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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
This musical takes place in the city of Rome sometime during the reign of Emperor Nero. Pseudolus (Quinton Sledge) is "the lyingest, cheatingest, sloppiest slave in all of Rome", whose only wish is to buy his freedom from his master's parents, the henpecked Senex (Jim Ford) and his dominating wife Domina (Sara Alstat). When he finds out that his master, Senex's handsome but none too smart son Hero (Trey Cockrum), has fallen in love with Philia (Emily Dixon), a beautiful virgin courtesan from the house of procurer (i.e. brothel owner) Marcus Lycus (Aaron Hopkins) next door, Pseudolus makes a deal: he will get the girl for Hero in return for his freedom. Unfortunately, the virgin has been sold to the great Roman soldier, Captain Miles Gloriosus (???), who even now is on his way from conquering Crete to claim her as his bride. Pseudolus blackmails his overseer, Hysterium (Levi Overturf) into masquerading as the corpse of Philia to fool the captain, but, as they always must in a farce, things go wrong at every turn.
In the end, the boy gets the girl; Senex's next-door neighbor Erronius (C. Barnfield) finds that Phillia and Miles Gloriosus are in fact his long lost children; and Pseudolus gets his freedom, a beautiful concubine to be his wife and a dowry of 10,000 minae, compliments of Marcus Lycus.
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LocationThe Historic Sesser Opera House
W Franklin St
Sesser, IL 62884
United States
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