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Staff Report Updated 8:51 PM Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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

The play, written by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, was the first Broadway production to feature both music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Drawing farcical situations directly from the plays of Titus Maccius Plautus, the writers studied all of Plautus’ surviving comedies and 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. It is stage managed by Mel Brenner, Miami senior theatre major and arts management minor.

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

Tickets, $12 for adults and $10 for students and seniors, are available at the Oxford Community Arts Center from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., or may be reserved by calling OxACT at (513) 523-6228.