Mike Robinson, Erin Schilling and many Miami students and several Talawanda High School students including Amelia Anne Bergmann, Brennan, Sam Coffey, Olivia Bentley, Sara Martin, Rachel Mattox, Kelsey Moon Hennon, Austin Smith, Bradley Walker and Megan Weaver.

Tickets, $10 senior/student and $12 general, are available at the Oxford Community Arts Center or by calling OxACT at (513) 523-6228.

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