There are no built sets, but it’s easy to imagine a street in Rome because the book and songs make it happen. Lilies, with a rich lighting design from Scott Guenther. This almost-fully staged production is orchestrated with the complete original script and songs, handsomely costumed by Megan A. “In Concert,” as the program notes point out, is not just actors reading a script and singing around a piano.
Burt Shrevelove and Larry Gelbart cooked up the bawdy joke-packed book, based on comedies of the Roman playwright Plautus, with lots of vaudeville turns stirred in for good measure. Stephen Sondheim wrote the score and the witty lyrics, his first as both composer and lyricist. Lyric’s rich 16-piece orchestra, the exuberant 26-member cast, and some happy high-comedy dance numbers all fill the grand old stage with the red velvet curtain for the company’s latest show: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the 1962 Broadway musical farce that still has audiences laughing and cheering. Talk about matchmaking: The classy Lyric Stage at the gilded, glorious Majestic Theater is a marriage made in musical heaven.
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