Love, I Hear

Our pal Frank Ferrante, known for playing Groucho Marx, is currently playing Pseudolus in a production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia. Frank also directed this production of my favorite musical. I have not seen it yet. I will be seeing it a week from today. But the reviewer for the Philadelphia Inquirer saw it and he says "…at the end, my face muscles, diaphragm, and throat all hurt: I'd been groaning and laughing for two-hours-plus. So had a packed, delighted house. Old-fashioned, inappropriate, vulgar as can be, this Forum is about as good as the thing can be done: It's headlong, merry, madcap, paralytically funny, and full of life." That's about as good a review as you can possibly get.

If you want to take that reviewer's word for it, tickets can be ordered here. If you're there a week from tonight and you're tall, don't sit in front of me or I'll kick the back of your seat.